109° ish Days

Thankfully some time has passed so my memories of a week of 109/110° have almost melted from my brain, but some embers are still aflame.

I did not know how to capture this week in images, beside borrowing a few photos from Unsplash, so I created the drawing above. No, cactus do not melt at 109°. I think it is around 114°.

It has been a bit toasty this summer, with the local newspaper headline story blazing across the front page that August had been a record scorcher and the article pointed to a record draining July. I picked up an early October edition of the Arizona Daily Star and for extra brownie points, as September was another record month. Now that we have keyed on July, August, and September blowing up the record books it is a no-brainer that this was the warmest summer ever (until next summer!).

Lovely news for someone who is striving to run twice a day.

It is now October 4th and the news above, while a harsh reality, is connected to the fact that it is still hot. Screaming monkey’s hot! We just crawled into November territory and eyeballs scan temperatures around 90.

Ok, enough focus on life in the desert. My internal temperature seems to be on the rise. Time for a wonderful and refreshing iced coffee and a possible winter, maybe.