Did not drive my truck the last few HOT HOT days - grandkids in the pool, staying inside, etc.

Opened it today and WOOOOF! Jugs of commercial grade sanitizer had expanded and leaked.

Last time we had a heat spell like this the temp inside my car was 134 degrees.

My advice: remove anything that expands in the heat, like jugs of chemicals, paint thinner, propane tanks (even the little ones for torches can explode), spray bottles like glass cleaner, and air fresheners.

My truck smells super FRESH with the bottles all puffed out and leaking.

BRAD

It's SUMMER!

Next thing you know, sure as the sun comes up, they will be squawking climate change and global warming.Actually, they probably already are.

Did you ever wonder how humans survived all these ages before air conditioning? Somehow we did.

It's SUMMER.

In a few month's they will be complaining about the cold and saying climate change again.

Whimps!

Brad, I rented out a small 2/1 with detached 1.5 garage. Problem was that the garage was full of my goodies. No more room in the storage barn so I had to start moving stuff into MY garage.

Wife isn't happy as now we have to park outside.

Really makes a difference when your vehicle is always outside in the sun. I try and remember to crack the windows a bit. Not so much that rain can get in, but something is better than nothing.

Strange how we refer to summer when its January as compared to now.

Today it is heat dome blankets multiple states.

But in January summer is like a deceased Pets we might have just lost.

Here is a picture of us with summer. I sure do miss summer. I remember when we would go in the pool with summer.

Back when I did the work, a gallon jug of muriatic acid decided to puff up and leak in my truck. The fumes corroded anything metal in a 3 foot radius.

It's not the air temp, it's the greenhouse effect of heat multiplied inside by the glass.

BRAD

I am grateful that we never get that stifling heat and humidity here the Ozarks.

Bought a hackberry tree, Celtis occidentalis to plant at a rental in the shade of a poorly crabapple tree. I'd planted the cheapy, cheapy crabapple the first year I owned the house, just to get some shade started. The hackberry can take over shading the patio and west side of the house in a few years, and its far enough from the house that leaves in gutters won't be too bad.

Put the lattice panels up on the west side of our own house for the summer. Used to grow morning glory vines on a homemade trellis to shade that west wall of our child's bedroom.

Had hubby plant sunflowers along the east side of our house, where we used to have a spruce tree. Couldn't convince hubby to go for a hackberry there, but it might just be something I need to do and see when he notices.

Ha, I have an extended cab four door truck that is only a one seater 80% of the time. Two seater 19%.