The 200th One
After days and days of stiflingly hot weather, ominous grey clouds rolled into Austin this afternoon.
Friday afternoon, I went to an office party at a park just a couple of blocks from my building. It was over 100 degrees as we walked, and by the time I got there, I was worn out and dehydrated. I'm used to the walking, but I'm not used to the heat. It took only ten or fifteen minutes of playing something resembling volleyball hackeysack to completely wear me out, and I spent the rest of the party trying to find a nice shady place to hang out.
The garden is starting to bake, despite my best efforts to water it regularly. Most flowers just can't handle these temperatures -- especially in May and early June. I find myself leaving the temperature a little cooler now at bedtime, so that I don't wake up in a hot sweat at three in the morning.
But today, the grey clouds rolled in, and they aren't supposed to leave until the weekend. It's amazing what a difference that makes. When I left work this afternoon, my car registered the temperature in the 80s. The stark slate-grey sky was punctuated by bolts of lightning, followed by loud claps of thunder that marked this as the first summer thunderstorm of the year.
It was beautiful and distracting, and I'll become used to it if the rest of the week is like today.
I can hope, right?
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Wouldn't that be wonderful?? When school ends, they turn off the a/c in the school buildings, despite the teachers working in their rooms. My little window unit in my office won't cool the whole classroom. :(
It got up to 104 today at work, and I was grateful to return to my house, where it's only 90 outside. My poor newly sodded yard can't take the heat, despite the water I'm giving it.