Hot SA Summer!

Well, I will see how I like this format for blogging. SO for starters, summer is already TOO HOT!!!

We have been having 100+ degree days already! It is usually in the 90's around this time so I hear, so that does not make me too thrilled about the prospects for our first summer in San Antonio as far as the weather goes. But fortunately the evenings are really nice here. Beautiful actually, at least so far, even with the hot days.

Unlike Houston, SA gets a lot more wind it seems and you get some really balmy, almost beachy feel in the evenings. If I closed my eyes I could almost imagine I am at the beach!

Well, I will be at the beach in a few days, actually. But it is definately a blessing to have the wind to cool off the days here. In fact, Emily and I got into the spirit of the whole summer patio idea and I took the little bistro table and chairs that was on the front porch and moved it to the back porch, since we never use it in the front. And now we can have dinner on the back patio or I can have my coffee in the morning and enjoy the watching the kids play in the back yard. At least there is some shade in the back yard.

I must say we had a pretty big back yard in the old house in Houston, but this one is truly amazing! Our home is on the corner lot, right around the corner from the elementary school but on a cul-de-sac street so there is no thru traffic. This corner lot is absolutely huge! Front and back. The True Green guy today said the front yard alone is probably over 6000 sq ft. No wonder it was so expensive when I used the sprinkler system last August! We were thrilled to have a custom inground sprinkler system and as we have never had one before, I watered the lawn a couple times a week for one month and BAM! What a water bill! I think it was something like $500. Really ridiculous! In fact, I got really mad and had them come out to check for a leak, but they couldn't find one.

So needless to say, I stopped using the sprinkler system. We had to cut up the bill over the last several months and include it in our regular water bill.

But now with summer here, it has been so dry here that everyone's lawns have been pretty brown, so I am starting to water with the sprinkler again, just sparingly though. But we could lose this beautiful lawn if we let the heat take over. It is just so big that we would have to have like 8 hoses or be constantly moving the water hose if I watered it by hand. This week I set it to water only 6-10 minutes twice a week just to keep the lawn from dying. So we'll see......

As I said before, Lance is moving the company into the Medical and Construction side of things, since it is so huge here. When he made that decision last week it has been freaky how things have been happening. The very next morning, what over 11 months in business?, a Dentist actually walks INTO the office, in his full scrubs, and places an order for an office administrator for his new office. He said he'd been dropping off his daughter at the driver's school just a few doors down and had been meaning to come in for some time and just kept putting it off. But lo and behold, Lance made the decision to focus on Medical Staffing and here comes a medical order! Then that night, on our date, our waitress turns out to be a pharmacy tech who just moved here with her husband and has been looking for something for 2 months. And her husband is also looking and he does something like Lab tech or something like that! Weird how God works things out.

Of course we know that once you really make up your mind to do something, many times the unexplainable begins to happen. Those little coincidences don't seem so coincidental anymore.

By the way, my allergists office called and said the scan of my sinuses showed that I STILL have a sinus infection! I just got over about of antibiotics for it and I really don't want to take anymore. But he has prescribed me one I haven't had before so maybe this will knock it out finally. I am going to have to really put together a regimine of supplementation with friendly bacteria since these antibiotics are wiping out literally every bacteria I have in my body, good and bad alike. My immune system is going to be shot if this keeps up. It probably is already.

But that is all going to change this summer! I am determined! Dream It, Believe It, Do It!

I've got to go now, I've spent too much time blogging today and I'm going to enjoy the warm breeze on my back patio with my sweeties. (Lance is out practicing his rock-n-roll again. They are actually going to record this weekend!)

Blog ya later!