no relief here

The promised storms never happened, so it's still hot and nasty. Not they're promising for tomorrow what was supposed to come today, and then back to this horrid stuff for the foreseeable future.

Sad to say, I think summer (humid, humid, humid, hot and getting hotter) has finally arrived. Sometimes it shows up earlier in May, but we got a tempting respite for a few weeks this year...

So, during the week, probably the chore of humping the huge, antiquated A/C units out of the closet and reinstalling them. Ugh. That means I also lose that much more daylight, as they take up a good portion of the windows of wall that have the least window space to begin with (who thought that up?)

And the worst part is that it totally kills my desire to exercise, which I need very badly to do a lot more than I have been. But when the weather is like this, I just want to hide from the world and move as little as possible. It's like living your whole day in a steamy shower room.

I really, REALLY hate summers here.

nice walk, but sweaty

Yep, it's a nice day outside in almost every way. Sunny, big puffy white clouds, even the temperature is not too bad...if were about half as humid.

Saw the usual haul of birds: robins, starlings, mourning doves, sparrows, a cardinal, grey catbirds (they've been around more often lately).

The paths all smell like dusty green leaves and honeysuckle, definitely summer smells.

I noticed the other day (I don't think I mentioned this already) that some apparently long time ago our wee park was posted as a "wildlife area; there's a rusting sign I noticed on a telephone pole. It says "no shooting"; I would hope that no one would be shooting anyway, as the path is never more than 30 feet from a house!

BTW, forgot to mention that when soccer_fox  and gr_c17 showed up on Saturday, several police were busily arresting some people in front of the house. They can probably describe better what was going on, but when I went down later, there were still three police officers, county cops by the look of them, chatting in a friendly way. It looked like a bicycle officer and two that were either car- or motorcycle equipped (couldn't see either right nearby. Yesterday there was a motorcycle officer on the street (never see them around here). Wonder what was going on...

And I clocked myself today and my two-mile walk is now 25 minutes instead of half an hour. I'm going to have to walk further (or slower ;-) to get in my half hour of concentrated walking every day! Plus, ocne I can do a whole week of it, I'll switch to running some.

OK, shower, lunch, then off to my Monday game (early) with Frank.