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A guest photo from Amy Irish eight years ago on the Pasty Cam. I believe Charmaine Bardo has a different last name these days :o)

Good morning.

Good Morning everyone, not as hot today I think! Roasted my butt in a construction Trailer yesterday afternoon for a little bit, think I will do my best to avoid those today!

Good morning! TGIF!

Good morning! My sentiments exactly, Paul.

Look at that mushroom. Holy Cow, what kind is it.

TGIF, and it's payday too!

That mushroom looks like one of those glass globes that folks put in their front yards. Very cool!

Good Morning, you all! Happy Friday! We got up to 91 yesterday and 90 the day before. I had thought we were going to get a little bit of relief today, but NOAA says it will be 86, and they've underestimated the high temp the last two days; the radio is talking about 88, so I guess it will do what it's going to do. I may have to brave it anyway, as I need to go to Saginaw to Sam's Club soon, and I need to go to Target, too. I have to get my 15-year old up to go with me, because it's almost always much cooler in the morning. I've been trying to stay in & avoid errands as much as I can in this heat. I know, Capt Paul & Dr Nat, I've turned into a sissy since I've moved up here, but there are real difference in red cell blood count, which affect your ability to handle the heat, so I've been told. :-)

Congratulations, Thumbgardner on your early bird. How is your husband doing? I forgot when his surgery is/was, but I think it is around now? My thoughts and prayers are with you all!

Margaret, I thought I was the only one who used the expression, "Holy Cow!"! Maybe it's a Texas thing?

Charlie, thank you for the new feature--I just noticed that I get a broken red underline if I have a word that it thinks is misspelled or I haven't finished typing! That will be great to have, since I sometimes type quickly & do something dumb, like have my fingers on the wrong keys or something, especially before I've had enough iced tea! You don't know anyone else who does that, do you? :-)

I forgot to mention that we are headed UP north next week to spend some time with our Mich Tech son for a couple of days. Woot! We leave on Thursday & have to come home on Sunday. It's not nearly as much time as I would like to spend UP there, as I have so many things that I would like to do and so little time! But, it's all our schedule (and budget) will allow with a son in college, including summer school this summer, etc. :-)

I'm really looking forward to getting UP there!

Good morning from Mishawaka, IN.
Marianne, here in northern IN it has been in the 90s the last couple of days also. They are saying it will still be in the 90s until Tuesday. I don't do well when it's this hot. Would have enjoyed a few more 75-80 degree days.
I have had our 6 year old granddaughter the last 3 days. Her brother(9 years old) had his tonsils out and needed extra rest. Needless to say a 6 year old doesn't understand not romping with her brother as usual. We had a great time with her but grandma is tired. Not used to keeping up with a young one.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Everyone is complaining about the temps and ours is 90 already at 1 p.m. The last few days have been in the high 80's also but nice and cool at night. Had a chance to be on Lake Superior the other day to do some fishing and it was very nice. Husband got 2 lake trout and today he smoked them--what a treat.

Aren't they pretty hard to light:).......

Langoman. Grooannn!

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It climbed up into the 90's here in Ontonagon today also! So just as hot and humid! But the evening is turning out to be a beautiful one. I love that it really doesn't start getting dark until after 10:45 pm. You can see the sun just starting to setting above the trees. I love that about the summers UP here! (Summer doesn't start until June 21st though!)

We broke 100 for the third day in a row here in the California Central valley. Cooling down tomorrow to the mid 90's. Never thought that I would think of the 90's as cooling down, that is until I moved out here.

'Twas a balmy 110°F in Phoenix on both June 14 & 15!

So far this year in Phoenix:

Jan	High 78, low 29 (2 days — imagine that!)
Feb	4 days at 80°F or above
Mar	6 days at 90°F or above
Apr	12 days at 90°F or above, 1 day at 100°F or above
May	26 days at 90°F or above, 15 days at 100°F or above, 2 days at 105°F or above
June 1-15	all 90°F or above, 10 days days at 100°F or above, 2 days days at 110°F or above

Hmmm, no wait — maybe I'm the one that's 'balmy' for staying in Phoenix through the summer!

Gee, FRNash, I thought you lived in Phoenix because you liked the heat!

The one time that I was in Phoenix (at least the one that I remember), would have been in May, and it was 106 while we were there. We had an unexpected layover on our flight to California because of a mechanical problem (it was a scheduled stop, just not layover, but the flight had mechanical problems). I used it to go shopping, since we were going to be there for a number of hours with nothing else to do. Anyway, that experience led me to believe that Phoenix is always hot and that only those people who prefer it to be really hot, will live there, at least year around. My aunt lived in Sun City, but she ended up moving to Hawaii to be closer to her son & for more acceptable weather.

Phoenix is a dry heat, which is a lot easier to take than this stuff up here, at least based on my experience. Maybe you should move to Michigan, at least for the summer? Here in mid-Michigan, we have some people who live in Phoenix in the winter, but they come back here about the end of Feb. I hope you enjoy your summer. :-) There used to be a TV show, something about "you asked for it"...That's fairly normal weather for you, so I would have thought that you would have been expecting it. :-) Oh well...

BTW, I used to travel routinely to Fresno, CA, which is normally considered to be in the Central Valley, I least I thought it was. Most of the time I spent there, off & on, over a couple of years, it was in the high 90's to well over 100. :-) Again, that's a pretty dry heat, so it doesn't feel as hot as it does here in Michigan.

Marianne,Fresno is at the southern end of the central valley right you are.
And yes we do get a dry heat, but it is hot none the less. I grew up in Mi. and have lived in both Houston, Tx. and Gulfport, Ms. I will take this dry heat any day over the humidity that those other states have. But imagine walking outside when it is 100+ and a breeze or wind is blowing. It feels like a blast furnace. Any plants that we have on the deck have to be heat tolerant and watered all the time.