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Just put a window AC unit in my office at home. I'm not a fan of window units in general, and have resisted one for a long long time. The last couple of days have been so horrible I just couldn't deal and broke down. In the 20 minutes its been on, my home office has gone from 92 to 81, and the humidity has dropped from 87 to 75%. I think I'm going to have to price out adding AC to the house as a whole now. #toohot

Part of our land has been converted to a pasture for a friend's horses.

Said friend asked me to check on the horses regularly now that temperatures are soaring.

She wants me to make sure the horses are not in distress. I'm not sure what that would look like, but I suppose it would be obvious.

I said yes thinking I'd be able to peek out quickly and be done with it.

Of course the bloody nags have parked themselves in the farthest corner of the pasture, out of my line of sight.

So every two hours I have to face excruciating heat to go and see if they are still sans distress.

Opening the door is a lot like opening the oven, except there's no cake or pizza. I hold an old white curtain over my head as a makeshift parasol and I go as fast as I can, the sooner to get back inside where temperatures are still reasonable.

This heat is crazy. It's the hottest I've known it to be in the 8 years we've been living here. And it's only day 1 of the heat wave.