I’m trying not to complain about the heat. I said I would welcome it back a few months ago when the unending rain and cold weather seemed like it would never end. And I am happy to have warmth rather than that nasty cold, wet weather. But I would prefer just a tad cooler than what we are having currently. Guess it won’t seem quite so hot after I get back from Arizona at the end of the month where the night time lows are close to our daytime highs!

It’s just that I have a number of things I’d like to do outside that I just can’t work at for very long due to the heat. I am making progress, though, having cleaned out all the flowerbeds out back and planted a number of them. Only thing left to do in the backyard is to finish putting up screening material over the fence panels and clean up the pvc pipe that Patrick has stacked at the end of the yard. Hopefully it will begin to cool down just a bit so that I can get some of this finished before summer ends…

The “Tuesday Night Dinner” gang will be here tomorrow. Thankfully they won’t be doing any cooking as Vanessa is bringing Filipino food. Yum! Next week will be the last night they’ll be here for dinner. Amanda is moving and they’ll be going to her house starting in August. I’ll miss seeing all of them…but will be relieved not to have 15+ people here every week. I’m too old to have deal with that many people coming over that often.

Took today off work to get caught up on lots of stuff. Seems the weekend just isn’t long enough… I sorted paperwork, made phone calls to various utility providers, ran lots of reports for a personal client, reconciled my bank account–all that stuff that you don’t want to do or don’t have time to do or can only do during “business hours.” Unfortunately, had to do most of this in the family room–where there is no a/c. Thus my feelings about the heat…