So what if I’m exaggerating; it feels like extreme weather here. It was 84 degrees today, which translates to REALLY HOT in the Texas Panhandle. It just snowed a few weeks ago, and I was just wearing jackets last week. From what I’ve been told, this is nothing compared to the middle of summer when the wind blows like a hot hair dryer. Can’t wait for that!
I finally invested in a digital voice recorder for interviews. It’s been so long since I’ve done interviews regularly, so I never had a real need before now. (No more pad and pencil.) I’ll still take notes but now I don’t have to scribble furiously when folks answer my questions in the form of a short story. I practiced with the boys tonight and they got a kick out of hearing their own voices.
We are officially back to a family of four. Jake moved into his new house over the weekend. Jeremy isn’t quite over his absence yet. He still asks, “When are Dad and Jake coming home?” as their names have been synonymous over the last four months. One didn’t come or go without the other, so I also got used to having him around. He will fly home to get his family this weekend and bring them back here next week. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Jeremy and his oldest son will become playmates. Not a day goes by that Jeremy doesn’t mention Grace or Ethan. It is heartbreaking to see the same longing in his eyes that I have in mine. I dearly, dearly miss my friends.
Already the week is flying by. My race is Sunday morning and I’m hoping for good weather. I’m not even checking the Weather Channel until Friday morning. I have no more room in my brain for worry.
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LOL, I was thinking something like “Just wait a month or 2…” It’s just getting started. My A/C came on this afternoon…there goes my small electric bills. Although I usually only get 1-2 really bad ones in the summer. But so far the nights are still cooler. What I can’t stand is when it’s still almost 100 at like 11 pm. Yeah, you know summer is really here when the nights are warmer than the day-time temps now. Then I get REALLY impatient in Sept. when everyone else is having nice fall weather, leaves turning colors, etc. and we’re still dying of heat stroke until almost Oct.
Umm… sounds like southern Mississippi didn’t even get THAT hot for as many months!Although, I also distinctly remember being tooo hot while pregnant **two different times** during humid summers while living close to Savannah, GA– you’ll just have to live & breath air-conditioned air no matter where you are!