Recent Heatwave

I have been neglecting my blog, mostly because it was too darn hot to sit with a computer on my lap and try to string sentences together. But we did enjoy our very very warm Washington summer. It's been almost a month since we've had any measurable rain. My yard is very very dead. ALthough since it's mostly all weeds at this time, I'm not complaining not having to mow them down.

On the hottest day of the wave, my outdoor thermometer showed 108 and my inside thermometer showed 90. OUCH. I met a good friend of mine and her two kids at one of the free spray parks in tacoma. Basically just a bunch of sprinklers. But it was a nice and cheap way to cool down.

That same day, my awesome in laws brought us a window A/C unit. AHHH relief. Unfortunately Scott didn't get home until 9pm that night so it wasn't installed until 11. We didn't feel the relief until the next day but it made a measurable difference, I think we were down to 78-80 degrees inside. MUCH better. The heat wave has finally broken and it's down to 60-75 again.

Here are a couple pictures from our trip to the spray park.