Whooee

The thermostat does not lie. Only 33% of homes in Seattle have AC, and we're not one of them.  It got up to 98 outside yesterday afternoon, a record, and by evening the house was cooking. I tossed and turned for a while, then eventually gave up and went down to the much cooler basement bedroom.  Our upstairs floor fan was blowing hot air around like a convention oven.

Exactly 5 months ago, Washington state basically shut down to stop the spread of the virus: schools, restaurants, gyms, libraries, community centers, most stores, pools, parks, sports and entertainment venues. We were one of the first states to close and are among the last to reopen.

Week after week, the new cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain fairly stable in King County.  This is both good news and sadly frustrating, because we're stuck at "stage 2" reopening for the foreseeable future.  If things change for the worse, we may go back to "stage 1" in the fall.

However, you would never know it by the amount of traffic, and people on the streets and in the stores again. But to everyone's credit, I rarely see a maskless face in West Seattle. 

With all the usual places to cool off closed, Alki Beach looked something like this yesterday. No, thanks.

So Sunday was just another long day at home for us. At least the neighborhood was quiet. Too hot for people to work outside or walk their dogs, and many headed off to the water. As a reward for good stay-at-home behavior, I made pepper-jack cheeseburgers on the grill.

Back to more normal weather this morning. It's a pleasant 70 degrees now, and today will be about 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. Yes, another one at home.