Megan tells me that the Portland-Vancouver area is having a heat wave.  I checked the weather news and saw that Portland registered 90 degrees.  Pikers!  Yesterday was 109 here--breaking a heat record set in 1877!--with a low of 79--beating a record set in 1918.  I turned on the cooler at 9am, and turned it off at midnight.

Today is expected to be 110, and the cooler was turned on about 8:30.

Yesterday late afternoon I went to the mailbox and seared my eyeballs.

How do people live in places where searing heat is the norm?

I wish I could afford a summer home and a winter home.  Winter here is tolerable.  Spring and fall are glorious.  Summer home someplace in Alaska maybe?

Pity the troops in Iraq.  Baghdad is 111 today, and the military carry 50 pounds of equipment, and they don't have air conditioning.  Yep, there's always something to be grateful for.

Shalom