HOLY F***ING BALLS IT'S HOT!
THANK GOD IT'S NOT SO F***ING HOT ANYMORE!

That's pretty much it.

You must have a sturdier constitution than I, mr_l

It's pretty damn nice here the rest of the time.

Now ... we get no cool 'fall effects', and spring is kinda unexciting too ... but objectively the weather is quite nice.

Thanks! Now I know what months to visit!

Hard to keep up with garden watering during this stretch of really hot and dry weather. Front yard is brown - don't care so I don't water it. Backyard still kind of green - more shade. Between the watering and the AC, a couple of my utility bills are going to be NASTY. But I am grateful for the AC, the water, and the ability to pay for them. I have to be frugal in other areas but that's OK. I find peace and joy in my garden, my meals abound with fresh produce, and because there is enough for freezing and canning, I will be enjoying "my local" produce this winter. Go Bucks!

We’re going to have some nasty utility bills here, too. Mr. O does a great job keeping the garden watered so we have fresh, organic, veggies. My flowers, I think, are almost dead. They kind of just disintegrated from the heat ... we have a small-ish house on 3 acres so it’s our little refuge.

89. We have a breeze now and it is comfortable on the porch a couple hours ago it was unberable. Supposed to be severe thunderstorms moving through in a hour or so.
The good thing the tomatoes are ripening nothing like an Ohio homegrown tomato.

though. Winters are like 10 years apart now.

Winters nowadays are pretty much just a long, endless, stretch of cold, gray, drizzle. Not much picture-postcard pretty white snow and bright blue sky any more. Unless it’s May .... lol

Roll their eyes every time my husband and I break out the stories about The Blizzard of ‘77-‘78.

I was a student in an apartment at Kent State back then. Fun times! The wind was so strong it blew out the picture window in the apartment across the courtyard. Buildings were so flimsy, the wind blew a fine coating of snow INSIDE my bedroom through the cracks in between the window and the wall. Snow up to the top of highway overpasses ... truckers up on the tops of their rigs, stranded.... oh gosh don’t get me started.