Humid walk along the San Pedro River

I have two weeks of vacation left.  I'm now energized to get all my summer chores done.

My first chore was ordering a new driveshaft for the Honda Ridgeline.  I did that online. I found one on RockAuto.com, but that came with a $200 shipping charge and a delivery for Thursday.  I checked at a few local auto parts and found the best price at O'Reilly Auto Parts.  It was a bit more than RockAuto because shipping was not part of the listed $374, but  at least this is guaranteed to fit and made well.  I should have it that afternoon.

I had the dogs with me on this errand, running the AC both at O'Reilly and then at the school district where I was for another half hour.  The fall schedule hasn't even been started yet so I don't even know what my work schedule will be. If I go back to part-time work, I will be happy as there is still so much work to do on the house and with  the dogs. Again the dogs were cool in the CR-V, but I knew I needed to run them along the river as a reward.

I stopped at the San Pedro House North (north of the highway) and ran them along the river.  We haven't had significant rain all week and the water level has dropped quite a bit.  There is also green algae growing, along this part of the river, and I don't want my dogs drinking water with algae in it.

It was a hot and humid walk for me. At 1:45pm it was 95F with 33% humidity.  Dark clouds loomed north of town, but not over me.  I was miserable, but the dogs seemed to enjoy the cool water.  My new Pixel 6 overheated and I only captured half of the walk.  Even England is experiencing 100F temperatures like we are, a record for the island.  Other parts of Europe like Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are also enduring forest fires from the drought.

I was back home by 3:30pm  Two hours later it began storming over my 'hood and I had to quickly get the dogs to safety:  Sweetie went inside the truck and Gretchen went inside the RV with me.  Twenty minutes later the rain had stopped, leaving behind cooler temperatures and another opportunity to walk around the block one more time.  Lightining continued to blitz across the mountains, but nothing else came from the storms.