Sunny and … hot?

Summer has finally arrived.

I know that because for the second time this summer, we turned on the geothermal heat pump’s air conditioning feature. As the outside temperature reached 28+, the house became a cool 20 Celsius.

The forecast calls for sunshine and hot weather until Tuesday, August 18. It’s about time, say most everyone you’d talk to, especially farmers who are mourning the loss of their cornfields.

In some poorly drained fields, corn has been drowned. In others, the usual summertime heat units have stunted the size of ears of corn, or otherwise arrested its development.