Miami of the North

Sometimes recently I've heard Buffalo referred to as the Miami of the North. This past week Buffalo has certainly lived up to that name. Today the temperature went up to 96 in our backyard and 92 yesterday. So, yes, it has been really hot. For the past two weeks the temps have been in the mid to high 80's. No rain either. We did have a rather chilly April and rainy early May. The plants have been loving it and the tulips lasted a very long time this year. Once the rains stopped we have been spending a lot of time working in the garden. Then it got brutally hot.

Well, tomorrow the weather should go back to normal. It will be sunny and cool and we expect rather seasonally cool weather for the next couple of weeks. There will be some off and on rain too. Back to normal maybe.

Becky has been out in the garden multiple times a day watering the flowers. She has made several trips to the garden centers and has come home with many flats of flowers. After planting they have all needed constant watering because of the lack of rain.

Today we had the AC on for the first time. Cooled the house down great. Earlier in the week we had the windows open and the fans going. I think this was the earliest we've ever ran the air conditioner. We went out to dinner on Thursday night of this week but avoided the outdoor patio seating because it was so hot. We looked for a nice air conditioned dinning room.

We have been talking about Buffalo as the Miami of the North but it certainly has not been the tropical style of Miami. Just the heat.