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The Two Rivers Cribbage Club meets at 6 p.m. on Thursdays at the Masonic Center, 2400 Consistory Court. All cribbage players are welcome. Info: 261-1670.
Allen and I visited Death Valley National Park in mid-March, when it was a comfortable 80 degrees at Badwater Basin (elevation 282 feet below sea level).
We walked a half-mile into the basin then returned to the car to continue our adventures in the vast park.
I kept Death Valley on my weather app, just so I could look at on days like this. Todayâs high there is expected to be 126. It will âcool downâ overnight to 99 degrees. That makes temperatures here in the Grand Valley â 106ish in the day, 70ish overnight â a bit more tolerable, right?
So, how do you like your eggs cooked on the sidewalk? Fried or scrambled?
Weâd play cars and trucks in the dirt, run through the frog-eyed sprinkler, or â this doesnât seem right â play school, during our summer break. Remember the game that involved searching for an object, where youâd shout âyouâre getting warmer,â as the searcher approached the object or âyouâre getting colder,â when they moved farther away from it?
âYouâre so cold youâre freezingâ meant they were so far away they might as well start over.
I think Mother Natureâs playing that game with us this summer and we must have gotten really, really close. A few weeks ago I heard a little voice in my head shouting âyouâre so hot youâre burning up,â when Iâd crawl into the car after it sat in the sun all day.