Hot.

We didn't have air conditioning until the summer of 2000 (when I was pregnant with Molly, and due in September). When I'm not pregnant, there are only a handful of days each summer that I'm really glad to have air conditioning. Today actually would have been bearable: without a/c, we'd have spent most of the day outside in the shade. It was very hot, but for much of the day it wasn't humid, and there was a pretty good breeze.

Really hot nights without air conditioning are just awful, though. It's 84 degrees outside right now (at 1 a.m.!), and muggy.

Oddly, the grocery store this afternoon was empty. I can understand why a bad snowstorm keeps lots of people at home, but heat? The grocery store is air conditioned and plenty of people around here don't have any a/c. You'd think they'd not only go grocery shopping, some would take the opportunity to do nutritional comparisons on different cereal brands and things like that. Nope. Shortest lines ever.

The car was really hot, though, to the point that I wondered if I could bake a pot roast in the back seat of my car, if I parked it in the sun. I had to use my driving gloves to keep the steering wheel from burning me. (I keep a pair of cotton gardening gloves in my glove compartment. I got this idea from Ed; I'm not sure if he is unusually clever, or if everyone else but me has always done this, and I'm a dope for never thinking of it until I saw Ed's glove-compartment gloves. Ed uses them both on very hot days, when the steering wheel is too hot to touch, and on chilly days if he forgets his regular gloves. I can't recall every forgetting my mittens; I keep them in the pockets of my jacket starting in, oh, late September or something like that. But they're very helpful on hot days.)

We had dinner with friends (not pot roast, needless to say). And now I should go to bed. According to weather.com, the temperature has actually gone up> a degree while I was typing this: it is now 85 degrees. I am awfully glad I have air conditioning.