Lovely, lovely Arizona.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, it’s 108 in the shade of the back patio. And overcast.
Got that? 108 under a blanket of gray clouds.
What a place! Almost as lovely as lovely Arabia. Ick!
My son, figuring to protect me from myself (somebody has to, right?), brought over a few cans of beeroid.
And “beeroid“is the operative term: the damn stuff is non-alcoholic!
😀
LOL!
Actually, in the flavor department, it’s not bad. Tastes much like real beer…a little bland, but otherwise acceptable.
WhatEVER…I am NOT in the mood to venture out, on foot, (the kid still has my car) to hike through cloudy (gawdawful!) heat and wind for the sake of a six-pack of beer.
On the other hand, neither am I in the mood to deprive my little self.
So here we are, perched on the bed, peering through the back windows as we watch the storm pile up, and…swilling. Beeroid, is what we’re swizzling..
Tried to talk M’hito into coming over for dinner. He, being no fool, was having NONE OF IT. So…okay…there’s some work I don’t hafta do.
And instead of that steak in the fridge, I reckon we’ll have some spaghetti. Well, I will: that dawg will turn up her cute little nose at spaghetti. 😀
By dinner time, this storm will have rolled into our parts, and we won’t want to be dodging raindrops to grill a slab of meat.
Hmmmmm…. Actually….that was prob’ly a smart move on The Kid’s part. This weather is growing worse with mathematical élan! Wind is picking up fast. Ugh! Looks like we’ll both be glad we stayed hunkered down in our respective caves. Temp.: 108 degrees. Wind speed: a mere 9 mph…just now… But tree tops are waving in the wind, a standard sign that soon the wind will be whipping us all around.
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Uggleee afternoon. The sky’s the color of mud.
Sure am glad I don’t have to go anywhere this afternoon. And especially glad I won’t be driving home from work in a storm through rush-hour traffic.
Retirement: it’s the business!! 😀
Ugh! I hope your heat breaks soon!
Here near the coast of North Carolina, temps were mostly in the mid- to upper 90s through all of July. Since August started, they’ve backed down to the 80s, a considerable improvement – until you factor in the humidity. Even so, an improvement.
Thunderstorms have allegedly backed off a bit, too, but you couldn’t prove that by me. We’re likely to get some rain this afternoon, and there’s a better than average chance of afternoon rain through the rest of the week. I, for one, am ready for fall!
Yeah…often when you live near the ocean, you get rafts (heh!) of humidity added to the ambient temperature. I grew up on the edge of the Persian Gulf…and can remember waking in the morning to see water running off the roof as though we’d had rain. But it wasn’t rain: it was humidity that had condensed out of the air during the night. Sometimes, it would “rain” during a clear afternoon, out of a clear blue sky. Makes Arizona’s heat and dry air look good!