Sunday...

We have had an incredibly easy summer this year, in terms of heat and humidity. Many days the temperature has only gone to 91 degrees, with humidity at fifty percent or less. For this area, that's remarkable.

The year we came here and built this house, in the summer of 1980, the heat and humidity were just unbearable. We lived in a small rented trailer in a local trailer park, and had to keep three floor fans blowing on the refrigerator just to be sure it would keep running. The crew of men b...