Hi guys,
It's another scorcher out here in eastern Colorado. It's gotten up to 100 degrees several days recently.
I have fans running all night in an attempt to cool off the house. My goal is to get interior of the house below 70 degrees. Then I shut all the windows.
Evan is working on the trash truck this summer. Isn't that a good job for the summer before you start college?
The trash truck drops him at the house for lunch and picks him up again. Before eating lunch, he changes from stinky clothes into clean clothes, then scrubs his face, hands and arms. I usually prepare his lunch, much to Meg's annoyance. She wants me to cook for her, too. When she rides around all day on a hot, stinky garbage truck, I will fix her lunch.
Evan, ate his lunch today, then disappeared. I found him in bed under a down quilt. 'It's too cold in the kitchen,' says he. I cracked up!
Love,
Aunt Ellie

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