After 6 p.m., and the thermometer on the back porch — which has been in the shade all day — reads 95 degrees. That’s down considerably from the 100+ we’ve had all day.
Need to take the pooch for a walk…but I’m kinda afraid to do so. The pavement — especially the black asphalt on the roads — is likely to be so hot it will burn her little feet. I certainly couldn’t walk far on it without singing my soles So, dammit: I’m mightily undecided.
Waiting several hours won’t do much good: that asphalt stays hot into the middle of the night.
Shoulda taken her out as dawn cracked this morning…but was waayyy to lazy for that trick.
The low desert is lovely all winter, when Michigan and waypoints are under several feet of snow. But we pay for that during the summer.
My neighbor Marge rented an apartment in Prescott, a small town in the (relatively) high country. She’s taken to spending most of the summer there. Wunderground says it’s 78 up there now, slated to drop down to 59 (brrrr!!!!) tonight.
Well. That sounds loverly…but I don’t feel I can afford to rent quarters in some other burg to escape the Phoenix heat.
Well. I probably can. But I’m too cheap to do it. 😉
At any rate, the air conditioning has been pounding away all day. That kind of overwork worries the Proprietor: sooner or later the system will crap out, and then I’ll have to hire someone to fix it, to the tune of a couple hundred bucks. Or more.
In the meantime, while we wait for a repairdude to show up, it will get hotter than a damn oven inside the house.
LOL!
Take a look at THIS site: https://prabook.com/web/home.html
Here, I stumbled across a biography of a former colleague from Arizona State. It’s hilarious! He’s written the most spectacular encomium to himself. Makes it sound like he’s had a career on a par with a full professor at Harvard. The guy was adjunct faculty at Arizona State University’s provincial West campus, where he and I taught such august courses as “Writing for the Professions” — a.k.a. “Freshman Comp for Juniors and Seniors.” An underpaid and pointless waste of time.
Heh heh heh…I’ll have to dream up an ego trip for myself and post it at that site. 😀