Thankfully The Hot Sweltering Summer Days Are Almost Over.

 Back to a normal summer!

Just before sunrise when Maxi and I head out for our morning walk I can feel the end of those hot summer days is near. Heading out without a jacket is already impossible, at least for me. A lovely leftover chill from cooler nights stays well beyond sun-up. A delight after those hot and cloying mornings.

July is almost over and with August the speed of an approaching winter is in full swing. We tend to live day by day, be they eventful or thankfully ordinary, making the seasons interchange at an alarming rate. It feels as if we put our heads down only for a moment to contemplate the minutiae of our life and when we look up a day, week, month or even year has evaporated. 

The powers that be tell us that from now on each summer will be the same if not hotter. If that alone doesn't start someone on the road to stop climate change than what else will? What to do on those ultra hot days where even going outside for a minute feels as though Dante's Inferno has arrived.

Who is to say that in the future we won't invert our work days. Make night into day and day into night. Night-shift the new day-shift...sounds rather cool and attractive.  There is really no other way to navigate a hellish hot future. Where is wine going to be grown? The wine meccas might shift over to a slightly cooler Russia. But enough of that...

Today was and is a perfect summer's day. The morning started off nice and cool with the warmth slowly increasing until a nice and comfortable 28 degrees was reached. Perfect weather to enjoy a summer outdoors. Be it walking in the countryside, swimming at the local pool or sitting under a shady tree sipping a nice cool beverage. A summer's day everyone remembers from their childhood and hopefully not a summer's day that is on the extinction list...

Biggi