about the place I live.
Lo, though it is 90+ today, it will be the hottest day of the year thus far. No hundred degree temps recorded since 1988. The humidity is a bit troublesome but since it hasn't rained, it doesn't feel too sticky.
And, there is water around here so I don't feel that desperate desert feeling I get in SLC in the summer when the edges of the tree's leaves start to brown and the grass gets crusty even though it's watered seven days a week. I just finished the book "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan which reminded me of all the trouble that goes into trying to garden-up a desert.
There is a little lake here--about a mile away. Zo and I ride around it once a week or so. She likes her bike seat a lot. From our perch we saw a turtle, a beaver and some ducklings. We've been mapping the ducklings progress and they are getting almost grown-up sized.
And, we're off to the big lake this afternoon after Erik finishes tearing down a wall, I write something, and Zo takes a nap. The big lake is as nice as the ocean with waves and super-sandy beaches.
So, this place, this summer, not so bad.
Look forward to more weather updates since pretty much that's all I think about, an obsession Egan's book thoroughly justifies.
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Hot here, but not crazy. Not right now. But yes, hot. I miss lake swimming and water in general.
We're off to Idaho where it's only in the high 80s. And there is some water there.
We have ducklings in the courtyard at my school and they come back each year. The principals secretary makes them a bath out of a kiddie pool and they even have a ramp to get in it. It is about 100 million degrees here today in the south...
having just spent a few days in Seattle, I can say that being around lakes is very nice indeed. I have a hankering to do the midwest high and low next summer, so maybe the historian and I will dip a toe into Michigan.
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