Dog Days of Summer

Truly dog days of summer and Bailey certainly agrees.
The paper today said our area had over 10 days consecutive of over 90 degrees, a first for this area for the month of June. The lawns are parched, the cornfields are so stunted in their growth.
If it weren't for my twice daily watering of flowerbeds, I doubt there would be any flowers or tomatoes.
Today was a break in the weather... just got to 80 degrees. Wonderful.
We'd saved a renovation job for when the weather broke.
So our front porch, covered, had layers of paint and was chipping on the floor.
Instead of painting we decided to 'slate' it, to match our side entry and back entry porches that we installed slate on last summer.
A dusty, dirty job, laying tile is..... but the cooler temperatures helped that.
We set the slate tile on about 2/3rds of the porch.. it's 30+ feet long.
Tomorrow we'll finish laying the tile, and then grout it in several days.
Hopefully the weather will cooperate and temps will stay out of the 90's for a few more days.
Bailey in the above picture turned 10 this year!