Looks Cool ... even at 103 Degrees!
We've been without air conditioning in half the house for the last two weeks (one problem after another!) Then yesterday a transformer blew on our street about 5:00 p.m. and we had no power at all until around midnight - on one of the hottest days of the year!
Such different sounds around the neighborhood without the hum of all those air units, power tools, tvs and boom boxes. For a long while I could hear the lucky folks with pools splashing in them, kids running through sprinklers with shrieks and giggles. We stayed outside, turned our own sprinklers on and moved our chairs so as to catch the most of the breeze cooled through the sprinkler mist and watched Krypto wear himself out chasing, killing and eating water. ;-)
After a bit, the happy sounds around us began to take on a more frazzled sound ... tempers were getting shorter ... more sweaty neighbors stalking around the street looking for signs of a TXU work crew. I started having flashbacks to scenes from the Spike Lee movie Son of Sam and the heat wave power outage in NYC ... ;-)
When the mosquito mob turned nasty we left for our own dinner ... burgers in the coldest joint nearby - and we made them last a long, long time. ;-)
Looks Cool ... even at 103 Degrees!
We've been without air conditioning in half the house for the last two weeks (one problem after another!) Then yesterday a transformer blew on our street about 5:00 p.m. and we had no power at all until around midnight - on one of the hottest days of the year!
Such different sounds around the neighborhood without the hum of all those air units, power tools, tvs and boom boxes. For a long while I could hear the lucky folks with pools splashing in them, kids running through sprinklers with shrieks and giggles. We stayed outside, turned our own sprinklers on and moved our chairs so as to catch the most of the breeze cooled through the sprinkler mist and watched Krypto wear himself out chasing, killing and eating water. ;-)
After a bit, the happy sounds around us began to take on a more frazzled sound ... tempers were getting shorter ... more sweaty neighbors stalking around the street looking for signs of a TXU work crew. I started having flashbacks to scenes from the Spike Lee movie Son of Sam and the heat wave power outage in NYC ... ;-)
When the mosquito mob turned nasty we left for our own dinner ... burgers in the coldest joint nearby - and we made them last a long, long time. ;-)