Too Damn Hot

The heat-and-humidity wave up here has drained the energy out of most of us, at least those who don't exist in air-conditioned environments. Saturday wasn't too bad, but Sunday was sweltering, and I had to go to a work bee at the community garden between 10 and 12. That just about did me in, though I had a pretty good time talking to people and chopping up weeds for compost. At one point I just sprayed myself with the hose. I'm glad I wasn't at church singing up in the organ loft, it must have been unbearable.

We always teeter between installing our bedroom air conditioner or not; usually these heat waves don't last too long, and we manage to sleep with a fan blowing on us. At the studio we just have fans, no matter what. Right now it's 3:30 pm and we're ready to call it a day. Yesterday one of my FB friends posted that her dinners had really taken a nose dive: she was having a gin-and-tonic and a Blizzard. I didn't know what the latter was: turns out it's a Dairy Queen treat of soft ice cream with mix-ins like Oreo cookies. Whatever: cold and wet and anesthetizing sounds pretty good to me!