Just before Monsoon. We really need that Monsoon breeze…
Because until we get it the only good thing about the afternoon indoor temperature is that it’s a helluva lot cooler than the afternoon outdoor temperature. This is the high desert so in twelve hours it’ll be unpleasantly cool – but it won’t stay that way long once the sun comes up. I tend to try and get any real work I need to do done in the morning, because afternoons are spent pursuing shade-seeky behavior.
Good news is that the prickly pears are blooming…
Bad news is that nobody has collected all the damned prickly pears and transformed them into nice cool refrigerated brandy.
Remembering what happened four years ago, this is my season of maximum water consumption.
100 degrees in mid June? Colour me impressed, but not envious..
That’s indoors. The exterior sensor on my cool indoor/outdoor digital thermometer bought the farm, so I don’t know what the outdoor temp is except hotter/cooler than indoors. In the afternoon, in the sun, it’s substantially hotter outdoors. But once the sun goes down it cools off substantially quicker outdoors. The one nice thing about Monsoon is the cool evening breeze, which right now we don’t get.
That kinda heat is what I call “crotch pot cooking” weather.
Maximum water consumption with 50% or more real unadulterated cranberry juice…