It's hot

It's been really hot here. I knew we were going to get an actual summer in Krakow but I didn't realize how hot it would be. The first week we moved here it rained almost the whole week. It was so damp inside the house it took 3 days for some of my clothes to dry on the drying rack. Then it became warm and sunny and has been ever since which has been such a nice change from Dublin summers  - there have been a lot of thunderstorms though. The week the kids were in camp I think it was at least 95 every day, and got to 97 once or twice. The nice thing about it was that it's not at all as humid as NY or Boston so it's almost bearable. We don't have air conditioning in the house but luckily the downstairs stays relatively cool. Upstairs gets stuffy and it really wouldn't be a problem if we could just leave our windows open at night because it gets nice and cool after dark. The problem is that they don't have screens in the windows here which drives me nuts!! I said this when we lived in Dublin - why haven't they heard of this neat invention before?? There are too many mosquitoes, flies and moths to leave them open so I was worried about what we were going to do until I ventured out to a huge Home Depot-type store and found some do-it yourself screens. I was so excited, especially since the instructions are in pictures instead of words. Thank goodness for small miracles. Now I just have to find the time to actually put them up, because I hate doing stuff like this!

I was surprised the other day when I went into my cabinet to use my coconut oil and it was totally liquid! For those of you who haven't used it before, it's usually solid at room temperature. I really didn't think it was that hot inside the house but maybe it is?