Sweat garage must be documented. Sweat garage is a state of mind and it's also a condition. Sweat garage is what happens when you work on your car outside in Maryland in the heat of summer. This happened last month when I was working on my sister's car.
Go outside at the hottest hour of the hottest day and the sweat will flow--just by standing there. If you're working, the flow thickens. Now this wasn't my first sweat garage. There have been others. Travis was there for the very first one. We wore two of my old baseball hats and filled the hat fabric with sweat.
If you spend time with me, you may have heard me talking about the sweat garage. Sometimes when things get good and sweaty, I will reference the sweat garage. Tribute. Respect. For everyone else, please enjoy this sweaty concept, one that was born on the hot summer streets of America and has since found a special place in my heart.
Before I write more, let's get some photos going here:
Sure it might be nice to get up early and try to get the work done before the sun is up there in the power position. But some jobs take a while. A couple rusted bolts can take hours to break free. Then you get into the heat of the day. I've gotten pretty good at dealing with the heat. If it's 105 or below, I've trained myself to think it's warm. Hot, for me, starts above 105.
Now on this day it was 103 in the shade, much hotter in the sun. This was the first time I used a sun shade umbrella in the sweat garage. I figured it was hot enough. (I held the umbrella upright by clamping it in a bicycle repair stand, worked great.)
Before I write more, let's get some photos going here:
Sure it might be nice to get up early and try to get the work done before the sun is up there in the power position. But some jobs take a while. A couple rusted bolts can take hours to break free. Then you get into the heat of the day. I've gotten pretty good at dealing with the heat. If it's 105 or below, I've trained myself to think it's warm. Hot, for me, starts above 105.
Now on this day it was 103 in the shade, much hotter in the sun. This was the first time I used a sun shade umbrella in the sweat garage. I figured it was hot enough. (I held the umbrella upright by clamping it in a bicycle repair stand, worked great.)
And when I was crawling around on the ground and walking to and from the house for tools, I could feel my heart beating good and hard. I actually worried a little about my brain. I kept drinking so much water and juice. And the sweat! Oh boy! I hadn't had a good sweat like this in years. It woke me up. By the end of this day I had soaked through several T-shirts. And when I would get down on the ground--and especially when I was on my back--my body weight would squeeze the sweat from my clothes and make a wet spot on the hard pavement. A sweaty kiss between my body and the earth.
But with the right attitude and the right pacing, a sweat garage can be a happy place. Call it sweat garage and it seems more fun. It's a concept of embracing. You get into the weirdness of the heat. The sweat flows. The work gets done. And a cool place to rest at the end of the day never felt so good.
Thanks for visiting the sweat garage.
Have fun and safe travels,
Jeff
But with the right attitude and the right pacing, a sweat garage can be a happy place. Call it sweat garage and it seems more fun. It's a concept of embracing. You get into the weirdness of the heat. The sweat flows. The work gets done. And a cool place to rest at the end of the day never felt so good.
Thanks for visiting the sweat garage.
Have fun and safe travels,
Jeff
