Holy Hell!

According to The Weather Channel and all of the news stations, we are currently on "Excessive Heat Watch." No fucking shit!! I took this picture at 0630 this morning:

Um, yeah, I think we should be careful today with the excessive heat! Last night, Mandy was physically ill. The heat took its toll on her, and her poor body couldn't take it. She was doing her best to stay hydrated, and I thought each of the girls had had plenty of water to drink. We even had them swim in the pool in order to stay cool since even switching from the evap to the A/C wasn't doing much good since we have had weird humidity. It's the *desert*! Why are we having clouds, dry lightening, and thunder?! Mandy commented, as she lay on the floor, that it was "just too hot to even think!" I did tell her that it would help to remove her socks, which she finally did.  (She has this weird thing about her feet not being covered.)

So, as I was still sweating at 9 pm last night because it was still over 90*, I came across this little beauty on Facebook.  Loved it!

When I woke up this morning, I realized that the evap cooler was already going. Holy Mother of God! It was just after 0600 and the cooler is already working??? That is just not right! Well, I have checked on my elderly neighbor and she is doing fine. In fact, she was headed into the Sheriff's Department to get an "extra" duty today as a Sheriff's volunteer in order to look out for the other "Old People" that were on her list. God, I love Linda!