This is what summer should look like. A great pool, a super raft, and floating around in the sunshine. It is what I look forward to every May when school ends.
This is what the summer of 2011 does look like...fried grass and excessive heat. We are a close second right now behind the longest streak of 100 degree days ever. We thought the summer of 1980 was brutal. I remember it clearly. We had just moved into a new house and had planted an acre of grass seed. We watered 24 hours a day. Record heat and no rain at all. We survived and the grass did grow but it was a summer I will not forget.
So here we are again...ridiculous heat and not enough water to keep anything alive. We are parched...dried up and miserable. I water...continually. Morning and evening I am drenching my plants in moisture...to no avail. The heat is just too much. 
There is no end in sight. The next week is worse that last week. Another 6 days of ridiculous temperatures and absolutely NO rain anywhere on the horizon.
This will come to an end. It will be winter someday..soon I hope. Six months ago we were trapped by snowfall like we had never seen before. School was cancelled for a record number of days while we all shivered praying for an end to the ice and freezing temperatures. So, now we are on the other side of the temperature curve and looking for the end. In the meantime...bring on the ice tea and don't set your glass in the sun!
This is what the summer of 2011 does look like...fried grass and excessive heat. We are a close second right now behind the longest streak of 100 degree days ever. We thought the summer of 1980 was brutal. I remember it clearly. We had just moved into a new house and had planted an acre of grass seed. We watered 24 hours a day. Record heat and no rain at all. We survived and the grass did grow but it was a summer I will not forget.
So here we are again...ridiculous heat and not enough water to keep anything alive. We are parched...dried up and miserable. I water...continually. Morning and evening I am drenching my plants in moisture...to no avail. The heat is just too much. 
There is no end in sight. The next week is worse that last week. Another 6 days of ridiculous temperatures and absolutely NO rain anywhere on the horizon.
This will come to an end. It will be winter someday..soon I hope. Six months ago we were trapped by snowfall like we had never seen before. School was cancelled for a record number of days while we all shivered praying for an end to the ice and freezing temperatures. So, now we are on the other side of the temperature curve and looking for the end. In the meantime...bring on the ice tea and don't set your glass in the sun!
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