Summer numbers

Things I left the supermarket with this morning that I would not have expected to buy:

• One pink piggy spatula
• Two miniature American flags

Things I left the supermarket with this morning that I would have rather left behind, or not brought with me in the first place:

• Two children 

People who have been bitten by their sister twice in the past two days:

• Dash

People who have been driven to the last resort by their brother who just will not listen to any other sort of dissuasion:

• Mabel

People who have to decide whom to be more annoyed with first:

• Maud

Number of bites of baby carrot Dash has had since yesterday:

• 2 (actual honest-to-god bites that were swallowed; this is huge)

Temperature, in degrees farenheit, that it is outside my house just now:

• 95

Expected high:

• 100

Heat index; that is, what it will feel like when you factor in the humidity:

• 107

Amount I hope we will go to the pool this afternoon:

• A lot.