It started out overcast, which I celebrated. Not that I thought we had a chance of rain........ Rather, hoping that the overcast might keep the temperature below 100. But, no, we're at 102 (in the shade) already. It will probably get a little hotter before the sun sets. I'm very tired of feeling hot and sweaty. Yes, I have air conditioning. Yes, the air conditioner is running. Of course I have the temp set as high as I can stand it to save on the power bill.
We are in what Nevada calls its "monsoon season". That generally lasts from mid July til the end of August, but rarely results in rain. Of the next 14 days, there are 6 that are marked "mostly sunny". The rest are marked "partly cloudy". I think it rained somewhere in the area one day last week. As usual, this place did not get enough to wet the visible area of concrete around the house (driveway, front porch, and patio).
For a while now, I've been trying to figure out how I could put solar on this place. For various reasons, I've more or less abandoned that idea. I felt bad about that decision til I read an article from the UK the other day. It stated that in England's heatwave, where they are having temps up to 100 and are finding problems with their solar. Seems they've found that with every degree of heat over 77, the solar systems are less and less effective. Even more concerning, they are experiencing spontaneous combustion of the solar panels in extreme heat. I just checked and in the next 14 days, we do not expect to see 77 or below, not even at night. The thought of turning myself inside out to figure out how to get solar holds much less appeal that it did a few days ago...........
I was remembering something a few minutes ago. Sometime in the early 80's my parents came for their summer visit. My mother came armed with a bottle of nitro glycerin because she was experiencing a lot of pain and had been diagnosed with angina pectoris. It seemed that daily, by late afternoon or evening, we were all gathered around the couch, praying, while she lay there, putting nitro pills under her tongue. It was a very high-stress, fearful time. My kid may have been too young to realize what was happening, but, believe me, my father and I were on pins and needles. She went through this for a good 12-15 years. Then they removed her gall bladder which was full of large gall stones. Suddenly, no more "angina" pain.
I wish I could tell you her angina was "healed". I DO believe in divine healing and have personally seen it and experienced it in my own life. Instead, it was a misdiagnosis which was not discovered for more than a decade. To think of the amount of pain she endured and the amount of stress, we, her family, experienced, really makes me angry. There are many reasons why I don't like doctors. This is one of them. Don't trust them, never will...........
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