Hot

 Today the temperature hit 31℃!

That is crazy for May, the usual temperature for this time of year is mid 20℃s. 

Fortunately, the humidity is low, which means that using a fan helps to cool things down a bit! 

According to the ten-day forecast, the weather will cool down a bit next week because it's going to rain. I hope so, I'm not ready for the heat.

I might start my summer schedule earlier than usual. Five days a week, I get up at 5am to make breakfast and obento. I then rest for an hour or so afterwards, then get up again to do chores and make lunch. My summer schedule has me doing as much as possible before 8am, and the latest 9am. After that, I can stay in my room with the fan, and when it gets really crazy, I can run the air conditioner!

I still have a lot of deep cleaning to do. I was hoping that I would have most of it finished by now, but there are still a few jobs that need to be tackled. Being sick with allergies last weekend threw me off schedule. Christopher doesn't have work tomorrow, so he can help a bit! One job I want to do is to put the heavy winter futons out to air out and then put them away for the summer. Just looking at them makes me feel hot! Another job is folding and putting away the clean laundry that is on my floor, again!

The only good thing about the heat is that the cats don't fight so much. I think the heat tires them out. They have started to lose their winter coat, even sweeping and vacuuming every day isn't helping. We are trying to brush them every day. Unfortunately, it's hard to brush all the cats on one day. I think the best time to brush them is when they are sleeping, but it's hard to find them, or they sleep where it's impossible to reach them.

Today, Fred got a good brushing!

It was going well, even if he was complaining, until Toast jumped up!

I'm going to make some iced tea!  I need a nice cool drink!