Getting Hot
The heat and humidity Florida is famous for has set in. Our yard treatment man Walter was here and confirmed what our eyes had already told us, our lawn is drought stressed. We are on watering restrictions, and we pay a premium for the water we do use, but the lawn is in distress. It was lush and green just a short time ago.
This is really the first day I've been bothered by the heat at all, but I had the cooler on - we keep it set at 80 - and still felt wilted from the heat, but then I was outside a lot. Last year, I was only slightly bothered by the heat, and rarely at that. But last year we lived with tall trees on three sides of the house. It was very cooling. Still, I'll take the heat any day in preference to the cold.
I am really getting excited about our upcoming road trip. I talked with my brother this evening. He is working in Gulfport, MS for the next several weeks, so we will travel his way and make that our Monday night layover. Then we'll follow the Mississippi River north as we head over to the Crater of Diamonds state park in Arkansas where we will spend Tuesday night and search for our fortune in diamonds Wednesday morning before going on west to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
We'll be almost halfway to Moab, Utah when we leave Oklahoma City and will just enjoy the God's glorious scenery without planned stops at attractions. Of course, who knows what may catch our eye en route? As I said, I am excited! Now I'm going to search the net for wonderful places to eat at our overnight stops.
And my day was like this...
This is really the first day I've been bothered by the heat at all, but I had the cooler on - we keep it set at 80 - and still felt wilted from the heat, but then I was outside a lot. Last year, I was only slightly bothered by the heat, and rarely at that. But last year we lived with tall trees on three sides of the house. It was very cooling. Still, I'll take the heat any day in preference to the cold.
I am really getting excited about our upcoming road trip. I talked with my brother this evening. He is working in Gulfport, MS for the next several weeks, so we will travel his way and make that our Monday night layover. Then we'll follow the Mississippi River north as we head over to the Crater of Diamonds state park in Arkansas where we will spend Tuesday night and search for our fortune in diamonds Wednesday morning before going on west to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
We'll be almost halfway to Moab, Utah when we leave Oklahoma City and will just enjoy the God's glorious scenery without planned stops at attractions. Of course, who knows what may catch our eye en route? As I said, I am excited! Now I'm going to search the net for wonderful places to eat at our overnight stops.
And my day was like this...
- 10:35 Twhirl not working. I had posted re ordering food gift pkg for Scott. Can only do so from one vendor once every three months.
- 10:37 Just set up customer control panel for Giveback so I can host them on my servers. All is automatic, good thing.
- 14:18 Trying to find and print out some of my writings to send to Scott.
- 18:12 Dinner in the oven. Lemon Chicken and veggies. Biscuits will go in later. Only insane people bake in this heat.
- 19:01 Searching out trip options. I found lots of fun things we don't have time to do.
- 20:27 Plunging into a sea of email. Need to get it all taken care of before leaving.
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