Hot Enough For Ya?

There’s been some high temps here and there.

   Usually our temperatures are fairly mild… sure, most days are in the mid eighties to low nineties every single day for six months each summer.  But really, that’s nothing to complain about. I just have to make sure I start my work in the morning,  and I can also get some work done before it gets dark also.

   Usually we get cool nights, so the mornings are cool, and the cactus is crisp. That’s when I like to pick it, when it’s got the cold of the night still in it… but after it’s sat enough in the light and warmth of morning to lose any dew.

   But the last few nights we’ve not gotten cool. Each night the night time temperatures never got below 80 degrees. And the house was still 85 degrees in the morning.

   This photo show our indoor/outdoor thermometer. The right side is the outdoor sensor… which was on the sunny side of the house… it was reading 118 degrees…. I worried it would break off the top of the thermometer… I’ve seen it do that on TV.

   It was only 105 degrees on the shady side of the house.

  And it was 95 degrees indoors. This was at eleven AM.. by four PM it was over 100 degrees indoors.

   The cactus likes these temperatures. As long as Igive them some water to balance the heat of the sun, they grow strong and tender and fast.  But I have to keep them watered, otherwise they turn yellow trying to reflect the solar radiation off of them.  When well watered during high heat periods, they can remain healthy and happy and unstressed.

Hotter than July

~Stevie Wonder~
‘Master Blaster’

Everyone’s feeling pretty
It’s hotter than July
Though the world’s full of problems
They couldn’t touch us even if they tried
From the park I hear rhythms
Marley’s hot on the box
Tonight there will be a party
On the corner at the end of the block

You ask me am I happy
Well as matter of fact
I can say that I’m ecstatic
‘Cause we all just made a pact
We’ve agreed to get together
Joined as children in Jah
When you’re moving in the positive
Your destination is the brightest star