Thursday, July 2, 2026

Heat Wave Ramblings

This past week has been HOT, very hot and humid.  Temperatures have been in the low to mid 90's ºF all week, lowering just a couple degrees today but still very oppressive.  Not terribly unusual as we've gotten over 100ºF in recent memory, except for it now coming as early as the last week in June.  We had thunderstorms miss us or just nick us mostly north in the last day, but the next couple days will see more scattered storms.  Just perfect for a 3-day holiday weekend.  Oh well, Kate has to work the next four days so I'll be mostly on my own anyway.

Even as I write this, it is before 6 p.m. so would normally be full daylight but rather is very dark as a storm is approaching and a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued.  I just stepped out to take this picture below, and the pic seems lighter outside than actual.  I'm making dinner tonight, homemade pizza, so will continue writing after.

Dinner was very good, thank you.  I'd post a pic but you've likely seen enough of my pizzas.  The rain was heavy and began almost immediately after finishing the above, but short-lived.  Looks like more of the same off and on for the weekend.

So now, after dinner and a call with Mom, where was I?

Heat, storms, oh yeah, it's a three day weekend now with tomorrow off for Saturday's 4th of July holiday.  I have more contractor stuff to share but I think I'll wait on that.  I think maybe it's time to wrap this up for now.  I'll likely post something on Saturday for the holiday, so until then - Cheers!

4 comments:

delcatto said...

Happy 4th of July!

Scoakat said...

Happy weekend, delcatto!

Anonymous said...

My American friend who has lived in the UK for nearly 40 years now is currently on her annual visit home to her folks in Delaware. She emailed yesterday to say she's never known it so hot there so early in the year.

I have finally found a recipe for GF pizza dough that works so we had pizza this week for the first time in several years (there used to be a good manufactured pizza sold in just one supermarket, but they stopped selling it). I counted up the calories and decided we wouldn't be eating it often!

- BW

Scoakat said...

Yes, the heat shifted that way after here. Still pretty warm here coming up, but not as unreasonably so.

Nice, BW, I hope you enjoyed it greatly. Pizza may be my favorite food group!