What's the weather like?

Okay, so I was on the phone yesterday with Talia, and she said that PDX was having great weather. Nice and warm. Nice and 70. 70! 70???? That's warm? It's a sad day when people consider 70 degrees warm. I mean, my air conditioner is set to go on at 80. Yes, 80. I'm serious. If I set it to go on at 70, it would be on all day AND all night.

We had rain today. Cooled the entire place down to 72.

Let me explain. Yesterday it was 93. I wore yoga pants and two t-shirts. For school, Kate wore long pants and polo shirt. When she got home she put on a cute little dress with leggings and a scarf. Tanner wore long pants and long sleeve shirt. Reagan and Georgie don't count because they get their clothes so dirty that I can't ever remember what they've been wearing.

Today started out at 89, so I put on long pants and a t-shirt. Then it rained and cooled everything down, so I grabbed my jacket. Yes, my jacket. It was cold out. It was 72 when I climbed into the car, so I put the HEATER on. Now, I'm not too crazy. I didn't turn on the heater in the house. It was the car that I heated. I have the windows open in the house because I want to cool it down, but I am considering finding a blanket.

I am sorry to say that 70 isn't warm. I won't go so far as to say that it is cold, but it is definitely in the "cool" spectrum of weather. It doesn't start to get warm until the thermometer hits 80. Hot is 98. I know most of you in the northwest are shuddering at the idea of 70 being cool, but then consider how much time you spend indoors rather than biking, hiking, walking, playing, splashing, cartwheeling, strolling or any of the other activ-ing things that we do down south, and then maybe you'll understand why I say that 70 is merely cool. After all if 70 was warm then you would be setting up a pool when it was 65 outside. You would be going to the park for a picnic at 62. Boating on a lake at 68. Ideal barbecue weather would be 63 and crawfish boils would happen at 73. So, when y'all come down to visit, just remember that you'll probably be wearing shorts and tank tops, sweating and downing vacuous amounts of Gatorade and water while we'll be comfortable in jeans and t-shirts sipping our Dr. Peppers. It'll be okay. We'll be nice and friendly, like most Texans are, and we'll find you a pair of sunglasses.