Actually it's not that hot here, not like it was in LA a few days ago. 113 in downtown Los Angeles, how is that possible? And how ghastly it must have been. For one thing, downtown LA is more humid than Ridgecrest. Think of 113 with a dollop of humidity. Also, I don't think everyone in LA has air conditioning, and certainly not swamp coolers.
No one should be feeling sorry for us in Ridgecrest, because it's only been in the low 100s the last few days. Thing is, I'm SICK of the low 100s! I want 90s! And 80s! And 70s!
On Sunday we took a trip to the Kern River Preserve, in the Kern River Valley, which is -- oh, I'm not going to try to explain where it is, because if you're not from here, you won't understand. It's near Lake Isabella, some people might know where that is. Anyway, the Kern River Preserve was featured on a Huell Howser episode that we saw part of once, and we'd always planned to go, so on Sunday we went.
Unfortunately it was hot. Oh, and also, the day before, Saturday, had been their annual turkey vulture festival! I'm so sorry we missed that. But we were pretty busy on Saturday.
Anyway, so it was hot. And humid! Because the Kern River Preserve is right on the Kern River. So it was very green, and overgrown, and buggy, and humid. Just an odd experience altogether for us desert folk.
Here is a photo of my little darlings "enjoying" the Kern River Preserve.
What can I say, they were hot. We'll go back someday when it's not so hot.
And that is enough for tonight, except that I am really looking forward to Saturday, when the high is supposed to be 91.
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