Five Things Friday

Indian summer in SoCal. It sounds rather nice at first, with visions of balmy beach days and barbecues and frozen drinks with umbrellas in October, but I think I can speak for everyone in SoCal right now that we are ready — hoping! — for fall to start soon. (It was 102F in my town today, which is unheard of for the coast. We usually average in the 70s this time of year.)

The ceaseless heat this summer (hotter and drier than I remember from years past) means there hasn’t been a whole lot of ga...