Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
I would like to welcome you all to the 7th circle of hell, a.k.a South Carolina. While the thermostat may read a balmy 91 the heat index makes it feel more like 910 degrees 🥵 (ok 99 if you insist on accuracy 🙄😆). Here’s the thing, I lived in Las Vegas for 9 years and the last year it had about two weeks with temperatures over 110 degrees during the day. I am familiar with hot. But those who have had the experience of living in both dry heat and humid heat can tell the difference. At least when I lived in Vegas, I didn’t spontaneously sweat buckets if I was outside for more than 5 minutes. South Carolina, I turn into a sweltering mess without actually doing anything more strenuous than standing outside. I feel for the tennis players who are struggling with similar conditions in Japan.
The point is that both climates suck but for entirely different reasons. And both make me become a hermit in the summer 🤪.
We almost had a break in the heat for about 30 minutes when a storm that had been threatening us all afternoon came roaring in a little before 7 pm. It was so violent that my front door flooded along with the upstairs window in my laundry room. And my staked tree was knocked over – AGAIN. I’m thinking I should move it to a safer location and just plant a big bush out front. I may put a bush out front regardless because if that tree keeps getting uprooted, it isn’t going to survive at this rate. Poor tree.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen Good or Omen the last two nights. They probably sensed the storm was coming and took shelter under the back porch. I hope they are ok because the wind with that storm was awful!
The Olympic coverage has hit a bit of a weird patch for me. Lately it’s been about tennis, volleyball, and swimming. Even gymnastics is only getting maybe an hour in prime time (most of it is covered by streaming ☹️) and quite frankly the spoiler headlines make it a non-issue from a watching standpoint. I want to see the Kayaking and Canoeing get some love (although I caught highlights of both, and the Kayaks and Canoes look the same to me 🤷🏼♀️). I am going to give NBC the asshole of the day award for their swimming coverage only because they keep cutting away from the third-place finisher in many of the races and will do interviews before showing how the field finished – which I found highly aggravating 🤬! But I taped some events that I wouldn’t normally get to see last night so I have that 😊.
I’ll close out with a quick, hopeful outlook on the ant situation. A man I’ve hired to help with landscaping the back of the property used to do foundation treatments another lifetime ago. I texted for a possible recommendation, and he called me back with some helpful info. He has convinced me that the holding pattern is the best option for the moment as my pest control had treated the yard with some sort of ant bait/poison that should assist in killing the queen. So between the spray and the bait/poison the queen may not last much longer (if she isn’t already dead 🤞). As my friend Arin said “There’s only room for one queen in this house!” 🤣🤣🤣
My Lemons My Lemonade 