Gail Gillette

This hot weather is not a big deal if you have the luxury of staying indoors and enjoying air conditioned comfort. The most you have to worry about is the car being hot when you first get in it. Sometimes the seats in the car are so hot that your legs sweat and stick to the seats. Then when you get out of the car there are these huge red marks on the back of your legs. That is so embarrassing!

Sometimes we like to sleep outside and pretend to be camping. Before we had to move, we had a big trampoline in the back yard and we would sleep on that. It was nice to be up off the ground and able to see the stars and the night sky. It was a different way to sleep and appreciate being outdoors. But it is so hot this summer that I don’t think I would like sleeping outside. It was still over 90 degrees last night at midnight. That is just too hot to sleep!

My dog seems to have become a trash dog. He loves to get into all the trashcans and take out whatever he can to play with it. Especially the bathroom trashcan, for some reason. I think a lot of dogs do this, though. So now I need to keep the lid on the trashcan so he can’t get to any of the trash. I hope it works, he’s a smart dog so he’ll probably figure it out anyway and still get the trash. But if that happens, I’ll just deal with it then and figure out another way keep him out of it.