Heat Wave

We're in the midst of a real heat wave over here. According to one report, the National Weather Service is calling it "excessively hot." According to everyone here, it's really friggin' hot. How hot? I just checked, and it apparently got into the mid 90's today (96 degrees in Oakland)! Previous record: 87 degrees in 1976. Yikes.

So, I gathered the girls, emptied the sandbox and made a makeshift pool. Then we ate popsicles. Then we hosed each other off. Under the plum tree, of course, so that we could do double duty and water the tree. No wasted water here. Our water district also just adopted water-rationing rules due to near-drought conditions several years in a row. If it's yellow, let it mellow...