There's this realty company near where we live that has a big sign that displays the time and temperature. This sign has some pecularities to it. It consistently estimates the temperature about 20 degrees hotter than it really is.


For example, when I was walking up to the grocery store, the sign told me it was 107 degrees.


About half an hour later when I was walking home, it was 110 degrees.


This was around 3:30pm.


According to the weather channel, it only reached about a high of 87-89 today. I think that if it was honestly 110 degrees I would have been a puddle on the sidewalk.


But I walked to the grocery store in order to pick up a few ingredients for a dessert experiment tonight. I caught a rerun of Baking with Julia on PBS this afternoon and while I'm not going to attempt the masterpiece that Gail Gand demonstrated, I did get inspired for a simplified version of her dessert. Details tomorrow if successful...