Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[ConcinusMan]

It's 101° in the shade here. Birdbath has been filled twice today. I'll be setting out a sprinkler later tonight so the radixes have a place to get a drink and catch some worms.

Wow. We finally got a sunny day today. A mere 81 F but that's way warmer than it has been. As usual, it won't last long. Rain expected to be back by thursday night. Jeez. The real "feels like summer" weather will probably come around right about when summer is over and by then, it will feel like winter again. Don't blink, or you'll miss summer in western WA. So far, it still isn't really here yet. It feels like late December did in Southern California. Wait, no, that was nicer than this.

[katach]

So true!

[Steveo]

Colorado wildfire: Aerial photo shows about 300 homes destroyed in Waldo Canyon Fire - The Denver Post

Waldo Canyon is not the biggest fire, but it's burning within Colorado Springs city limits. ~300 homes destroyed so far as revealed by aerial photography.

The Feds are taking over to contain a small fire near Boulder before it gets out of hand. Currently at about 300 acres.

The weather helped a bit last night. A little rain (we only get about 12" of rain a year and most of that is in snow form), cooler temps and more help arriving are always good.

[tress29]

I've been single for 10 years now. With 5 kids still at home not much time to think about it let alone do anything about it.

Four years for me. Guess I should at least try to start dating.

[ConcinusMan]

Colorado wildfire: Aerial photo shows about 300 homes destroyed in Waldo Canyon Fire - The Denver Post

Waldo Canyon is not the biggest fire, but it's burning within Colorado Springs city limits. ~300 homes destroyed so far as revealed by aerial photography.

The Feds are taking over to contain a small fire near Boulder before it gets out of hand. Currently at about 300 acres.

The weather helped a bit last night. A little rain (we only get about 12" of rain a year and most of that is in snow form), cooler temps and more help arriving are always good.

I heard much of CO has broken heat records dating back to the 1870's. Wow.

[Steveo]

I heard much of CO has broken heat records dating back to the 1870's. Wow.

Yeah, we hit 108 degrees in Denver the other day, 103 the day before. I think humidity was in the single-digits but it's still pretty brutal. Today's high is "only" 93. I think our average for this time of year is mid-80s.

I'm from the east coast so the heat here just has a different feel. In MD, a temp of 100 degrees + the humidity gives a heat index of ~115. CO is so dry that the heat index is lower than the actual temp. MD summers are like living inside someone's mouth whereas CO summers are like putting your head in an oven.

The dry winter and spring, the high temperatures, and the pine bark beetle aftermath are really a perfect storm for fire season. As far as I know most of the fires were started by lightning so they're not even something that could have been prevented.

[EasternGirl]

Wow...I lived in Greeley for a while. I am very saddened to hear about what is going on out there with the wildfires. I will pray for everyone. Steveo...what you and your friend are doing for the evacuated animals is a wonderful thing. I always get so worried about the animals in situations like this. I wish I was out there to help.

Tress...skip the dating thing...it's just a mess. I was perfectly happy alone until I tried to start dating. It would have to be a pretty sure thing to get me to try it again at this point. Sure, it sucks when I go to my pool and it's full of happy families...I feel like I stand out like a sore single thumb. But how does that old song go..."Owner of a lonely heart...much better than an owner of a broken heart"...or something like that.

[EasternGirl]

Oh...I forgot to mention a funny thing that happened last night. My father is disabled and spends most of his time in his room in his bed...don't feel bad...he is also an alcoholic ***. Sorry for the language. He is quite the pig too...he eats constantly and leaves food all over his room. So all of the sudden last night he calls my mother into his room and tells her that he is sure that he heard something crawling around under his bed...and did one of my snakes get out?! Lol. My mom and I were cracking up. I told her to tell him snakes don't crawl and you can't really hear them slithering around. He said it sounded like something moving on paper. I said he probably has a rat or a mouse in his room because he keeps it so nasty in there! Ha ha ha. I really wouldn't want any of my snakes going in that room. I don't think they would go in there if they managed to escape either. I said...stick the cat in there under the bed and if there is a mouse in there...he'll catch it. Just kidding...poor mouse will probably run out of there soon enough.

[ConcinusMan]

CO summers are like putting your head in an oven.

Do that often? I do know what you mean though. I live in the Mojave Desert remember. Just here in the NW again for a few months, perhaps until Sept.

Just 85 degrees can be downright miserable in western WA, (75% humidity is a b****) but 95 or even 100 in the desert isn't miserable at all and the high desert cools way down, really fast after sunset. Very tolerable even at 100 degrees, since the humidity is usually only between 4-7 percent.

[Steveo]

I'm hearing that conditions have been pretty good for the last 24hrs or so. A small percentage of people have been allowed to go home. It's getting cloudy again so hopefully we'll get a few more rain showers. Even a 15 minute sprinkle will help.