Yours truly has been inconsistent!! I write that I am **NOT** going to bore you with endless pictures of thermometers. However, when I see triple digits, the camera comes out and I record the temperature. Forgive me?! Currently, I’m curious about the “inconsistent” messages about the heat. The sensor for my indoor-outdoor weather station is in shade, in a tree. It says 100 while the thermometer in my rocking lawn chair–in the shade of the awning–says (approximately) 94. AccuWeather says 96. ~~ Oh well, when it’s this hot, why question four or six degrees? “Real Feel” is 108 degrees.

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One thing is consistent: Eighty-three degrees inside my trailer home. During the extreme heat of the day, that’s the best temperature my air-conditioner can produce.

Originally published July 11th, 2016. Revised while watching the Olympics (in my rear view mirror).

A CARE resident is on vacation and asked me to “care” for his plants. Early the morning of July eleventh (6:15 AM), I watered the plants in his yard. His “house” plants were already in my custody. Not in the instructions, unscheduled, I brought the hanging baskets back to my yard. They were “bone dry” so I gave them a soaking. I need (needed) to do some Internet searches to become familiar with several of the plants. Maybe I can (could) revive them?? The African Violet is a challenge; I know nothing about them!!

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“Plant sitting” has been a volunteer task the past couple of years. Last Winter I sheltered a Begonia from freezing temperature. It was my opinion the plant needed trimming. I did… and stuck the cuttings into planters. They are doing well and will eventually go to our Thrift ‘n Gift Shop, for sale.

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A Christmas Cactus was nurtured and thrived. See November 2015 pictures. ~~ Other plants given tender loving care.

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Postscript, Aug. 8, 2016: At 6:15 AM, I walked the football-field-length to CARE neighbor’s yard–planning to water his plants. “He’s home!” ~~ So his houseplants were moved to the patio and are ready and waiting….

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More than one billion viewers of the Opening Ceremony (according to the media).

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Multitasking?? No, multi-pleasure!! I have free WiFi from the CARE Center (to create these blog messages). I have free TV via a through-the-air antenna. My trailer home is cool and comfortable via the recently installed air-conditioner. Earlier today, I shopped for groceries and have enough food for the duration of the Olympics!!

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Forgive me?! I intended to refrain from pictures of the thermometers. This afternoon I wanted to check temperature against the thermostat setting. Wow, big discrepancy!!

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“Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back.” Conclusion: Just too hot outdoors yesterday afternoon so impossible for A/C to reach the requested seventy degrees.

IMHO, never let my little cracker-box home get hot as an oven. If it is cool during the night, the A/C may keep it cool all day?!

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At seventy-one degrees, at nine PM, it was too cool (imho)!! I climbed on the step-stool and changed the thermostat (from seventy to eighty). ~~ Experiment completed.

Inspiration!!

1. “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
   – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
2. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
   – David Allen
3. “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
   – Calvin Coolidge

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