Well, we are back here in the Chicago area after being up at the lake last week. It appears that last week was not too bad compared to this week's weather.
We just heard this little (depressing) weather note from our favorite Chicago weatherman, Tom Skilling - out of the past 134 summers, this is the 44th coolest. And the prediction is 2-1 that it will continue as such for the rest of the summer. The bummer is that our weather tends to head east