Time to estivate

Temperature 77 F already.  Worked up a bit of sweat just walking for the newspaper, before 7 AM.

Yes, you may laugh.  But our high (as noted publicly) a few days ago was 57 F...

Think I'll go install the air conditioner.  Which will, in the natural course of nature, cause snow.

Oh, and as an addendum to yesterday's "roadkill report", Wife says that the UFO was most likely a painted turtle.  It wasn't a snapper, going by the color of the shell fragments, and anything else would be exceedingly rare.

Installation complete

Window-mount air conditioner in place and running.  I have the thermostat set to a virtuous 78 F, and the damned thing is cycling on and off.  This in a house where we were snuggled up in sweaters two days ago...

About horse racing

The various racing commissions go to great lengths to make sure that jockeys, trainers, and owners are honest.  How about the horses?  I haven't had a great amount of experience with equines, but even in that little, I have met some of the critters that would lie, cheat, and steal.  And sneer at you while doing it.

I think Big Brown threw the race.

Another man done gone

Algis Budrys (1931 - 2008)

I think the first thing of his I read was "The War Is Over", back in the 1950s.