So after a hot a blistering weekend, I checked the forecast for the upcoming week.  Instead of the little icons the weather usually has:  Sun, sun/cloud, clouds, rain, lightning bolts.   They actually had an icon that looked like FIRE!

Yes, it’s that hot here.  Surface of the sun grade heat.  The heat index, or “feels like” temp has been starting at 110.  118 I think is the highest I’ve seen so far.  And it is not a dry heat.  This is full out steam room, how the vegetables feel on the stove humid and hot.  How hot is that….

• Besides the feeling of your’re going to die when walking outside…
• I can’t ever remember not being able to use the air conditioner in the car in normal mode.  If we turn of the re-cirulation mode, it gets warm and humid in there.  It’s been on re-circ for 3 days now.
• If your dashboard vents aim towards the window, water will condense on the outside of the window and stream away constantly while driving.
• Sunglasses fog up when leaving the house or car.

I will say, that while being in the mid one-teens yesterday, there was a nice breeze.  So, you immediately soaked your self in sweat when walking outside, but the evaporation causes a cooling effect.  It was quite nice feeling.

Progress?  None!  Too dang hot.  I’ve been removing cedar shake shingles and replacing the decking on the shed with plywood.  It’s about half done, and since I was working in bursts anyhow, I was trying to tuck the upper edge of plywood under the last remaining row of shingles to keep rain from pouring straight in.  Needless to say, there are plenty of holes, but I don’t care at the moment.  It’s hot and not raining.  It’ ain’t leaking right now!  It’s going to wait a few days.  Just before the heat, I did get some trim on the windows, and here’s a pic.

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