It is HOT here in PDX today. 100 degrees F. We used to have to wait until August or September to get up to those temps. Well, things are different now.

Luckily we have lots of shade in our garden, where we retreated after the Portugal/Nederlands game was finally over (as one announcer said, it looked more like a match out of world wrestling for a while) to read the Sunday Times, sip iced tea and feed ice cubes to the dog.