We don’t have air conditioning. We have ceiling fans, double pane windows and a few sunshades. Makes me miss Israel where my room came complete with water-cooled sunshades. Just about saved my life.
It’s been hot as the devil! Sometimes it’s like that out here. We get these ungodly heat waves that last three to seven days. Yikes!
All the windows are open, so…
Jake hears the wildlife coming into the yard to quench their thirst at our fountain so he barks all night.
He gives his obligatory loud howl every morning when a fire engine roars up the main road at, well, it seems like it’s pretty consistent, right around 5:20 a.m. I think Jake wakes up the entire neighborhood.
Not sleeping well. Nobody in this household has an appetite.
During the day I have to water my plants- twice, spray down the dog and my birds. The parrot and the parakeet get hot too. And the cat insists I hose off the walkway so he can roll in the puddles.
The on-shore air flow is supposed to return tonight. I hope so. The rest of you are freezing. We’re baking. Fortunately the late rains are keeping the fires at bay around here. So far.
Not great writin’ weather. Kinda more like dog days of summer weather.
Supper means salads. Tonight I made a variation of a wedge salad- used radicchio and endive (we like bitter greens), tomatoes, strawberries (because strawberries go well with blue cheese), celery sticks, pre-cooked bacon that I crisped in the microwave, chunks of Gorgonzola picante- which is a fantastic blue, and creamy blue cheese dressing on the side.
Alternative Wedge Salad.
I remember the hot summers of SoCal. Stifling! To put it mildly. Charcuterie plates are my staple on hot summer days. Hope the heat breaks soon.
Oh totally, Roberta. The hot days here seem more oppressive than the do in Iowa. Hot days in Iowa never stopped me. Here, yeah, they do affect me. Today is better. My kids LOVE charcuterie plates!
I live in a city that was essentially uninhabitable before air conditioning (Houston, Texas) and becomes that way again when the AC goes out. Ours had the decency to do that before it got too unbearably hot this year. Fixed now.
Oh and thanks for the book. It’s in the queue for this weekend.
You are totally welcome! Happy reading. Our furnace exploded… yes, exploded, several years ago on December 31st. Fortunately we have a wood-burning stove. One of the coldest New Year’s holidays in decades. Took two weeks to get a new furnace. So I understand.
Lost our air conditioning for four weeks in mid-summer when we lived in Houston. Furnace burned up Christmas Eve our first Christmas in NY…and the next two weeks set low temperature records while we waited for a new furnace part that got lost in the UPS system. All that just means I’m thankful every day for a liveable place in Baltimore.
Blessing and I’ll hope for cooler temps for you soon!
PS What is charcuterie???
Oh wow, Anny. Hot hot hot! Houston is humid too. You had very cold weather this year tho. Ah, charcuterie - here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcuterie