it is hot outside

So today's the day of that meeting between an easily manipulated, not very intelligent narcissist and a highly manipulative, completely unscrupulous former KGB officer. Apparently, first it's just the two of them one to one, probably most likely sorting out a deal involving minerals and rare earth and such like, all for the filling of coffers no doubt.

The heat has returned in full force. With good timing and attention we manage to keep the house cool, it's what I learned as a child in Franconia where summers are hot hot hot but I still have to explain methods to the man who grew up in Ireland at a time when summers would last a day or two. Last night we briefly debated moving the beds down into the basement but I was just too tired for it and slept in the living room on the guest sofa bed and when it had cooled down to 25 C outside at around 2 am, I opened up every window and the patio door and let the lovely night breeze blow through the rooms.

This is the coolest summer of our coming life, so we are told.  

 

The pears are ripe already, a month early.