What happened to spring? Forecast for tomorrow: 101 degrees!! Wait... it’s still April!
And, of course, our air conditioning in one of our cars conked out on us…right on cue…the first day of really hot weather!
Life changes when the thermometer hits 3 digits!
You gotta get up earlier to do a few things...
Watering the garden…I think it’s going to need a shade cover to survive…
The lawns and plants need to be watered at night or the little drops of moisture will just evaporate into thin air…
Walking the dog must be done before 8 am or after 8 pm… And she wants to be indoors most of the day which means more dog hair to vacuum up… Time to get the dog’s hair shaved off…
No more lounging out by the pool without lathering up on the sunscreen… Ha! Ha! I had to throw that one in! Who has time to do that??!!
No more going out to get the mail barefoot!!
No more feeling guilty for not taking that long walk or jog...thank goodness for our basement gym!
Why didn’t I get my spring cleaning done a little earlier??? Now all those crates that need cleaning out in the garage will have to wait another year until the daytime temps are back below 75 degrees! (What’s another year when they’ve been out there for 7 already?!)
And then there are other nuisances associated with the heat…
Feeling like you are in a sauna when you get in the car... the steering wheel is way too hot to touch...and so are the seat belts for that matter... and the kids are screaming that their shorts-clad legs are burning against the heat of the leather seats...
Scorpions…need I say more? Katelyn and I both had the unpleasant experience of getting bit by one last year... not fun! We now have a better bug company servicing our home and yard.
And crickets chirping at night…the loud ones always find a way inside and drive me crazy… Can we pray for a few seagulls to come our way and eat them up like they did for the pioneers??
But, hey, we love the desert! We left Southern California 17 years ago and have never looked back! I spent many weekends of my childhood in Palm Springs (and Mark lived in Palm Desert for a couple of years as a child)... so we knew what we were getting into... and we will take the heat any day over living in the cold, frozen north!
So crank up the a/c... say good-bye to our lower electric bills... see ya in November.
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This hot weather is going to be a new experience for me, but I think I'd rather take the heat over the snow anyday. We're going back to Utah tomorrow for graduation so we'll be gone the rest of the week, but we should get together sometime next week or whenever you're available.
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