Triple Digits

I was amused and amazed last night as I watched the weather forecast on the news. They were using their super-cool graphics to display the forecast... Nice pictures of a full, blazing sun with high and low temperatures. Well, maybe it's partly because we don't have a wide-screen TV and maybe they're programming now specifically for widescreen TVs, but it was funny since every day for the next 1o days has a high of over 100 degrees, the numbers were all smashed up together on the TV. I never saw so many numbers on the TV screen before. They had to reduce the font size and squeeze them closer together to get them all on the screen! LOL!

Okay, I'm just re-reading this post and it doesn't sound nearly as funny now. Maybe the heat is getting to me... Be cool.

Trini Food!

I am a happy little duck this afternoon. I've been by a Jamaican dive a few times but always miss their operating hours somehow. (i.e. They're not open Mondays, or after 3PM.) On my third attempt, I got in and had a great time talking with the owners. They told me about a Trinidadian restaurant up the road a bit, so after ordering a meal at the Jamaican place (called Taste of the Caribbean) I went up to Carican for some real Trini food: curry, roti, black beans and rice, sorrel drink, etc.

I couldn't contain my excitement as I walked in to find three real Trini's running the place. It was so fun to talk with them and (as usual) they had a hard time believing that I'm a Trini, too, until I started telling them names of places no normal Oklahoman or American could pronounce properly. Actually, I probably can't pronounce anything properly to a Trini, either, but they believed me after a while.

What a great place! If you're an adventurous eater and you haven't tried Caribbean/Trinidadian food before, let me know and I'll go with you. =) It's de-lish. I'm finishing my 2nd lunch now and I just couldn't resist. Had to sit down and type about it. Both meals were great, but the Trini food was definitely better. Nicer store, too.

Here's the info:
Carican Flavors
2701 N. Martin Luther King Ave., OKC
(405) 424-0456.

They've been in business for 1 full year and are planning a 1st anniversary celebration the week of Aug. 7th. You bet I'll be there.

Nice cool 90 degrees

The heat broke today. It was a nice cool 90-something degrees. =) Had a wedding today to photograph. It was really beautiful and held at Cole's Gardens (indoors). It was the 2nd wedding I've shot with my new Canon 5D and I'm even more impressed with it than I was at last weekend's wedding.

"But it's a dry heat...!"

Check this out... Last night, the low was like 80 degrees down here in beautiful Edmond, Oklahoma. Tonight, same thing. The kicker is how high it gets mid-afternoon, though. Yesterday hit 105 and today and tomorrow are expected to top 106 degrees. The heat index, considering humidity and whatever else they take into account, puts it up near 115! That's pretty darn hot to be outside marketing in a suit and tie. Of course, I'm just wearing a dress shirt, no tie, today. Life's too short to die of heat stroke.

Here's the forecast straight off of MyYahoo page today. And it's still mid-morning!

It really is better than places like Tampa Bay, Birmingham and Atlanta where it's so humid you can't get into your car without breaking out in a miserable, uncontrollable sweat. =)

Anyway, just wanted to share our fun weather with you today. The news last night said that the hottest day recorded on this date was 120 degrees back in like '38. Man, what did they do without air conditioning back then? I have no idea...

PSA's :: Water Conservation

Okay, help me out here... If I don't watch TV and don't listen to the radio, how am I supposed to know when a water conservation effort is in effect? I was embarrassed to come in after watering our yard and flowers and find online an advisory about water conservation in effect for OKC. How was I to know? Argh. I just don't want all of my neighbors to think I didn't care.