Took the dogs out for their morning walk just a bit later this morning, around 4 am (I'm working from home today, and slept just a bit longer). It was noticeably warm outside, and I see from our weather station that our low last night was 77°F (25°C) – unusually warm, indeed. Yesterday we had our first blast-furnace summer day: the high was 105°F (40°C). Today is forecast to be even hotter – but by Sunday the forecast calls for 30°F (17°C) cooler temperatures, once again below average. Funny weather this year, but overall, still a very much cooler-than-usual summer...
One effect of the warm temperature this morning was that the crickets sound different – they “chirp” at a noticeably higher frequency as the temperature rises, and this morning the temperature was different enough for that to be easily observable.
The full moon was high in the southern sky this morning, not far separated from Jupiter. I'm expecting them to be quite close together tomorrow morning. The dogs didn't care about the moon, Jupiter, or the temperature – after relieving themselves we were back in our most common pattern. Race was bouncing around at the end of a leash as he sought a pine cone. The three field spaniels were snuffling up the aromas of the morning, with the kind of self-importance often seen with a useless bureaucrat. A rabbit slowly hopped away from the four dogs that suddenly appeared; none of the dogs noticed. I could almost hear that rabbit breathing a huge sigh of relief, and it's easy to imagine the stories that it is now telling its buddies...
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