Summer Solstice Saturday

No basketball. No football. No Tiger Woods golf. No interest in baseball. Seen all the movies on the DVR. Don't wanna go to the pool, but the SugarPlum will drag me down there anyway. Yesterday was one of my brother's birthday... he's a Gemini. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm a Cancer... so now I'm more fifty than forty! Don't wanna fire up the grill, but can't stomach another fast food burger with fries. Can't post about Obama. Don't wanna read about Hillary. And McCain is just too easy. Don't wanna complain too much, but there's not much to cheer about. Gas is too high to just drive around. And it's too hot and humid to walk. Today is the Summer Solstice, well, it occurred just before midnight last night. Did I mention that tomorrow is another birthday in plezWorld?

Atlanta Urban Heat Island

Saturday represented the fourth straight day that the Atlanta area has had temperatures at or above 100 degrees. It has never been this hot for so long in this part of the country. But growth and development has replaced much of the lush forestry that used to cover Atlanta (and its suburbs) with asphalt and concrete - we lose 55 acres of forestry per day.

The video shows the unintended consequences of growth in Atlanta:

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As you can see by the thermometer in my car (as I zoomed around I-285 at 75 mph), we had another scorcher, with no letup in sight.

On Sunday, it is supposed to "cool down" to the upper-90's.

Tomorrow, I guess my daughter and I will go chill out by the pool.

Hotter than July

Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder from the "Hotter than July" LP

After surviving the shortest Spring in recent memory, Summertime rolled into Georgia this week and it is definitely "HOTTER THAN JULY" around here. I know the official start of Summer is still over a month away, but I'm already feeling the heat!

Spring got a very late start this year: early April. And it didn't stick around very long either, as evidenced by the thermometer in my car this afternoon. Yeah, it registered 107 degrees on the afternoon of May 11! Al Gore must've been on to something with his treatise on global warming, it felt like another glacier was fixing to slide into the Atlantic this afternoon!

My summertime routine began this week: the sprinklers are set to water the lawn every other day (I can't remember the last time we had any substantial rain), the cushions are in place on the lawn chairs, the grill is cleaned and ready to go, and i sat outside this evening under the stars sipping on a cold tall one! And how can I forget, all of the cooling units and ceiling fans are up and running.

plezWorld is gonna take it easy and settle in for a long, hot summer... as the weather will be like this until September!