Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 06, 2010

Cleo is peacefully on her way to Dreamland…

when she suddenly finds herself at an unexpected fork in the path….

in the Sept 6th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”, on Sherpa…

Under a barrage of acorns, she attempts to play, as she tells us, with a wild-eyed, Nauga-toothed squirrel…

countering his massive acorn fire with a mere few dozen pounds of playful explosives….

When along comes Clara, to misinterpret the innocent scene.

What is a girl supposed to do with a detonator, if not detonate something?

I know we’ve seen Cleo launch much less provoked attacks, with even more virulent weapons…

Why is Clara so concerned with a bit of back yard fun?

Meanwhile… I keep drifting off myself…

a new heat wave having promoted lethargy.

Even though it’s cooler now, I can’t shake the fatigue I somehow feel from days like this.

Yesterday (Friday) my weather app predicted the mid-80’s, and it turned out to be in the mid 90’s instead…

Today was predicted to be 96° ….. but at 4pm it was reportedly 104°

For tomorrow … today, for those of you just getting up… it threatens… I mean predicts… 108° … with 102° Monday and Tuesday.

Can’t wait to see what they actually turn out to be.

It would be nice if this time the predictions are inaccurate in the other direction.

I can’t really complain… not with some places confronting real weather problems… tornadoes, hurricanes,floods….

and with swaths of wildfires still burning or barely extinguished within 100 miles of me in several directions.

And besides… we do get that wonderful night-time cooling, that brings a 100° day down to 55° or 60° by early morning….

unlike places where some of you are still sweltering at midnight.

Telling myself that doesn’t seem to wake me up, though… sigh…