Our morning mid-week temps here in Central PA are still in the mid-60s (F). Daily highs tomorrow will start climbing back up into the 90s (F). That's find. We are in summer, as season where nights are hot and days are hotter. Friday's high temp should be in the mid-90s (F),but then the cool off begins as we head back down into the 80s (F). The risk of afternoon and evening thunderstorms seems to be waning a bit. These are the dog days of summer.
Yesterday was a day of massive accomplishments!
I talked to my friend Justin about the holly bush out front; he had just gotten off working the night shift and was in no condition to do any trimming. So I pulled on my big boy britches and went out and trimmed the bush myself. An hour later the bush was trimmed back to a normal sized and cleanup was complete. That was in the morning.
In the afternoon I went for a 10.87 mile ride in Corsica, a ride with some decent hills. During that 50+ minute ride I maintained an average heartrate of 128 beats per minute. I was very pleased.
As some of you know I will, on occasion, listen to music when I write. When I do so it's usually just one specific artist that manages to hit one specific note in the theme of the book. This process is serendipitous. While writing The Body Under Ice I listened to quite a bit of Spanish guitar music. For The Body in the Tower it was Fallout Boy. For The Body in 4/4 Time, what I'm calling a musical mystery, it seems as though I've settled on Bastille. Here's a song called Intros & Narrators that might help you understand what I'm talking about.
