Wow, Faron. It's about 32 degrees now on my right shoulder lol. Have PT this afternoon - ice packs are my go to. I live on Cape Cod. Friday night we had about 8" of rain - did a lot of damage to our beaches, basements and utilities. Glad it was rain and not snow.

Can you grow tomatoes where you live??

78 here in the D.C. area at 8:30 am. Going up to 93 with a heat index of over 100 they say. I'll stay parked indoors and plead with DH later when he's done work to wait to mow the lawn until tomorrow when it won't be so blasting hot.

Lol Sea!!!!!! Yep, ND is normally very temperate. Awesome gardening up here. BUT....in Sept, gotta start watching for frost in the forecast.

How is the shoulder & pt going?!??!

Tricky- I didn't know that about Cherry trees! What region are you in? That looks like an older tree?!

JP- I keep forgetting DC-area gets that hot! Fargo can easily get that hot, or worse too, but thankfully it hasn't gotten there this year yet. Western ND has tho'....

Faron

Faron, we are on day ten of our Alaska cruise tour and I have been freezing my tuckus off! Today was not bad...high around 50 and it didn't start to rain until around 6 pm. Yesterday we arrived at the Denali Princess Lodge and it was low 40s, raining and stiff wind blowing!

Saturday we finally had sun after a seven day cruise in the rain. After the train delivered us to the McKinley Princess Lodge it started raining and the temperature dropped. Sunday was low 40s and raining! But Monday morning it was clear and sunny and we had the most magnificent view of Denali, which lasted most of the day! Apparently only 3% of visitors ever see it so clearly.

i can't wait to get back to Florida's 95 degrees on Saturday!

Donna

It was down to 58 last night in NW Missouri. It will be about 80 for a high all week. Although it has been incredibly cool even in the Ozarks over July 4th which usually sees 100.

Our Black Walnuts especially have been turning and dropping leaves.

With the flooding here I saw a giant tree up the road that looked like it was uprooted and pushed over because it had been sitting on the edge of a flooded ditch.

Yes, trees stressing out from lack of rain or just eager to get on with it instead of waiting for Fall. Wait a minute, September begins next week! Oh my gosh. Where did the summer go?

Today the temp is around 77, there's a breeze, low humidity, so I have the tall schoolhouse door and all windows in the rooms open. Curtains and sheers are fluttering. Of course dust bunnies come out from hiding too and go scurrying down the hallway!

Good grief Iowa! That does seem cool for your neck of the woods!

After supper now in Fargo, it's 74 & low humidity. Gorgeous!

School- yes....Aug 23 now. Crazy! My goodness, my 56th B-day is soon here....Sept 16!!

Faron

Welcome to the club, Faron! I just turned 56 last Saturday. :)

Today we arrived in Fairbanks, AK and it's at least in the 70s if not warmer.

Donna

This summer has been so cool in the Midwest I wonder how the rest of the year will be?

Msm- Happy belated! A Lady at work here grew up in Sitka!

To Iowa's comment, because I'm such a geek.......! 1936 was obviously a HOT summer in the Depression. But.....the winter of '35/'36 was VERY cold. ND's coldest temp, -60, was set in W ND. That's unreal!!!

My fave weatherman here is a very scientific-type, & usually softly dismantles "hype-weather" in weekly articles. One season really has nothing to do with another, but it does make good conversation!! Obviously, the heating & cooling of the oceans drive the majority of the "weather engine"! That, & the sunspot-cycles.

Faron

I'm just north of you in Canada. Feels like fall in the mornings! Brrr! Supposed to be 24 C and sunny though the next couple days!

Hello to a Canada friend! I have GOT to get a passport soon!! My brother & I want to get to Wpg & see the Jets & MN Wild play. Tickets are near impossible I hear?!

Our amateur baseball team, the FM-Redhawks, finish this season at Winnipeg for 4 games I think. I always love hearing the 2 National-Anthems! "Oh Canada....." :-)

I'd love to see a CFL game too!

Faron

Dh and ds are going to that Goldeyes game against Fargo!

Jets tickets are $$ but not as hard to get as they used to be according my my dh. Might be cheaper for us to fly to Vegas when that NHL team starts and get tickets there lol :)

Just returned from Fargo--nieces wedding--we found temps very comfortable and you will see 80's this week so summer isn't gone just yet!!

Arcy- that's too cool! If you were S of I94, you weren't all that far away from me! :-)

It was warmer today....86 I think? Tues 88, then 80 on Wed.

Lol Akl! Going to Vegas for a Winnipeg game.....love it! Would sure be warmer for sure during Hockey season! Is it gonna be the LV Knights?

Faron

NW Oregon-we have had horrible weather this year. Late, very late spring so none of our fruit trees even put out blossoms! It was very wet too, then suddenly it morphed into hotter than Satan's arm pit. And the humidity is out of hand. It's 11:30 pm, it's still sultry andt 75 degrees out. Normally we'd be in high 50's at night.

This week we're in for a mixed bag-near normal on Wed then back up near 100 through the weekend. And we've just been slammed with horrible air quality from all the forest fires. I'm so looking forward to cooler temps!