So it has been raining a bit in the UK; well, it is brutally hot here and I am not sure which I prefer.  Expected to be 97 degrees today and it is pretty bloody humid as well.  Not a great deal that you can do outside when it is like this.  It cools down to only 89 tomorrow and then a refreshing 74 Friday (thank goodness - I am due to spend the morning volunteering at the local St Michael Preserve, weeding etc.)

We were down at the Jersey Shore for 3 days to Monday in Anne's Aunt's house, with the air conditioning broken.  Managed OK because it was a we bit cooler and there was a bit of a breeze but glad that we are not there now.  We did, however, witness a quite magnificent storm.  We watched it on the horizon for an hour or so, flashes of lightning illuminating the dark horizon every few seconds.  It didn't seem to be moving at all quickly and we went to bed.  Twenty minutes later, the house started to shake and we ran around closing all the windows and then sat as we watched something like a scene from 'The Perfect Storm' (in miniature, of course) as the wind howled and the lightning lit up the waves.  Quite impressive!