Getting Darker Sooner

I spend alot of time at home, cleaning, cooking, projects, outside. But lately almost a solid 4 months I haven't been able to go outside, not because I don't want to. BUT, because it's been over 100 degrees every single day. More steadly 105 -109 everyday! After awhile it started to become unbearable, I was getting sick, the heat was getting to me, and drinking water just wasn't helping. I know lots of places live like that all the time, but even though it's Texas the heat this year is different. And in less your living in it don't say anything! :) Our lakes are drying up from lack of rain this whole time too, our gardens are not producing, which means we don't have veggies, and the store ones are getting expensive because farmers aren't growing them either, corn is dying so farmers can't feed their animals, they have been selling them off prize cattle they would have kept just because they can't even feed them hay. The prices on these items are high. It's sad all of it's very very sad. And scary, Scott told me if I see deals on beef buy alot of it because beef prices are about to go up, (they are already higher). Not to mention your milk eggs, cheese.....anything really will be going up.

We've even been alot hotter then Arizona and New Mexico....they too have been hot the whole country has gotten it's share of temp's way up.....but we haven't gotten any rain and the temp's haven't gotten as high and stayed as high anywhere else.

On top of all this the lack of rain and heat our house is shifting.....again. My four legged babies walk outside and immediately lay down, and start panting. They don't wanna play out there.

Last week my mother asked me if I noticed it was getting darker sooner. Of course my response was no!
I'd forgotten about it, til this morning I woke up and looked threw the opening in the curtain and saw it was still dark, I thought oh good I have a few minutes longer to sleep or lay here.........2 minutes later my alarm went off!!! What!??! So I check the time on it, and sure enough it's 6:15 and it's dark outside!!! I was able to have my windows part down half way to work feeling the cooler breeze before the sun was officially up and I had to turn the a/c on. So tonight I will step outside and see if the heat has changed it's tone, it's still hot but I think the type of hot air is changing ever so slightly and it just might be bearable :)  Because trying to water our yard and what's left of the plants even at 10 pm at night it's still been 100 degrees outside. We usually are hot til October, AND don't get me wrong, I've had cars with out A/C and drove along ways to work, I've worked in jobs where we worked outside in the heat sweating my buns off. I know we live in Texas and it's hot, I know other countries are hot and don't have a/c or live outside in this. BUT! I repeat, it's hotter, it's a different hot this year for us in Texas, it's longer, and we have been breaking record after record everyday of the heat, last I heard 44 days of 100 plus degrees. The record for that was 1980 at 69 days. (I wasn't even born then). Point in that only one other year was it bad, we Texans are use to heat, and occasional small drought, but this is by far harder then all the other years.

I'm blessed to be able to walk inside and feel cooler air in the morning, and thankful it's in my car. But it doesn't change the fact that animals are dying, food isn't being produced, lakes are deteriorating leaving fish behind dead. And people are dying because of the heat. Prayer circles are pooping up in cities, praying for rain, So we've come to a point where doing a Indian Dance for Rain is what we all are doing.

It's beginning of August and it's getting darker sooner, I'm hoping that means there will be a change soon and we can have a few days of a breather some where in the middle of all this heat!