The electric companies for mine and neighboring counties keep sending out daily emails asking us not to use the electricity until after 10 pm and in some cases midnight. Yesterday they requested we not use the electricity until 9 pm so some days the restriction is lifted early. There are so many excuses and equally …
Tag Archives: hot
Buzzards
Something is dead nearby. It is 111 degrees. Too hot to find out what. Into the house we go.
The A/C Broke in the Middle of Summer
In hindsight i should have known that it was not all in my head that this summer was hotter than ones of the past. It was. Because inside the house when the window unit said “70 degrees” it was really 85. The window unit had been slowly failing for over a month and i had …
Tips for Surviving Summer In Texas
the other day i looked over at the thermometer i have mounted against the house on the front porch and it read “112 degrees”. I dont know if the wall is a different temperature than the rest of the town because it was only supposed to be 106, or maybe it was just possessed, but …
104 * F
For the past couple of days it has been extremely hazy. The air has been especially thick and humid. It is hard to see past 100 ft and everything looks as if it is concealed in gray fog. I suspect we are being visited by some of the smoke from the wildfires in Canada that …
They’re Back
The rains have stopped, which is better for the health of the chickens. It would be better that their shavings and droppings are dry rather than damp, for their respiratory health. However, hotter dryer weather means more scorpions in the house looking for water and a/c. I started hearing noises coming from the sink drain …
Summer Exhaustion
In the summer Sili and Cashew would go outside to rough house, sprint, and wrestle in the 101 degree heat. Then they would come barreling through the house, slop water all over the general area surrounding their bowl, and collapse around me to enjoy the cold floor and be petted. It was a rare moment …