Hot, Hot , Hot

It's supposed to be 95 today and tomorrow here in Michigan with heat indexes much higher -- into the 100s! Did I mention this was in Michigan?!?! This Northern New York native can tolerate cold like a champ, but I turn into a lazy, whining whimp when it get like this out. Especially this year since pregnancy seems to do very wacky things to your body temperature regulator (whatever the medical term is for that). I pity women with summer babies.

The one thing I like about extreme weather conditions is the way it brings people together. You know, we all complain about the weather together. No, really, what I mean is that people look out for one another. Chad was driving through the car wash this weekend and the young men working there were drenched with sweat from standing in the hot sun all day. So he pulled into the gas station next door and walked back with Gatorade for them. (Sweet guy, huh?) Even the newspaper advises people to look in on their elderly neighbors. So I called the lady who lives next door to check on her this morning and asked if I could run any errands for her (she has a/c but because of a bad fall last summer in the heat the dr. told her not to go out on days like today). I read in the paper about an office building that opened its door for those without a/c. And I heard the checkout clerk at the grocery store ask the pregnant woman in front of me in line (she was showing much more than me) if she would like help out to her car with her groceries.

I like it when we take care of one another. I just wish I was more aware of people's needs even when the weather isn't extreme.