Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear bike--
It's always something, isn't it? You're getting to be rather expensive, you know.

Dear guy at new (to me) shop--
You're awesome, and you didn't treat me like I'm an idiot when I popped in to look at bikes. If I were guaranteed to be in Cincinnati after I finish this damn MS, and if Trek actually fits me (jury is out), I would probably buy my graduation-present Madone from you.

[bmccasland]

Dear summer, where for art thou???

I had a site visit for my beach restoration project and it was freaking cold! Where is summer???

This is making my crazy father's constant request to come visit in Texas start to look good.

[HappyTexasMom]

Dear Back,

Why did you have to give out on me right when I'm about to move, and during one of the best bike commuting weeks of the year? It's not too hot and not too cold, and I can't ride my bike. And how I'm going to get everything packed and moved when I can barely hoist myself out of bed, I'll never know.

*whine*

[marni]

Dear summer, where for art thou???

I had a site visit for my beach restoration project and it was freaking cold! Where is summer???

This is making my crazy father's constant request to come visit in Texas start to look good.

Oh you don't want to be here now or any time soon. Here in houston, if we are lucky, the nighttime temps get down to the upper 70's, daytime temps are in the high 90's with feels like in the 105 range. There is no cloud cover which means that the temp is already steamy high at 9:00 Am. I don't think the wind has been under 15 and is usually up to the 20-25 mph range for the last month and we have only had an inch of rain since january. The lawns, fields and trees are all looking brown and heat stressed and we here in Katy are all supposed to be in a voluntary heavy conservation effort which means no water to the lawn more often than 2x week and only before 8 am or after 4 pm, odd number houses on odd days, even on even and AC no lower than 82, and please use table fans as much as possible. The latest suggestion from our fine home owners association and lawn gestapo was to bar b que extra food all this weekend and store it for left overs.

And because they can't report any possibility of anything more than the rare scattered showers for the next 7-10 days the weathermen are going into hyperbolic ecstasies reporting on tropical storm Arlene, the first name gulf storm of the hurricane season.

By my count this is week 7 of over 90 daytime temps.

I am ready for fall and we haven't even gotten far past midsummer.

marni