easy bake oven......

ok, so i just came in from closing the garage doors.......have to keep out the bat that has been hanging out during the day in the rafters.......the summer evening air is so far from cool as to be beastly.....not hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk....but warm enough to dehydrate........should i take the time to snip what chives remain in the herb bed......they could be considered dried herbs rather than fresh.......what an offensive turn the weather has taken......this evening i took the time to water the trees that seem to be stressed........especially the sweetgum tree that my dad planted the day we moved here......and the oak-leaf hydrangias....and the japanese maple.....and the redbuds.......each and every plant seems on the verge........a watering forgotten could mean certain doom.......i have no earthly idea how we survived all of those years (the 80's and the 90's) without whole house airconditioning......we did have an attic fan......which helped on days with temperatures below 95 or so.....but with heat indexes above 100 degrees......oy........it is such a luxury to have a cool place to sleep........maybe we shoud let the big dog sleep inside tonight......it is just as hard on him in this heat as it is when temperatures dip below zero.........