Hot

99 degrees in the shade on the back porch. Need I say more?
Will this be the summer of the national heat wave? People in Houston and Oklahoma are laughing at all us tenderfeet (tenderfoots?) in the Midwest who are complaining after only a week or so of the blistering heat. They have been in the grip of 100 degree days for at least a month. So are Alaska and Canada holding back? They need to share even th weakest of cool fronts.

not much

Life has been complicated by the bipolar stuff. I don't have the emotional or physical energy to post much, or do much of anything else.
I will say that for a city where fireworks are supposed to be illegal ( in undesignated areas like alleys and yards) there sure was a lot of very close noise well into the night on the 4th. I'm glad the landscape was wet.