Hot, Hot, Hot and A Really Nice Neighbor

I feel a little bad for writing this after I jokingly chided a friend for complaining about the HOT and HUMID Missouri summer weather, but this is starting to get ridiculous. In Pennsylvania it is not uncommon to see the occasional 3 day span of weather with temps in the 90s. If I recall correctly, it happened once or twice last summer, but not more than that ... temps in the 80s were the norm. So earlier this week after a few days in the 90s, I expected things to temper off after a day or two - maybe a few days of showers to cool things off, and see the temps drop back into the 80s ... boy did I have that wrong! We've had at least 4 days straight in the 90s, and after watching the local weather report last night, we can expect these temps to last into next week! The lowest "Hi" temp for the next 5 days was predicted to be 93 ... there was no rain at all in the forecast!

If we had moved to Florida, I would expect weather like this in the summer, the comfort being that we would at least be close to the beach. Not so here. The funny thing is that the locals here seem to be proud of the heat - like it is a mid-west badge of honor or something. The only thing I can liken this to is the summers I spent working in the laundry rooms at Messiah College. Spending summer days working in the basement of an old building with five industrial gas powered dryers was enough to squeeze the last drop of sweat out of anyone.

The bright side to the story is that we have a couple of swimming pools to go to here at the apartment complex - so if you are looking for a safe bet to invest some extra cash - I would recommend a popular sunscreen company because we will be buying plenty of it this summer!

On a completely different note, we received a very nice and completely unexpected surprise late the other night. One of our neighbors works for a popular chocolate company (obviously not Hershey's), and she came knocking on our door bringing a "welcome to the neighborhood" gift ... a nice sized box of chocolate covered strawberries! No secret that those are two of my favorite foods ... not to mention how much a certain pregnant woman was loving that gift as well. Needless to say, we have some really cool neighbors here!