Weeks to come

We are facing one more week of high temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit, including three more days of temperatures over 100.Then we'll get a week with highs in the 80s. And finally, a week with highs in the 70s, in early July.

Making do

Last night I had the guest bedroom and Walt tried to sleep on the sofa in the living room. It was hot when I went to bed, but sometime before midnight I threw the windows open and there was some movement of air, so I was able to sleep. Walt says the sofa is too soft for good sleeping, and he ended up going back upstairs for a while. We have a big fan up there. He turned that on and opened some windows, but he said he was still uncomfortably warm.

Downstairs in the guest room, I got about four hours of sleep. Then I got up at 4:30 to let Tasha to do her business and then to feed her. Walt heard me and the dog, so he came downstairs to see what we were doing. She's fed, I told him. And I said he should go lie down on the guestroom bed, close to a big window that was wide open. There was some movement of air from the back yard, but you could hardly call it a breeze. Anyway, he got two or three hours of shut-eye. I finished opening windows all around the house and took a little snooze on the living room sofa.

This morning Walt went down to the garage and succeeded in locating an air mattress we used to use on camping trips in California. We pumped it up and it seems to holds air. I hope Walt will be able to sleep on it tonight. The bad news is that today and tonight are supposed to be even hotter than yesterday and last night. It's already getting warm and muggy this morning.

Our temperatures this week...

...in degrees Fahrenheit. These are Accuweather predictions

for Saint-Aignan from June 22 to June 28, 2010.

Sunday - 104º

Monday - 110º

Tuesday - 109º

Wednesday - 110º 

Thursday - 108º

Friday - 99º

Saturday - 93º

Yikes!

Yesterday afternoon at about five o'clock I went out to take a short walk with Tasha. We walked out through the greenhouse, which felt like we we were walking through an oven. I looked at the thermometer in there, and it showed the temperature as 50ºC. That's 122ºF. The two skylight windows in the greenhouse were wide open, as was the doorway that leads out into the back yard.