The house only cooled down to 70* last night. Not supposed to be as hot today, as it was yesterday, but when you start off at 70*, it's gonna be tough to stay cool. I didn't wanna run the ACs today! Huuuuu! lol #PNW #IHateSummer

I'm on a baking binge. I just wish I had more people to give it to. The 4 of us only eat so much. Tomorrow I am making a peach cobbler bunt cake! :)

I have two loaves of different banana bread in the oven. (Even though it's hot AF. I needed to bake.)

One is just banana bread, but I used a container of banana baby food in it, in addition to the bananas.

The other is banana blueberry, with one mashed banana, a handful if fresh blueberries and a container of blueberry-banana baby food.

We'll see how they turn out.

Going to be HOT in my neck of the woods today. Will be an AC day. I've kept them off the last few days, as the heat was tolerable. Not today! lol #PNW

Will be a reading, laundry, TV day, as I cannot use my PC and the AC in my office at the same time. lol Pops the breaker! Blargh.

I think Im going to make myself a meatloaf sammich and watch Willy Wonka. Gene Wilder one. The only one worth watching, imo. #Thoughts

@KazzyH It's not normal!! I swear, the summers of my youth were vastly different from the ones we get now! I do NOT like this new summer weather. It's too dry, too hot! Just miserable. :(

I am going to run some errands this morning, then it's homebound for the week!

Hubbs is OOT again for work, so it's just me, the kids and the fur-kids. Good time to hibernate!
Gonna be hot all week. Lookin like we won't get a drop of rain the whole month of July. Blergh. #PNW

The pistachio cheesecake I made turned out really good! It was beautiful and tastes great! Husband even liked it and he isn't a bug sweets/desserts person. #Food #Baking #Dessert

@th3j35t3r Oooh nooooo! :(

I just pulled a pistachio cheesecake outta the oven.

It smells good. It looks nice and fluffy, but it's a little jiggly...I am unsure if that's due to being undercooked, or just the...lift...the fluffyness...of the cake itself. It cooked the recommended time, maybe even a tad longer, cause I forgot about it...lol...It shouldn't be undercooked!

@KazzyH I think the highest wind we get, is in the 30-40mph range. So, not really. It's been knocked cattywampus once in the wind, where it disrupted service. We have it on the roof. The dishes detect snow and will warm up when needed, to keep the snow off, which is nice. Other than when there's a global outage, we don't really have issues with it. Runs smoothly!

@KazzyH We were stuck with DSL speeds. 10mb down, 1mb up. Then the pandemic hit and I had 3 kids at home, doing homeschooling though Zoom, for 18 months. It was awful!! We finally got Starlink in 2022, after being on the wait list/beta list for years. It's made such a difference in our QoL at home, which sounds....Silly, but good internet has become a staple in everyone's daily lives, just like the need for power.

@KazzyH Sounds similar to us. We live about 700ft off a main road (50mph), down a dirt driveway. Comcast in the main rd. Wanted over $10k to run it the 700ft down our driveway. We told them to kick rocks.

I have Starlink. I hate Musk. I love my Starlink. It has been a game changer for us. As shitty as Musk is, Starlink is a TERRIFIC service and I have nothing but good things to say about it!

@lifeinthePNW I was JUST looking at the whole house exhaust fans last night!

We have one window, up way high at the front of the house, like in the stairwell, kinda, where the sun just beats through. I was looking at remote control shades for it, It's too high to get to on a regular basis, so a "regular" shade won't work.

Oh, my bad. We hit 99.0* with 91% humidity. :D

I repeat. I. Hate. Summer.

We hit a humid 98.2*f yesterday in my lil corner of the #pnw. It was 80* INSIDE my house, WITH a/c units running all day. They just couldn't keep up. Ugh.

Today is supposed to be about 10* cooler, so, I'll take it. I hate summer. :D #wawx

Nothing can seem to hold my attention recently. Not for very long, anyway. TV, video games, books.....Nada. I've been very restless.
It's too hot to go outside, my garden is all tended to anyway.
I lost my debit card, so I can't go do anything, not that I want to anyway...lol Blargh, I say! BLARGH!

10am and it's 80*f. I am not cut out for this kinda heat! lol #PNW #wawx

Going to be close to 100*F here today. I do not have central air conditioning, we have 3 portable units to try and cool the house, and one is on it's last legs. lol *sigh*

Gonna be a tough one!!

I ordered some wax melts and of course they are being delivered tomorrow, the hottest day of the year so far. lol

Here's to hoping they aren't too melted by the time they arrive.