Maybe not Texas hot, but hot nonetheless.
I had 2 packs of doors to get through. One, a pack of 59, the other, a pack of 53. Single-family detached, one-car garages. I finished the pack of 59 in a bit under three hours. And I was soaked through. Drank 3 bottles of water on that walk. It was HOT. Except when it was breezy. The breezy was nice.
Then I went back to HQ for a meeting, looking as wilted as a corsage three days after prom. Ate a sandwich. Drank a vitamin water. Went back out into the fiery sunshine to do more doors, passing SturdyCampaignStaffer as he came back from doing nearly 100 doors ("mostly apartments").
I did another 29 in a bit over an hour and then had to stop for the day to pick up MM from the sitter's house.
I was soaked through again. Had gone through another bottle of vitamin water. I was a limp rag doll.
It was hot.
But I did 88 doors. I wish I had gotten through all 112, but I did 'em. Today it's hot again, and I'm going to finish up the last 24 from that pack I didn't finish yesterday and then I'm going to pick up another pack and get 'em done.
Because I am Mrs. Intrepid Campaigner, Queen of the Doorbells! SturdyCampaignStaffer out-canvassed me yesterday, but I WILL earn the title!
Maybe prioritize the apartments on the hottest days? Take care and happy knocking!
ReplyDelete(To the tune of "Children Go Where I Send Thee")
ReplyDeleteI go where they send me.
I know not how they send me.
Well they're gonna send me to one-car-garage single-family Detached
Lord, Lord, it's hot out there today.
you are the champion, my friend. and you'll keep on knocking, till the end....
ReplyDeletethe heat sounds really miserable. i have these cooling neck-wraps -- they look like very narrow cotton scarves, but have this gel stuff in the part that goes around the neck. interested?
also, mom sez: good for hydrating! are you wearing a hat?
v. interested in cooling neck wraps. And yes, I do wear a hat. And sunscreen!
ReplyDeleteColor me impressed.
ReplyDeleteAnd Texans tend to stay in the air conditioning rather than tromping around neighborhoods in the heat of the day. Other than that, I have no Texan wisdom. People who work outside swear you get used to it.
Here's what Chris's kids are doing in 104 degrees.
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