Warm in Iowa

93º and very bright sunshine here in Clarinda, IA at 5:00 pm Sunday.

These baby birds think it is hot.  They are in a nest just outside our bedroom window.

Spent more time trimming dead branches

from the huge Pin Oak tree at the

southwest corner of our house.

Looking down from the ladder.

When I was washing some of the sawdust off

my arms the other day it reminded me

of my Mom standing at the sink at

our farm house near Oconto, Nebraska

in the heat of summer and no

air conditioning.  This was in the 1950's and she

would run cold water over her wrists,

saying that would help cool her all over.

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