it's a tad warm down here in Sth OZ
Today's temperature reached 44.7C, that's about 112.5F. Anyone foolish enough to be outside for more than five minutes probably felt like sizzling bacon pretty quickly. Our news program had a story about sharks and jellyfish on the beaches, and there were plenty of people on the sand, looking rather pink....one woman they spoke too had shoulders and face that looked remarkably like that middle slice of bacon up there..... kind of like this, but already wrinkling and leathery, I could see that clearly and she wasn't at all old. I think back to my childhood and the days I spent at the beach, mostly in the water, and I tanned very easily all spring and early summer, so by the time the heat hit in February, I was browned enough (very brown) to not burn, unless I deliberately sunbaked, and I didn't, and was back in school by February anyway. I'm very grateful now for sunscreen which I have been using daily for twenty years now. I've also been...