The Blackburn Digest

Alternate title: “Cool weather craziness!”

 Despite spending some 29 years of my life in So. Central Texas (including the past 26+), I have not been able to develop a fondness (or much tolerance) for the very hot, amazingly humid summer weather this region offers! When the thermometer climbs to 95 degrees or higher during the day and refuses to drop below 79 degrees at night, and the humidity seems to get stuck in the 63%-99% range, my batteries run down very quickly.  Since “summer” seems to reign supreme for most of the local calendar year, this is . . . .a bit of a problem - LOL!  Sure, there is air conditioning in the stores I visit, but each errand takes me out into the heat and then back to a super-heated car. If I have lots of errands to run, they are usually close enough together so that the car never truly cools off between stops. Yes, Casa Blackburn is air conditioned, but running the unit at a setting which would truly make me comfortable (when I’m physically active) would cause an insane leap in the electric bill ! The thermostat is set at “liveable if I don’t move too fast”, instead.