Warm Day in July

[nightdog_barks]

And by warm, I mean it's about 95 degrees and feels like 105. :-P

Layla got me up at about 4 in the morning, woofing (very softly) that she needed to go out (she was lying). Anyway, I was sitting in one of our deck chairs while she lounged on the deck, when our wind chimes suddenly ... chimed. EXCEPT THERE WAS NO WIND. It was dead calm, close and stifling, with what appeared to be a full moon. So I got up and aimed my trusty little flashlight at the chimes. (These are our wind chimes. I love them.)

There was an anole lizard clinging to one of the chimes. "Oh, hello," I said. Made me smile. :D

Reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians, enjoying it so far.

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[hannah]

Aww, lizard! A musically inclined one, even!

[nightdog_barks]

The little anoles are adorable! Of course, Layla thinks they are animated toys and chases them ...

She actually got me up twice last night, and the first time, there was a gecko by a window. So there were two lizards in the night. But only one was musical. We do see wrens on the chimes, sometimes, looking for bugs. :D

[knitty_woman]

It was 102 in LA today for the second day in a row. I'm not used to this heat anymore, but it's good practice, since I'm going to be spending two weeks in Baltimore.

[nightdog_barks]

Ugh, 102 is hot! I follow one of the reporters for the LA Times on Twitter, and he was talking about hot it was. :-P

I think I've been to Baltimore once, but we were just flying in and out to get to Ocean City for a family thing with a sister-in-law. All I remember is that it was windy and we had a huge crab cookout. Oh, and also that there was some kind of Roman Catholic conference going on, and our flight to Baltimore was filled with priests and nuns. We joked that it was probably the safest flight ever. :D

[menolly_au]

We had a string of days around 114 degrees (45-46 celsius) last summer - not looking forward to that again, you guys can keep summer as long as you want it please :)

Love hearing about Layla - she sounds like a lovely dog.

[nightdog_barks]

114, yikes! The hottest it's ever gotten in our area was 113, during the Horrible Heat Wave of 1980.

I need to take some new pics of Layla! We're having not a lot of fun at the moment because she's having a bout of fleas (we think she may have picked them up at the dog park), and ye gods they are such a hassle to get rid of. >:-P