94 ish today. Gross. Well, it's been so nice for so long, I guess it has to end. The grass is crispy and brown in most places. The ground is powder dry (we did a dig today and yes, it's powder all the way down).  Need to water the trees again. What rain we get here and there isnt really enough. Just keeps the weeds happy.

The lad is in week 4 of ( Read more... )

Wow, it's nearing the end of August. Himself will be going to college in a week and 2 days and the days are getting shorter. But what a fantastic summer it has been, at least in the enjoyably aspect. It's just been so damned NICE out. Dry, yes.. but nice. I don't expect to see a summer like this for a while. Probably pay the piper 10 fold next year ( Read more... )

That's right, Global Warming is over. This summer of below normal temps proves it. Oh I wish. But I am enjoying this moderate and wonderfully dry summer, thought the trees and the grass are not.

It's been so wonderful leaving the windows open all day, but for the time we go to work and have to shut them against the possibility of drug addicts ( Read more... )

Sorry for the few who read this but are not LJ users. I have been getting so much spam lately, even though it's screened, that I am switching my settings for comments. I will switch back in a while after the get bumped enough to give up. Seems like marking them as spam does nothing ( Read more... )

That's it, it's over. Pack it in and go home. Summer is now over. Closed. Done ( Read more... )

Still hot, but not as bad. When do we get a break from this ( Read more... )

Today Biv was going on and on about what she is doing with her father for Father's day. Then she paused and asked if this was the first or second year without my father for Father's day. I told her it's the first and she apologized for going on and on. Actually, the content of what she was saying wasn't bothering me, just the fact that she was ( Read more... )

But the house only got to 89. It's dropped a degree now at 5:00 to 88. I really didn't think it was that hot when I was at work. Hot, but not that hot. Now I know why I was dragging so much. Saving graces is that it's not humid and there is a stiff breeze. A hot breeze, but hey.. It's going to be 50 something tomorrow. YES! this heat so fast isn't ( Read more... )

Just got back from the neighbors. They invited a bunch of us down for Samoas (that's what we call Smores) at their fire pit. Brings back fond memories of just about every major spring/summer/fall holiday for the last 5 or 6 years. The kids performed dance routines in the dark with a woman who I thought was 17 but was later told was 35. She still ( Read more... )

It's about 92 or so outside. What will it be next March I wonder. Will St. Paddy's day be 90? Cripes. At least it's not humid. We are expecting a possible thunder storm tonight as the normal weather returns. God, what does this mean for the summer? UGGG! And my father is in his asinine stubbornness and stupidity, sitting upstairs in his bedroom, ( Read more... )