Bliss!!!

At 1:30 p.m. this afternoon, my kitchen window thermometer read 99°. There is a dry well under my clothesline with a flat concrete cap. I went out in bare feet to hang up the laundry (which probably dried in 0.3 seconds), and the concrete cap was so hot, I couldn’t stand on it in my bare feet!

It’s glorious. It can be like this every single day from now to October! I don’t want to go near anyplace with air conditioning! (Alas, I’ll have to for Readercon–don’t be surprised if I’m outside the hotel basking in the heat as often as possible!). I don’t even have an air conditioned car, far less an air conditioner in my house. Eight months of the year, I freeze with my thermostat turned down to 56°. For two years, we basically haven’t had a summer, it’s been so cold and rainy. It’s summer! At long, long, last, it’s finally summer.

You’re not going to hear me complain about the heat! Not even when I finally get out to mow the lawn! Not even when I’m doing my workouts at 3:00 a.m. with the fan on full blast a foot away and I’m mopping myself with a cold cloth just to get through the routine! Not me! I’ve been waiting so long for this! This is what summer should be!

Mind you, I love winter too–in its place in the cycle. But I get so sick of being so cold, and wearing three layers of clothes indoors and hauling in firewood every day and going to the compost pile in the snow. Besides, I have a garden, and I don’t want that awful fungus thing to hit my tomatoes and potatoes. Weather like this makes that less likely.

I’m working hard on BLUM business and Readercon prep, and it looks like I can take some time tomorrow to go up to the lake and hang out a bit with my sister, niece and nephew. I’m going to make a pie from the black raspberries I’m picking in the back yard, they’re peaking now. I’ve picked a short chapter from The Longer the Fall for my reading, and read through the Sturgeon story, which is very funny, biting satire. I’m getting book shipments packed up and ready to send tomorrow and working on my financial records. So much to do! But tomorrow–I’m going swimming. 🙂

Back to work!