What I’m doing
Just about the same as you Darlyne except I didn’t shop for junk food for g’kids; I mailed a couple of books instead. But also like you, melting was on the menu. So I did the books and scooted right back home to the AC, iced peach tea (or a a very good friend calls it — girl tea!) and a book. Excess heat warnings for tomorrow thru Monday also. Yuck.
BTW did I happen to mention over the winter that all of the folks in the apt complex had a surcharge levied for the gas used over the winter. December thru April payments plus the regular month’s rent of course totalling some $250-$300 for that 4-5 month time span. Well, our rents were just raised – mine went from $725 to $780 and according to the letter, it is hoped that this raise will not necessitate the need for that surcharge. I do sincerely hope that is the case.
Otherwise, all is well here.
Anyone out there care for Victorian mysteries? Susan and Bill Albert have written a series featuring Lord Charles and Lady Catherine Sheridan. She is an American who came to England at the behest of her aunt, who was looking for a secretary. Kate is Irish-American whose parents died and whose aunt and uncle (a policeman) raised her. She is also a novelist under the pseudonym of Beryl Bardwell and a most independent woman. Her husband, Lord Charles, treasures her. The stories take place at the ending of Victoria’s reign and into Edward’s, with the advent of telephones, automobiles and the beginning of the end of the ‘pleasures’ of the British nobility. The first book, if anyone is interested, is Death at Bishop’s Keep.
Jo