Hope all the Dads out there had a great day yesterday, which coincided with the arrival of summer. Got to spend a day with my Dad in triple digit heat but the joy it brought to him was well worth it.
Unlike many of you, summer is my least favorite season. I don’t do heat and it’s been hot here. How hot you ask?
Maybe I wouldn’t mind it as much if there haven’t been so many power outages. In the past eleven days, we’ve experienced six outages (two yesterday, in fact). Grrr. It’s been so hot, I’ve been thinking of making some special flip flops.
We hope you’re staying cool, or at the very least, comfortable with plenty of electricity. May your Monday be great and that your power stays constant during the hottest days this week. Enjoy the first full day of summer.
Live, love, bark! 🐾
We are expecting a heatwave in Scotland just now. Too hot for us!
Thanks for your kind words regarding Jethro <3
Sadly heat waves are all over the globe. And Europe in particular doesn’t have AC’s like in America. I feel badly for you guys. Hope you’re starting to adjust to being without your boy. It takes a while to get used to their absence. No doubt he’ll be sending you signs that you’re being watched from above. Sending hugs and tail wiggles.
Thanks for the humorous look at our ability to deal with the heat.
Thanks, Dan. If you can’t laugh at it, you’ll end up crying. Hope it was a swell Monday for you and the rest of the week follows in the same way.
Cold is painful and heat is miserable, I’m a fair weather person!
I don’t blame you but I can always put another layer on if it’s cold. You can only take off so much. I just wish we weren’t having so many outages. Had another one a couple of hours ago. It’s ridiculous. Have a great week.
Oh, Monika, I apologize that in the middle of your suffering with the heat I’m laughing so hard. But then again, this post is just so funny!
No apologies necessary. Our situation could be so much worse. Think Cuba. Have a good week with temps that you can live with.
Those were funny Wilson, love those flip flops!
Glad you enjoyed them, Terry. We hope you guys are staying reasonably cool. Have a fantastic week.
It’s not often when the Wicked Witch speaks for the people, but in this instance, does she ever! As for the power outages, holy Ben Franklin on a budget! That’s a power outage every other day! In this heat? Nope!
Thats exactly what I told Xcel! And my neighborhood is all solar and new! It’s disgraceful a utility company can’t seem to keep power operational.
We hope you have a great week, Marc. Stay cool.
That really is disgraceful. What is happening to this world!
Imma try!
We are so unprepared for all these AI centers that will suck the lights off. 🤦🏼♀️
You’re so right.
Last week was pleasant, high 70s. This week we are in the 80s (still good) but overcast with chance of rain almost every day. This is still good because we need the rain. We don’t have a 90 degree day in the 10 day forecast and that works for me. I like it warm but we got too hot early on and it kind of kills the spirit. I like to enjoy each season as it should be, not all mixed up.
I’m green with envy at your temps. You’re so right about hot temps arriving so early. Gawd help me, I’ve started the countdown to autumn and that seems to be rather sad. Hope you have a great week to buttress those good temps.
I’d box some up and send it to you if I could!
I know you would and I’m grateful for your generosity. We’re just going to have to suck it up. I’m contacting the solar company tomorrow to inquire about adding backup batteries. Had another outage today. It’s gotten ridiculous. Hope your week is fantastic.
I’m with Easy Weimeraner and Katty – I not only heard “the ding dong song”, I felt the melting heat too. These last few days it’s been pretty hot and humid here, too; but thankfully no power outages (yet). The Zs and I are spending limited amounts of time out in the back yard…even with the shade and breeze it feels pretty “sticky” out there. You and Wilson are welcome to visit our air-conditioned abode; but I can’t guarantee the a/c will last.
Aww, you’re too generous with your invite. Thank you. I know it could be much worse here. At least ours is a ‘dry heat.’ Have a good week and try to stay cool.
Mom and we hounds are all with you feeling that summer is our least favorite season. We don’t like the heat. At least in the cold of winter you can add layers but in the summer you are stuck. We may make some of those flip flops for our mom 😉
Exactly! People don’t see m to realize there’s only so much you can remove and still be proper ☺️ I think I might make a pair if those flip flops myself! Have a great week.
LOL! Try to stay cool M! Those specially engineered flip flops should help. Wishing you some cool breezes and a good week.
Thanks, Mike. I’d settle for a couple of rain showers but cooler weather would also be appreciated. I had to chuckle at those flip flops. Have a fantastic week!
I’m with you. Summer is my least favorite season. We did lose our power last week but thankfully, we didn’t need ac or even the fans. We were very lucky! Bring on Autumn!
Well, only 92 days till autumn arrives! 😂 Wishing you a great week.
It’s mad even here – we were at 28C (82F) today, even now at 7pm . Wednesday is predicted to be 36C (97F). We, in England are not set up for hot weather so all sorts of bad things will, no doubt, happen… 🙁
I hear you. Most of Europe is not equipped for high temps. Folks in Germany, France and Spain are really being hit with a heat wave and I feel very sorry for them. Hope the temps subside soon. Have a great week.
Power outages are most disturbing, Monika. You would think someone could figure out how to build a grid that can sustain high and low demand. Try to stay cool.
Thanks, John. You’d think so, but alas I suspect it will get worse with all the AI data centers being built every where. Our electrical grid is woefully outdated.
Have a terrific Monday!
Wowzers Meowzers! No A/C? Has to be brutal when it’s hot just like no heat is BRRRR in the cold. Love the flip flop photo – looks like a great idea – I’ll look on Amazon to see if we can order those before Summer disappears. So far here it’s not unbearable but then in Virginia we usually only have a couple of weeks of unbearable. Right now we’re wishing it would RAIN – we are in “severe drought”. Seems none of us no matter where we are are ever “ALWAYS COMFY” !!!! Hope things are better there SOON!
Huggies, Pam and Teddy
Hee, hee…I thought those flip flops were brilliant. Yeah no power during any weather event is no fun. Nature has been on a climate change bender and I expect it to get worse. Hope you and Teddy have a good week.
No power in high heat is the definition of hell – so sorry!! I hate summer as well. I’m not a heat person. Give me fall and spring with a little bit of winter until after Christmas is over and I would be a happy camper.
You and me both! Yeah, I called the pwoer company this morning for an explanation of why there have been so many outages lately. As I expected, not a very fruitful call. I feel like I live in Puerto Rico where the grid is renown for being crap.
Hope you hae a great week with your company. Enjoy!
Or in Cuba, where they hardly have power at all. Some friends visited there some months ago on a birding trip, and it was a pretty miserable experience. Gotta feel for those folks.
I know! When I realize it could be so much worse, I feel ashamed. Cuba really has had it bad.
No need to be ashamed. It is absolutely miserable being super hot and extra rough on the pups!
Glad you had a great day with your Dad, despite the heat…those flip flops are a work of genius!
Thanks Helen. It was a really nice visit with Dad. He’s slowly beginning to adapt to his new environment. Aren’t those flip flops clever? Now if only I could make a hat of ice! LOL Have a great Monday.
Sounds like hell out there! No AC doesn’t help. Hope things improve soon, meanwhile stockpile ice! 🧊🧊🧊
Thanks, it’s been ridiculous. Our electrical grid is so inadequate as it is and it’s very frustrating. Rate increases are approved left and right but they’re still having “transmission line” issues. What is this…Puerto Rico? I’m keep my fingers crossed we can withstand summer…only 92 days until the arrival of autumn. LOL Happy Monday.
Here, it is not quite the same. Major flooding in the West Island of Montreal. I mean MAJOR… I stuck close to home in case the water rose above my basement windows. Was lucky this time.
Yikes! Flooding is definitely no fun. Nature is sure on a rampage. Stay safe, my friend and have a great week!
Some people got up to 4′ in their basements. Cars were floating in the streets… awful.
And to you as well!
Yikes! That’s super scary. Rushing water is a powerful force and one not to mess around with. Everyone thinks they can get through an intersection but you just don’t want to tempt Nature trying. Stay safe.
It was some serious business. There were people at a friend’s house for dinner and it came down so hard and furiously for an hour, they could only watch helplessly… then tried to shovel out the water from the basement. Was crazy.
Ugh, flooding in a basement is the pits. We lost all the carpet and about 3 feet of the drywall when there was a flash flood from a heavy rain storm. Had to cut the carpet out in small little squares to put in the trash bin. It was a gigantic cluster. My sympathies for your friends.
My old house was flooded when I was about 5 years old. And again, after we bought it (in ’96) and it was a case of the sewers backing up. Mick lost all his collection of Coca Cola stuff. Not fun.
Ugh, nothing worse than a sewage flood. Sooo sorry.
So gross.
Beyond gross.
we can hear the ding dong song while we melt too LOL
Ha! I’m have that ear worm in my brain all day while I’m roasting. I read about the heat wave in Europe. You have my sympathies. Hope the week gets better for us all.
I don’t mind warm, but hate the heat too. I laughed out loud with your graphics. That’s hot.
I linked this post to Awww Mondays as always.
Have a fabulous day and week and stay cool. Love and hugs to you and lots of scritches to handsome Wilson. ♥
I agree that heat is hard to bear. I am in the U.P. for the first time (Michigan Upper Peninsula) and so far the weather is cooler than anyplace else I’ve lived. This is good because we don’t have air conditioning! I hope you cool down soon!
Thanks, Lori. I’ve heard the weather in the Upper Peninsula has been cooler-lucky you guys. The West is in pizza oven mode…I guess I should be grateful, it’s at least a ‘dry heat.’ Hope you have a fantastic week.
Hang in there!🫶
Thanks. It’s all we can do, right? 😉
Yeah we whistled past ‘warm’ a long time ago. I cannot fathom what July and August are going to be like.
Glad you enjoyed the graphics. I also laughed out loud at the flip flops one. Too funny. Most of the early mornings are ok and that’s when I take Wilson on his walks, he’d never make it when the sun really gets going.
As always, thanks for adding us to your blog hop link. You’re always so kind. Thank you. Have a terrific Monday and week.