Volume 18 - Day 190/175, 2026 - Thursday

Hot, hot, hot. Don't get me started on the heat in central Texas, I have lived here for 41 years, and I know what the weather will bring from one season to the next. Not that we have four seasons here, we have summer, fake fall, fake winter, fake spring, and then we go back to summer. We have about three-and-a-half months to go before we get some cooler weather, and that will be lovely. It has been almost three weeks since we had any rain, and we had about 5.5" of rain in June, and about 65% of that was in one day. Even I am bored by this post so far. Paulina and Oliver and I went to Dairy Queen for lunch today, and I mentioned to one of the employees that one of their digital signs was grammatically incorrect. I don't think she was particularly motivated to correct it, and I doubt I will go back any time soon to check. I also made a quick trip to the post office to mail a couple checks; whenever I actually mail something, I like to go to the Post Office instead of putting them in the neighborhood cluster box. Just one of my things. I will likely go out later this evening and water some plants. I water in the morning, but with the heat, I check a few things in the evenings. We have better than average rain chances next week, and I will cross whatever needs to be crossed to make sure it really happens. The piglet needs to have her face washed, and we BOTH hate it when that happens!