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A quiet day. Laundry backed up for weeks—got done. I don't know if our pond sunshield is working but it's no worse.  We woke up last night to thunder and lightning, unusual for Spokane, but when you have a day of 99 degree heat and 68% humidity (I don't even know how you get it that way except under a bell jar in sunlight) and then a forecast 85 degrees for the day following—doh! I don't know how the weather bureau both national and local missed that one, but this former Oklahoman knows how to a