It's *gasp* a *gasp* dry *gasp* heat!

For all of you who are living in a new swamp or under a rock, some of us are frying. Literally!  Each day it is a new fun game to get the mail, that is in front of our house. Can you get to the mailbox, open it without loosing fingers, retrieve the mail, close it and get back inside before third degree blister burns begin to appear? A real fun game!

Do I sound melodramatic?

Well check this out:

Do you believe me now?

The poor ice cream truck just melted!  Apparently some lady somewhere -you like my sources?- has a thermometer that tests the temp of the sidewalk. It was 170* or more!

I know, I know, it's a dry heat.

It was still 99* the past couple of nights at 10:00pm -NINETY NINE folks at 10:00PM!!!  I let Panther out this morning at 1AM, and when she laid down outside, I told her to get her crazy butt back inside as it was still HOT outside! The sun had been down for over 5 hours!

Tomorrow's forecast?

This is the first time, since a long time, that starting on June 1st all the way to June 30th we had triple digit heat EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!  Our electrical bill was "slightly" higher than normal this month. It was higher than our average highest use month of August. YIKES!

Tomorrows' science project might be:

So, this is my excuse for not blogging much. While I have lots of pictures to share. Fun stories to tell. Birthday presents I need help finding. We are currently hiding. We are hiding from the sun. We are also praying for the monsoon rains to come, although we all fear that instead of the typical evening relief they bring, it will just add humidity. Oh can you imagine this crazy intense heat with the oppression of humidity?


But I will ask for your help. I have now less than 6 months to find our little man his birthday request.  He would like a dinosaur. Not a T-Rex (THANK GOODNESS!!) but a triceratops. And NOT a baby one. And NOT a pretend toy one. --uh...I'm kinda stuck. I'm also hoping that maybe a new kick ball will distract him, but if you could help me find a heat tolerant, fully grown triceratops, that would fantastic!

Now I'm off to drink a gallon of water.