We're still here...

...but barely! The heat started in with a blast and these triple digits temperatures we've been having for the past few weeks are wiping us out. I've been coughing and coughing till my head hurts and now my hair hurts too. I have allergies, because I was tested for asthma and didn't have it - at least not then! The only thing that works for me is Diphenhidramine HCI (Antihistamine) and of course, that makes me sleepy. Poor Gizzy has been sleeping his life away and that's how it will be for the next five months.

This morning, I took Gizzy to the park to brush out his hair since he had a shower with me yesterday morning and he needed to be brushed and clipped.

I took some photos of a dragonfly that just sat there posing for me and didn't leave for the longest time as if she knew I needed her to model for me.

I got a kick out of her because it looked to me as if she actually had a face!

Everything was nice and green, but at 8:30 am it was starting to get too hot for Mr. fluffy boy!

I always bring water no matter where I go. This is where we shared a breakfast sandwich and he got his brushing. (I saved his fur because I'm still trying to get some of it spun into yarn for a little ornament or something small.)

It was so pretty out there, but the air was so hot and miserable, I could barely get enough oxygen to breath, so we did not stay very long since I hate to see Gizzy pant so hard.

That's his "I'm so handsome, I can't stand it!" look. The white car in the background is mine. It's so nice to have one again. The air conditioning runs nice and cold, even if the engine slows down significantly when I use it, so needless to say, when I have to go uphill or accelerate at a traffic light, I have to shut the air off briefly or else I'd get honked at.

We only stayed a little while and after I got home, I  dropped Gizzy off in the air conditioned apartment, so that I could go back to the grocery store to stock up on club sodas, frozen pops and Italian ice. I have a nice, chilled watermelon in the fridge and that's going to be my diet till it cools off. Maybe I will lose some weight so all this suffering will not have been in vain.

Here's Mr. Clean all comfy in his clean and fluffy bed - that's where he stays pretty much all day, except very early in the morning when we get out for a little walk (around 6:30 am.)