The temps over the weekend were crushing. How hot was it?
- So hot the Jehovah’s Witnesses were proselytizing by email
- So hot the bees took off their yellow jackets
- So hot my dress trousers became sweat pants.
OK, enough with the :snorf: but here’s proof of how hot it was.
This thermometer is in the shade on our patio. 117F / 47C. Ai yai yai.
Fortunately, since then the temperatures have been declining at the rate of 2 – 3 degrees per day.
So, once again, how hot was it? Enough to make a Maltese sweat.
“I don’t care if air-conditioning is expensive.”
Categories: The Dog From Rancho Cucaracha
WITHIN THE K STREETS 
That is HOT!!! You’re a trooper.
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It was tough. I had to go all the way to the garage to the beer fridge to replenish my source of hydration.
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Poor Max….I trust you had staff with peacock feather fans on duty 24/7 to keep him cool…or did you have to act as the punkah wallah?
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Hey Lady, just who you callin’ a पङ्खावाला ? Huh? Huh? I’m told that the ideal punkahwallah is deaf, so as to not overhear confidential discussions. So I guess I fit the bill although I’m selectively deaf since I always hear the dinner bell and yet never hear the AJF when she calls on me to do chores.
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Selective deafness must be genetically inbuilt in men….
I haven’t been called a lady for some time…ah yes, not this time either…just ‘lady’. There is a difference…..
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What? Did you say something?
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You stole our Arizona weather.
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Yeah it was like winter at Cave Creek.
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Hi Max, Buddy the Maltese dog & I know how you feel. We weren’t quite as hot as you were, but it was very humid and hot in conn. last week. Forunately, we have central air on both levels of our house. Next heat wave, Max you are more than welcone to come a stay with buddy and I. If you do not have air conditioning yet.
Stay cool,
Buddy & Audrey Tavel
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Max is sympathetic to Buddy because your East Coast humidity is really uncomfortable. Although my post may not have been clear, Max actually lives in a central air house and rarely deals wit the heat except for pee breaks.
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Poor Max. He really sweats a lot. Hahahah! That heat–whew! Our heat index has not even been that high yet. That’s crazy. Stay cool, man.
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Yeah, he was really soaked. (And really miffed.)
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Yipes. I am officially humbled and will stop whining. Oh hell I will. It’s still damn hot here though not nearly Rancho Cucamonga hot. And yes, I am a real wuss.
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You’re going to stop whining? Lawsy, lawsy, lawsy it must be the end of days, dogs and cats together, night into day, the dogpocalypse! OK maybe I overdid it a bit. 😉
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Probably need to find a new foil to complain about since this whole heat thing has gotten pretty tiresome. But dang…117? Gah!
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Oh, we’ll find something to grouse about.
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Prolly. Lack of beer for starters. 😂
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Lack of beer is an existential crisis. We don’t joke about that.
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No way, no how. Seems like a criminal offense in my books.
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Holy cow! You guys stay cool!
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As long as there is a kitchen sink with sprayer, that doggo will be cool. Hateful but cool.
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Shut. Up. I just now am catching up on my Reader and had NO IDEA you titled your post this. I would never have posted such a similar one yesterday, had I been aware. I suppose we are both hot. But dang, it’s nowhere near that hot here. Earth should not get to what your thermometer shows. I thought dogs didn’t sweat, silly! He looks like he jumped in the kiddie pool that we bought for our dogs last week, that they have avoided at all costs. I don’t envy you that heat. Will Max jump in water?
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I mean, really, poaching titles is so petty. I’ll overlook it this one time. 😁
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Now I’m going to be paranoid every time I post something, having to scroll through my reader. Who has the TIME?
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Also, Max pretty much hates water. Putting him in the kitchen sink as in that photo meant bribes and brute force.
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That makes me feel better. It seems like only the big dogs get in the pond at the dog park.
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I think that’s true. I never see the toy breeds in water at the parks. Such prissy little animals. The AKC website on Maltese actually says “this breed hates wet and cold.” Prima Donna’s.
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No mincing of words there.
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No more “poor Maxes” from over here. Stop hoarding up all that heat over there and share some of it with us. Currently 9 degrees C or 48 degrees F at 10.00pm. Our kids leave tomorrow to go skiing for the weekend.
Times have changed since I was a kid. I remember my Dad taking off for a ski weekend on his own and here we are funding the kids’ ski holiday and we stay home. Not too sure about this, except that the kids are going with scouts so they are going on a shoe string.
Best wishes,
Rowena
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