Where am I?

Rick, my son lives in Seattle. He says people there are calling this one "the second summer in a row that didn't happen."

Karen

I wish this summer hadn't happened here. If I could just skip ahead to fall!

I imagine so Linda. We've had a hot and dry summer here too, but nothing like what you've had.

Karen

It's really hard to think about fall when you haven't really had summer!!

Here in Phoenix we're going to have a "cold snap" next week!!!!!!

The High will be 107 degrees

I'm so happy I could MELT!!!!!!!

OMG that is horrible!! It felt hot to me today at a mere 79 degrees, it hsa been so cold all spring and summer.

I had a heat spell here also. It got up to a sweltering 74 degrees.

>> "the second summer in a row that didn't happen."

I'm glad it isn't normal! One of my first two springs did some snowing after I did my sowing ... TWICE! I wound up sowing some thing three times to get one crop.

I'm glad they stopped calling it "global warming" and settled on "climate change".

There was a so-called "Little Ice Age" some hundreds of years ago in Europe that was called "The Year Without A Summer".

Not the same thing as Robert Heinlein's novel "The Door Into Summer" which I just re-read. His widow said that he got the idea for the book when their cat demanded to check every door in the house when he had to go outside after an ice storm.

She told Robert that the cat was looking for the door into summer, and he got a thunderstruck look and started typing very fast.

Creative mind is awesome.

I'd like to read that book! The title alone is great.

Yes, Susie, what ever will we do with our cool down next week?

go antiquing?

Uh, ya'll, there are THREE Linda's on this thread, and we all THREE just agreed that we wish this summer hadn't happened and that we could fast forward to fall.

So guess what? I don't know about ya'll, but I'm reaching for my sweater, cause I'm a little chilled right now!!!!!!

LINDA2, sharing my collective reality with LINDA1 and LINDA3!

Uh, K, please tell me how to make my front lawn look like yours....please...my front door faces the east...

Gymgirl, it's simple: Coleus, coleus, and more coleus. They'd love your heat and humidity. You might need sun tolerant ones, depending on how much sun they'd get.

You're cold? Is your air conditioning set on 50°?

BTW, for those hot Texans, they said on the news last night that WEST Tx and New Mexico are much, much, much drier now than it was during the dust ball.

Karen

How cute all three Linda's have had it with summer ! We are getting more humid every year here now in the summer and getting less rain plus our evap. cooler motor went out and Monday and Tuesday we had a house with no half way cool air. The little air-conditioner we had put in two small bedrooms kept me from totally losing it. ( but not by much ) Heat seriously scares me. I do not handle it well. I envy Margaret's cold weather !

GymGirl if I put on a sweater now, I would expire.

Are you kidding? If I didn't wear shorts and a shirt with cool fabrics like cotton I'd expire! However, I have to have a hat on if I go out in the sun...and sunscreen. 3 Basal Cell cancers removed...so far.

I also had a basal cell cancer removed years ago from my face. I think it goes with living in the west.

me 3.