We've broke 80 the last two days here in Chicago. The average high would be 47, and the old records were in the 70's.
The bad news is that most buildings here aren't ready to turn on AC. The high school auditorium I was in this evening was sweltering.
wicked hot here as well. Over 80 for three straight days. I'm lovin' it. I suppose that the average is in the 40s. Who knows? All I know is that I cannot remember any year, in the five years that we have lived here, that we could do so much outside during spring break. There's one little pile of snow remaining in one parking lot, about a mile from my house. A month ago it was 20 feet tall. Now it's just a little bump of black ice trickling away, making a daily stream from itself to the nearest drain.
We actually planted tomatoes, jalapeņos, Thai chiles, and cucumbers today, even though the package says that we should plant in "Late May/Early June" in our area. We have a little 8x8 foot plot where we have planted stuff every summer. These may get frosted. There's a good chance that they well, in fact, but we started our garden anyway. Just for fun. I even let the boy get his little watertoys out today, and get all wet. Can you imagine that? A week of winter left, technically, and we're out planting fruit and playing with they water hose.
