Heat week

I turned on the Weather Channel this morning to check out how hot it was going to be today.  It's something I do nowadays.  Probably because I'm getting old.  There was a weather bulletin that came up that stated the following.

Excessive Heat Warning in effect from 1 PM this afternoon to 7 PM CDT Wednesday.

That covers four days!  FOUR DAYS!  The projected temperatures for this week are the following (this is Sunday through Saturday):  105, 107, 109, 101, 100, 99, 96.  Yeah, finally, on Friday the heat starts to break. 

When we first started thinking about moving, it was because Andrea needed to find a job.  No big deal, people do it all the time.  People that I work with ask me why we want to move and that is always the first reason I give them.  We would like to have two incomes.  It helps keep our heads afloat.  The second reason I tell people is because we will end up being close to our families.  Instead of being a twenty hour car ride, it's only nine and a half hours.  And in the past month or so, I have been telling people that another reason is because it is way too hot here.  There have been over thirty days of one hundred degrees or more temperatures. 





And people ask me why I hate Kansas.  It's too damn hot. 

Green state of mind

So, there is recycling and then there is recycling we have found out while on vacation. Seattle is a very earth friendly city. Which is cool, but it is taken to an extreme when it comes to garbage and recycling. I don't know if other cities have started doing this as well, but they have a separate container for food scrapes. Food scrapes and food soiled things such as napkins and paper plates. Instead of sending off your food that you didn't finish off to the landfill, they are sent to the city compost. After which, I don't really know. All I know is that for the first few days out here we all had to stare at the garbage in our hands and think whether or not it was to be sent off to the compost or if it could go in the trash.

The funny thing about all of this is driving down the street and instead of just seeing a garbage bin and a recycling bin there is also this little container for the food scrapes. Being this far north and west and not quite out in the wilderness, but pretty damn close, it makes me wonder if they have ever had issues with animals coming to investigate the wonderful smell of free food. I'm sure that there are small animals such as raccoons and cats and dogs that tip these small containers over, but that isn't anything to get concerned about. I would be concerned if larger animals started to make their way out of the woods and into the cities. Seattle wouldn't be the first place I would think that this would happen, but the smaller cities that are out on the edge of the urban sprawl, closer to nature.