We're Having a Heatwave, a Tropical Heatwave

The temperature is rising but it isn't exciting, it's hot, just plain hot! It may hit 100 on Monday and Tuesday of next week and this weekend is supposed to be in the mid 90s. It looks like we're not the only ones either.

All I can say is thank God for air conditioning. It's such a lovely invention. We have window units and even they're better than not having any air conditioning at all. I gotta tell ya, keeping the curtains closed, we have thermal curtains on all the windows, helps too. I hate how dark it is in the house, but it keeps things cool and comfortable.

You know, there are STILL dumb people out there that are taking their dogs with them and leaving them in hot cars while they go shopping. I love my dogs too much to put them through that. People, you wouldn't intentionally do that to your kids, why are you doing it to your pets?!

It would be nice if we had a pool, but we don't. We had one when we were kids and we spent a lot of time in it. When we no longer had one, we would go swimming in our neighbor's pool when they invited us or go to the public pool. I remember it cost a dime for people under the line at the public pool and my sister was over the line, but still paid only a dime. That pool is no longer there. It was replaced by a skate boarding park and a new "wave" pool was built in another location. I've never seen it, but then I do live out of state and when we did go back to visit, never had a reason to go to it.

We had a pool for our kids when they were little but we had to take it down because all the neighborhood kids thought that they were entitled to use it too, coming to our door and asking if they could go swimming and not just the little kids either but their older siblings. We would let them swim in it until they started taking advantage of it and expected to be able to swim in it even when we weren't using it. One family was especially bad at doing that. Things went down hill in the neighborhood after that.

Some of our neighbors put up pools of their own, but our kids were never invited to swim in them. But by that time, we had the boat, so we spent the weekends going boating or Dave would take the kids and go boating and fishing while I was working. That was fun.

Unfortunately there's not many places close to here where you can go boating. We don't have the boat anymore anyway, so it doesn't matter, but we do have other adventures in mind. We're thinking of getting a camper trailer. We haven't decided definitely yet, Dave wants to see how things go with the economy and such. But if we get one, the soonest we would get it would be this fall. But it'll be one way to beat the heat, plus the pets can join in the fun. I guess they could if we had a pool too.