Too Hot!

I've been up to very little due to the heat here. While the sight of - or even the hope of - one snowflake energizes me, once the heat goes over 110 degrees Fahrenheit, I am totally sapped. No energy. I've got zero desire to so much as lift my head from the pillows. I'd much prefer to sleep through the summer's heat. So considering that I live in The Hot Place where it is over 100 much of the year and over 110 for far too long, that isn't practical or even practicable. Not to mention it not being fair to the man who pays for the air conditioning I'd be wallowing in.

So I'm trying to choose to do the right things in the right room and not expend enough energy to make myself any warmer. There's a nice trick when a sudden hot flash can have me par-boiling in my own skin in a heartbeat and for goodness only knows how long! Ted Williams, move over! I want to join you in your cryogenic chamber!

One of the things I've been doing is to spend afternoons in the coolest room in the house (Nana's room, formerly known as the art studio), punching pages for spiral binding. I'm hosting an artist's chunky book with the theme, 50 States. It has become 50 States, the possessions, and the federal district. This is a project of the TreasureArtTrends group with 12 participants, each doing 5 states (or other dominion). Just over 60% of the pages are in and while they are all nice, some are just incredible!

Note to self: when it becomes difficult to punch the page, check to make sure that the little hopper is not completely full of punched out holes!

And I'm wondering what particular bit of pack-rat-dom makes me save the punch-outs.