rainy day
Today was the first day in a while that could be remotely described as a rainy day. Good, because exhausted and under the weather I totally needed an excuse to waste hours in vegetating in front of the computer. Not that very much rain actually fell from the sky: that would be too much to expect in this desert summer. Seriously, the weather has been pretty terrifying this summer, at least from the point of view of someone like myself who considers 65°—70° tops—to be about optimal for summer temperatures. It is on this heat that I blame the poor state of the garden: not that it was bad for the plants, but that it kept me from wanting to be outside tending to them. There was the child to think of, too! I could hardly leave him out there under the sweltering sun while I worked at farming, as much as I wanted too.
I don't know if this is global-climate-change related, but when the first three stories on google news are heatwave fires in Russia, floods in China, and floods in Pakistan you start to worry. Our friends the Jehovah's Witnesses are paying close attention to it all, I'm sure. As for me, I don't know whether to pay close attention or cover my ears and shout "la-la-la". We ride bikes to the playground instead of driving, does that help?