July 28: Where is summer?

The Chicago Tribune's front page headline (well one of them) today was "2009: The year with no summer". It has been a record cold July. This month has seen 2 days with above "normal high" (by only 2 degrees though) and 23 days with below "normal high", some days 18-23 degrees below the normal high. No above 90 degree days yet, though the two days were close - 88 and 89.

This makes it difficult for the family that has shelled out pool passes at $60/p (though we only bought 2- one for me and one for Zach) to go the 9 times to pay it off. Sigh. It has been quite nice at home though, with all the mild weather. We have not yet had to turn on the one window AC unit we have in the office area. I turned it on to see if it worked, and it does cool off the front room nicely, but we have not needed it. Luckily we have fans in every room (except the kitchen which gets HOT).

It is a bit odd that we happened to be here during the worst (coldest and most snow) winter in over 15 years, AND be here during the mildest summer in recorded history.

No pictures to go w/ this post, so here is a picture of one of Zachary's newest favorite activities: creating planes out of bristle blocks.

July 17, 2009 : Various airplane creations