Hot

A friend called me yesterday afternoon and invited me to bring stuff over and join them in a garage sale today. Since I hadn't really planned for it I was up until 1:00 a.m. sorting and pricing stuff, then went over very early to set it all up. It was already so hot and humid at 6:30 a.m. that I was drenched in sweat just setting my things up.

I sold quite a bit of stuff, but even more important to me was that I was able to recycle some used items to people who were glad to get them for cheap, rather than just having to throw them away (like old kid's bicycles that had been left out in the elements too long). By noon I was so hot I had to stop.

It wasn't until a few hours later that I noticed what the temperature is 110 degrees here today!! I'm glad I didn't realize that it was that hot when I was out in it, I would have felt even worse. It was a crazy day to do a garage sale!

We have two downstairs rooms in our house that are just bearable right now (from a small wall air-conditioner), but the upstairs rooms are over 90 degrees right now. I think we are going to try to find some kind of air-conditioned restaurant to go out to dinner at tonight, and I may try my mom's trick of putting ice in front of a fan tonight to be able to sleep upstairs tonight.

I don't think I've ever seen it this hot here before. I know there is a heat-wave happening over most of North America and at least Great Britain as well, I'm not sure about other places.

I hope you are surviving the heat well!