California Gardening: Is it winter yet?, 1 by balvenie

balvenie wrote:
Sixty three degrees at eleven o'clock in the morning and fifteen gallons of weeds into the recyclers pickup container so far. My empathy for your heat knows no bounds. As a youngster growing up in Riverside/San Bernardino these hot days were killers. Our 'heat wave' of last week got up into the eighties. Nice temperature to sit with a cool Gin and Tonic and await the inevitable rain.

Mary, going to the movies (for 25 cents, 15 for matinée) or the swimming pool at the YMCA was the primary keep-cool solution for we kids back then. Hope that picture perfect weather California is famous for returns soon.

Here is a little snapshot to help cool you down.