It's a Scorcher

Jim, Jacob, and I left Colorado on Tuesday and flew to Texas. The Houston area is still very dry - in fact we are in what is officially known as an "exceptional drought." It just never seems to rain around here anymore. To add insult to injury, the region has also been experiencing higher than normal temperatures, which increases the evaporation rate. The fact that no one was at our house over the holiday weekend to water the plants and bushes did not bode well with our foliage. I am going to have to devote the next few weeks to nursing the browning shrubbery back to health. In the meantime, we have all been spending a lot of time in our pool, where the water is delightfully warm - around 90 degrees. Swimming is the only type of outdoor activity that is feasible when the temperature reaches the century mark.

The forecast - hot and dry.

Our thermometer reached 100 in the shade today.