Alright- I really owe a lot of posts. But today? Today was not the day. Today was an anticipated high of 97 degrees. I don't know what the actual temperature was, but it was hot. Gross and sticky hot. Miserable hot. The kind of hot that makes you pack up all your kids and drive fifteen minutes to a friend's house because she has central AC. (That's also known as a good friend.)
There are severe thunderstorms predicted for tonight, which will hopefully take down the humidity. Because then I could post some of the pictures of my friend Gret's visit this weekend. Or the kids on the slip-and-slide this evening. But tonight, I'm going to go melt on my couch.
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- Keeping Friends and Family Current on our sometimes mundane and sometimes madcap adventures....
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Rich: We call him Daddy around here, but that seems a bit personal for you.
Shea: He's 12.
Atlee: She's 8.
Greeley: She's 5.
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....and adding to the roll call: Uncle Michael. Because when you outsource your blog to someone, they should get a mention in the credits. I don't know how old he is.
Two cats, two fish and did you perhaps hear ABOUT MY DOG?! That's right, a dog. They're all alive still but the house plants didn't make it.
Rich: We call him Daddy around here, but that seems a bit personal for you.
Shea: He's 12.
Atlee: She's 8.
Greeley: She's 5.
Emerson: He's 2.
....and adding to the roll call: Uncle Michael. Because when you outsource your blog to someone, they should get a mention in the credits. I don't know how old he is.
Two cats, two fish and did you perhaps hear ABOUT MY DOG?! That's right, a dog. They're all alive still but the house plants didn't make it.
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The 2010 list.
- Janet Evanovich's Plum Spooky
- Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
- Rick Riordan's The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse
- Rick Riordan's The Sea of Monsters
- Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief
The 2009 Currently Reading List...
- Sigh. I stopped writing them down, but there were a bunch of VI Warshawky's in addition to oodles more Jane Haaddams and all sorts of things I didn't write fown. Double drat. 2010 is a new year.
- Qiu Xiaolong's the Mao Case
- Jane Haddam's Hardscrabble Road
- Jane Haddam's Cheating at Solitaire
- Erich Segal's Love Story
- Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown
- Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shoutin'
- Leslie Chang's Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
- Janet Evanovich's Twelve Sharp (Again.)
- Richard Adams' Watership Down (Again.)
- Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear (Again.)
- Johanna Lindsey's Secret Fire (I said Don't Judge Me.)
- Jude Devereaux's The Enchanted Land (Don't Judge Me.)
- Richard Russo's Empire Falls
- Stephanie Kallos' Broken for You
- Alexander McCall Smith's The Miracle at Speedy Motors
- Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
- Qiu Xiaolong's Red Mandarin Dress
- Vicki Myron's Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
- Jane Haddam's Fountain of Death
- Diane Mott Davidson's Chopping Spree
- Sharyn McCrumb's The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- Joyce Carol Oates' My Sister, My Love
- Ken Follett's The Third Twin
- Ken Follett's Jackdaws
- Martha Grimes' The Dirty Duck
- Billie Letts' Shoot the Moon
- Julia Spencer-Fleming's I Shall Not Want
- Julia Spencer-Fleming's All Mortal Flesh
- Julia Spencer-Fleming's Out of the Deep I Cry
- Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn
- Julia Spencer-Fleming's A Fountain Filled with Blood
- Julia Spencer-Fleming's In the Bleak Midwinter
- Agatha Christie's Postern of Fate (I gave up after half of the book. I just didn't care.)
- Stephanie Meyer's Eclipse (Um, Truthfully I read it twice...)
- Katie MacAlister's Zen and the Art of Vampires
- JA Jance's A More Perfect Union
- James Morrow's This is the Way the World Ends
2008: A Good Year for Reading. And Read I did.
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Turned On and Off
- Janet Evanovich's Seven Up
- Stephanie Meyer's New Moon
- Stephanie Meyer's Twilight
- James Patterson's Honeymoon
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter
- Kimberla Lawson Roby's Casting the First Stone
- Joshua Piven's As Luck Would Have It
- Michael D. Kelleher & CL Kelleher's Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer
- James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder
- Christopher Moore's Coyote Blue
- Chris Rogers' Bitch Factor
- Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
- Sharyn McCrumb's Missing Susan
- Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
- Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass
- Laurie Notaro's Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
- Laurie Notaro's The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
- Nathan McCall's Them
- Martha Grimes' Dust
- Martha Grimes' The Stargazey
- Marie Phillips' Gods Behaving Badly
- Janet Evanovich's Three to Get Deadly
- Janet Evanovich's Ten Big Oes
- James Morrow's The Philosopher's Apprentice
- Clive Cussler's Treasure
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went Underground
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Sniffed Glue
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
- Martha Grimes' The Winds of Change
- Gregory Maguire's Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- Clive Cussler's Black Wind
- Clive Cussler's Cyclops
- Qiu Xiaolong's A Case of Two Cities
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went into the Closet
- Clive Cussler's Fire Ice
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Saw Stars
- Clive Cussler's Blue Gold
- Clive Cussler's Trojan Odyssey
- Clive Cussler's Inca Gold
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Smelled A Rat
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Talked Turkey
- James Patterson's Four Blind Mice
- Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Went Bananas
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Read Backwards
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Read Shakespeare
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
- Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Sea of Fire
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Blew The Whistle
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell
- Ken Follet's The Key to Rebecca
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Triumphant
- Ken Follet's Whiteout
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan at the Earth's Core
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Son of Tarzan
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes
- JA Jance's Hand of Evil
- Mark Coggins' Vulture Capital: August Riordan Series
- Mark Coggins' Immortal Game: August Riordan Series
- Dan Zevin's The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grownup
- Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants
- Janet Evanovich's Motor Mouth
- Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat who Brought Down the House
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Said Cheese
- Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
- Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook
- Michael Connelly's The Last Coyote
- Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass
- Michael Connelly's Blood Work
- Michael Connelly's Angels Flight
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9 comments:
Oh, it sounds as if you've gotten our weather from yesterday today. Just when we thought we might get through the summer without the really hot and muggy stuff hitting us, it hit.
If the pattern of we get it and then you get it the next day holds, tomorrow will be hot but somewhat less so than today.
Hang in there!
IOU one comment.
(You had to know THAT was coming.)
I don't blame you - I hate the heat as well. "Heat" means above 75degrees. It's 76 in Lake Clear now. If I wasn't working, I'd be in the lake, freezing. LOVE the ADKs!
Yeah, ...really not having any empathy....some of us were outside working in it....
I have this sneaking suspicion that the anonymous comment is in fact my husband.
If you are right about Anonymous, it goes to show that males, even when they see it day-and-night, don't really consider what a mother does work.
Only real men are permitted to sweat.
I feel tempted to reveal who I am, but won't--except to confess that I'm a male too, tempted to treason against my...is it sex or is it gender. I wish I had my PC dictionary handy.
You know it's hot when your visiting sister from Florida can't handle it either! And we live much further north than you, sadly so..
It's been realllly hot here to but only yesterday and today. I hope you found/find relief. No fun being tooo hot when your preggers.
T'aint much better up here - high 80s for several days. Ew. Least it cools to the 50s at night I guess. And here I am ... is it weird that the only blog visiting time I have is when I am working at Ted's? LOL
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