There are cooling centers and fortunately, the weather has broken! On the other side of that, I turned off the fan for a moment last night and was promptly eaten alive by mosquitos. Fan still good
His work hasn't been so bad, home has been hotter. We've been going on some lovely drives for an hour of AC in the car and bring the dogs and there is usually a DQ or at least McDonalds drinks and chicken nuggets for the dogs. Good times!
Many restaurants closed completely, most of the pizza places for example.
My little black dog, the Queenie Chiweenie, didn't like it much but I filled up the kiddy pool and dunked her in it, she was in bad shape. First time she really didn't think much of it. Second time, well it was still icky with all that water but it did feel sort of good. Third time, she walked around a little. She isn't jumping in herself yet, but she got the connection. Might make a water dog out of her yet. I've had dogs for some 30 years now, of all shapes and sizes, breeds and mixes. The only one that liked water was a cocker spaniel! Lol, Dusty looked like creampuff but you could tell in him that yes, Cockers were hunting dogs at some point before they went show.
Leaves and such on the plants are burnt to a crisp! Early fall colors and leaf loss too, not to a huge extent but it confused the trees too. My dogwood is dropping blossoms weeks early. I watered the hydrangea every day, it survived but it will look better next year.
Night before last it was 92 degrees in the house... around 1:30 AM (the one close to midnight) there was a breeze going down the street but straight past the house, I was able to stand in the doorway with the screen door open (it's only half screen) and was able to use that to catch the air inside and cooled down the house to 88 in about half an hour. It made an amazing difference.
So in sad news, we did not present the quilt, we were two group members short, but also Brian had a heart attack over the weekend. Janice is visiting him but he is unresponsive. At group we were waiting for the call to see if there was enough time for hospice to be involved, or if he would stay in the home he is in which does include end of life care. She was a nurse, she is prepared, but some things you just can't prepare enough... it was good to have supportive quilt ladies by her side.
Today it is back to work on the star blocks to alternate with the fan blocks for Aunt Debbie Bleeds Blue. I forgot my pins yesterday but I started matching up the sides to the centers.