Summer Heat

Well, we are finally getting some of it! After days, weeks, of rain, today is a scorcher. My little house, with its long row of windows facing the sun all day, struggles mightily to keep cool, with the help of one hard-working air-conditioner. I didn't get to the pool today, though it would have been nice. Lena went swimming at kindy. Joanne and Emily and Masaki came to visit today. They went upstairs at one point, and though they opened the windows, they all came back in ten minutes sweating. It is SO hot up there!

Mike gave me a pile of sketchpads for Amy today. Here is the picture she drew - I call it an allegory of weather. She calls it The Whole World: