God It's HOT!

It wasn't long ago... a few days ago, that it was in the 70's and very comfortable. Within one day, it's climbed into the high 90's. I was mowing the lawn this last Sunday. I was fine for the first 30 minutes, but I kept thinking that I was having allergies or asthma, because I just couldn't get my breath. It's not that I'm really out of shape. It was because of the air quality I think. And this morning on the news they were warning everyone to stay indoors and not do anything outside because of dangerously high levels of ozone. So I'm wondering if that was the problem.

At any rate, I didn't complete the lawn. I did what I could and went into the house where I was faced with a pissed off cat (Maxwell) who wanted the air turned on. I told him, "Maxwell, remember... we talked about the size of your 'carbon footprint', and how we were going to try to not contribute to global warming?" His reply was a quick swipe at my leg (his way of saying, "This is CRAP!"), so... I ended up closing the windows and turning on the cooling. At 72 degrees, he's a happy cat. He jumped up on his post in front of the window for his afternoon sunbath, with the vent above gently blowing down cool air upon him, and then he had the audacity to want the window cracked open so he could get fresh air from the outside as well (we didn't do that)!. I know, it's scary how I understand what he's saying to me.

At any rate, schools are now closing. People are leaving work to go get their kids. It's like a disaster has happened. Here's the current weather, courtesy of AccuWeather.com.

So I'm going directly home from work. I made Gazpacho this weekend so we would have something refreshing to have for dinner, without heating up the kitchen.

And to keep those cool thoughts going, an image comes to mind when I was enjoying myself so much after a winter storm had hit. Seems like a long time ago now.