After cruelly taunting us for months, summer has arrived in full force! It wasn’t even noon today that I raced back home to shut the windows and roof hatches and put the AC on auto. When I came back a few hours later my grateful cats were lying under the air vents.

It’s so hot that the thermostat is at its maximum and the AC is running continuously. It’s generating water that is being collected in the gutters and dripping to the ground, a most peculiar sight in such arid conditions!