Let the heat wave begin.

It has received much fanfare: we’ve been hearing about it for over a week. It has been delayed, downplayed, intensified and exaggerated for 8 days now, but it has finally arrived. According to some arcane site on the web, it is 102° in the greater Hood River-White Salmon metropolitan area.

While some may find that refreshing cool and invigorating, there are two black cats, two Saints and one crotchety, late-middle-aged man who are less than happy.

But we were given plenty of time to prepare. And prepared we are. The freezer is laden with ice, the fan is on full tilt, the yard has been saturated and I’m well versed in every known “heat-wave” whine.

I’d write more, but it is just too hot. My fingers are sweating from the heavy typing. Do me a favor and just imagine the rest of the witty repartée. You know it would really be amazingly funny!