Beat the Heat

[dwhitacre]

Originally Posted by TXRebel

Cold beer and a shade tree.

Originally Posted by groogs

I don't know if the cold beer helps beat the heat, but after 8 or 9 you just don't care any more.

[SIZE="5"] You know it's true!!![/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]Also, I smoke in the morning before it gets hot!!![/SIZE]

[Racer3]

No matter how you look at it anything you do in the summer is way better than trying to enjoy a cigar in the winter!!!

[fizguy]

Have a gin & tonic with the cigar. And keep a stiff upper lip. (gin & tonic is British.....never mind)

[68TriShield]

Turn on a fan.

[omajinai]

Live some place exotic (meaning very hot and very humid) for 3 or 4 years.

After several years someplace like Okinawa where in the summer and fall it is 95 degrees with 95 percent humidity by 7AM, even Texas summers don't feel ALL that bad.

It's been hotter than hades this year in Central Texas - but it's just a case of mind over matter. If its a great smoke, the heat just doesn't feel quite as hot.


Omaj

[pcozad1]

We have a jacuzzi in the winter i keep it at 103 but in the summer i like it at about 85. Sometimes I put the hose in to cool it down . Nothing better than a cigar, A drink, in the jacuzzi with jimmy buffet music on the stereo. Thats where I will be in about half an hour from right now. Pat

[Good_Stogies]

[SIZE=3]Don’t run your a/c in the summer that way when you go out side it will actually feel better…..j/k But really spending more time out in the heat will help you get used to it and make it seem not so bad. We have a screened in porch with a ceiling fan, moving air helps a lot. As others have mentioned early in the morning or later in the evening when it’s cooler and a nice cold drink all help. It really is mind over matter. Hope this helps.[/SIZE]

[cle_smoker]

I've got an enclosed back porch with an exhaust fan and lots of open windows. Of course I grew up in Mississippi and the summers in Ohio don't quite compare. So when everyone is complaining about the heat, it is just reminding me of home.

cle_smoker

[dkbmusic]

I usually do one of three things:

1) Sit outside and suffer the heat
2) Wait for the sun to set and go outsite once it has cooled off a bit
3) Smoke at the local B&M

[andrewsutherland2002]

Ok, I beat the heat. It's dark outside so I'm finally going outside to light up.


Maybe the heat beat me in reality.

[acruce]

Smoke at night with a fan

[brigey]

Originally Posted by redryno247

I remember back this winter many of the gorillas here sharing the various ways they beat the winter blues / frigid cold to still enjoy a stogie. Well, now summer is here and the heat/humidity (remember I live in IN) is about unbearable. Since I don't smoke inside the house I'm wondering how others of you beat the heat to still enjoy a stogie during the summer.

Obviously I know I could go indoors (i.e. home, B&M, bar, etc), but I'm wondering what you all do besides the obvious to beat the heat.

I envision myself in the Nicaraguan heat as I walk through the acres of tobacco leaves as they grow and cure in the shade of the country side. I think about the rollers and the pickers, and slowly sip on an ice cold beverage between puffs of my stogie!

Then I wake up in a puddle of sweat and realize it is just miserable hot outside.

Enjoy the weather, it's the only weather we get!!!

[andrewsutherland2002]

I beat the heat, but the humidity kicked my @$$! Back in and I'm dripping wet.

[neoflex]

Originally Posted by BlazinSS934

I usually go to my fire house and open up the bay doors and smoke with my buddies sitting on the front bumper of the truck

Before moving to NC, this was a common place for me to smoke.
These days I usually wait until later in the day when its cooled off which is usually 8pm or later. I have also taken to smoking in the car while either driving to or from work in the A/C.

[redryno247]

great tips everyone, helped to put a smile on my face and some resolve in my spirit. Heat be damned...where's my lighter...

(noticing I'm posting this at 10:30 pm and it's a cool 55 degrees out right now).