Whoa! That Irving Berlin, huh? He wrote well over 1,000 songs, and whenever you think of a show tune that is etched in your being, it's almost always his song. Apparently, the wealthy father of the woman he wanted to marry objected to the wedding and disowned the woman when she went ahead and married him anyway. Irving Berlin gave her the rights to the song "Always" to make up for it. They were married for 60 something years and had a very happy life together and had four children and stayed in love until her death (and probably beyond that).
How are you dealing with the heat? I have curtained off our kitchen which takes most of the noonday sun and we have the fans going, but I am loath to use an air conditioner because of climate change. It is scary what we are doing to alter the world's climate and we don't seem to be able to stop. We are lucky here in BC that it cools off at night. My sister lives in Toronto and says it just stays unrelentingly hot the whole time.
Poor Daisy suffers in the heat. We have our long walk in the early morning and then she spends the rest of the day panting. We usually go to the creek in the late afternoon -- it is cooler and leafy and shady and she sits down in the water and lets it slosh over her.
We are having our roof replaced. I pity the fellows up there pulling off shingles in the blazing heat. Yesterday the hi-ab (I think that's what you call it -- a truck with a big crane on it) came and put the shingles and plywood on the roof. It was quite amazing to see it done, and now the stuff seems to be stacked rather precariously on the peak of our roof. I will be glad when it's all done.
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