Anyone else get totally exhausted from being out in the sun?

[undeterred]

Half hour outside in the summer sun and I am just worn out. I just slept for 3 hours in the middle of the day!

[Orsino]

1. It is tiring.

I remember that as a child, I would get very sleepy after a sunburn.

[bigwillq]

2. I do.

I was out for about three hours today covering a baseball game. I am beat.

[NMDemDist2]

3. sounds like mild dehydration

drink a quart of water, you'll feel better

[Skittles]

4. exhausted, sunburned and, without sunglasses, a severe headache n/t

[undeterred]

5. The sun kicks your ass.

[Skittles]

9. yup, which is why I don't tango with it

I work all night :D

[reyd reid reed]

6. I do.

Then, to make things even more interesting, I worked until after midnight last night (Dodgers just haaaaad to go extras) then got up at 5 a.m. to go fishing, of all things. Sat out at the reservoir -- in the hot sun -- from 6:30 until about 1:30...and then had to run a few errands, pick up a kid and now...I'm back at work until about midnight again. And tomorrow morning it's up bright and early again to go to the Renaissance Festival again.

[Breeze54]

7. I get sweaty, bitchy, thirsty and tired.

I don't like it anymore, like I did when I was younger.

[undeterred]

8. When I was a teen I laid out in the sun for hours

"working" on my tan. I can't fathom doing that now. I walked my dog in the woods today and while he was resting in the shade I was standing in the sun talking to a friend. I was drinking water the whole time but I feel like I've been baked.

[Lorien]

10. Yep, I've always had the same conditiion. So does one of my aunts

I really don't know what causes it though. :shrug:

One side benefit; I'm 43 and still no wrinkles or concerns about skin cancer.

[amerikat]

18. My cats are also feeling the heat, are yours

They deal with it the best they can.......and have no weather channel to know when the heat will break. They do as they have always done.

[Lorien]

19. Since I live in Florida I have air conditioning, and they only go

outside on a leash (too many bugs, diseases, and dangers here). When hurricane Charley hit my home I was without power for two weeks in August. Poor Oberon was panting all the time, so I had to shave the pussy! He hated the bath and trim, but he felt much better after it was over.

Puck on a "walkie":




Oberon a few weeks post trim:

[amerikat]

20. He is beautiful.

as I have said before. He's stately and eloquent.

[Inchworm]

11. Makes me want to drink

so I generally pass out before tired or exausted sets in. :P

:hi:

[TrogL]

12. I was out all day

Got some sun.

Read several books.

Talked to the next door neighbour about our mushroom infestation.

Mowed the lawn.

Weedeated.

Petted the outdoor cat.

Let the indoor cat have a few minutes outdoors (where she promptly ate some grass then demanded to be let indoors to barf all over the kitchen).

[TK421]

13. Over-exposure to the frigging sun makes me cranky, tired, and violent

I can't STAND sweating to the point where it's rolling into my eyes and my clothes are sticking to my body.....and if there is anyone who actually likes that, I think they are mentally ill.

[undeterred]

16. My dad loved the desert sun.

When I was a kid our family would take these long driving vacations. I remember when we went through states like Nevada and Arizona we would have all the windows rolled down but still be sweaty. Dad loved it and the rest of us couldn't wait till we got to an air conditioned restaurant/hotel. He had a bit of Sioux indian heritage so I figure that had something to do with it. Too diluted by my mothers genes to affect me.

[skooooo]

14. Yep, even from driving sometimes.

[Left Is Write]

15. Yes.

[amerikat]

17. It was just brutal here in upstate NY

Don't even have to lift a muscle to break a sweat. I took 3 showers today. By the time you're dry you need another shower. My favorite season fall, will arrive just in time, as it always does. I do so love change of seasons.

6 months from now I will probably complain about all the snow.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Yes, I can't do yard work for very long at all.

Fifteen minutes and I start running in the house throwing up saliva.
Have to stop, and drink iced tea with sugar and cool off.

Hell, last week I watered and fertilized my one pot of petunias, my one jade plant, and three pots of alstromeria. That took fifteen minutes and I got sick and had to run inside.

Heat and humidity is a deadly mix. Getting sick just from being outside and pulling a few weeds is strenuous even in the evening near dark, due to the heat and humidity.

I'll have to hire a gardener.

Hubby uses the riding lawnmower in the country and that gives him a breeze. He still has to come in a rest, especially with the push (but powered) mower.