[Valerie and George]

It's been as hot here as everywhere else, but we don't have a/c, so George has been, as his daddy says, "a hot, grumpy ole George." I tried wetting him down with a cool towel and he didn't care for that. Too much like a bath. So I tried putting a fan out on the deck because he likes lying in front of his fan in the house. But he didn't figure it out until today. The fan is running even though it looks like it's not:

 

[Valerie and George]

George won't even lie on the rugs this time of year, scrunches them up out of his way so he can lie on bare floor. I doubt he'd go for a cooling bed, either.

 

[Valerie and George]

I give him ice water. He used to like to play with ice cubes and chase them all over the kitchen, but he's bored with that now. He does like ice water, though. You should see his tail zip back and forth when he sees me fixing it up.