Not much

Summer in the desert makes for some long boring days. Just like the cold winter days and hot humid days in MN. Our big excitement is when we pick up our WM grocery order, go to the pool or go for a ride. Not much else you should do in the midst of a pandemic. Not if you want to stay healthy anyway. We made it through a HOT weekend. Saturday we went to the pool but Sunday got hot too quickly. When it gets hot that fast we stay inside, the pool doesn't even feel good when it's 115º. Especially when there is no breeze.

The dry air and high heat attacked the batteries for the solar. The water had evaporated and needed to be filled. It took a whole ice cream bucket of water to fill them. The batteries were acting "confused" once they got the water, but came back well. One of the voltage/current monitors went out, but after little tweaking it did come back on as well. The monitor has been giving grief for awhile now too. Guess it comes with age and extreme heat. It takes some pretty tough stuff to live through the summer heat in the desert. I don't know how the birds and other wildlife do it.