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How hot will it get? No, that’s not the title of the newest jam by Thugg Mugg featuring Flexx Nutz and Neecie Flambé. It’s a reference to the near-record temperatures, 20 degrees or more above the seasonal average high (the low to mid 60s), that await us this weekend.

But first, allow me to celebrate: Friday is the eight-month anniversary of The Bunk’s birth, and he’s still a delight. He is fully healed from his surgery and seems to be coping well with his no-nad-hood. 

Some personality (caninality? clumsy as that sounds, I think it’s actually a word) quirks continue to emerge: he is an inveterate finger- and toe-licker, for reasons that even he would be at a loss to explain; he prefers to sleep whilst jammed up against a door, preferably lying on his back with his extremities in the air; one of his favorite pastimes is to splash around with his paws in a shallow receptacle—like a water bowl, for example; he has a weakness for toilet paper sur la rouleau (on the roll); he likes being brushed, but things take a sour turn when someone tries to brush, however delicately, in the area of his nethers—then he emits a reedy lamentation (which is unfailingly hilarious) and tries to bite the brush, and the brusher.  In short, we love him.

So here are some recent pictures of The Bunk for your enjoyment.

The Bunk on The Couch The Bunk Examines Backyard; Gets Scritch from Monsoon The Bunk Slumbers in Splayed Contentment

Now, on to the weather. Let’s look first at the next five days or so...

Friday 4/24: Mostly sunny and warmer with mild southwest breezes. High 77, low 49.

Saturday 4/25: Plenty of sunshine, breezy and still warmer. The temperature should easily eclipse the record of 84, set in 2001. High 87, low 56.

Sunday 4/26: Sunny, clear and very warm. The temperature could challenge the record of 91 set in 1990. High 90, low 58.

Monday 4/27: Partly cloudy and continued very warm. We could again challenge a record: 92, set almost a century ago in 1915. High 89, low 56.

Tuesday 4/28: Partly cloudy and still warm, but not quite as balmy; increasing clouds and humidity. High 82, low 56.

The second half of next week is looking grey and wet (no, that’s not Rue McClanahan’s memoir of struggling to maintain her libido into her 70s, it’s just a description of the weather) with highs in the upper 60s, lows in the upper 40s, and rain possible on Wednesday and Thursday.

Next weekend, as we limp into May, we’re looking at conditions a bit below normal with highs in the 50s on Saturday 5/2 and the mid to upper 60s on Sunday 5/3, with cloud cover and rain possible on Sunday.

The first full week of May (Monday the 4^th through Friday the 8^th) is looking seasonably pleasant and right about average, with highs in the low 70s and lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. The next really good chance of rain comes in around that next weekend, the 9^th and 10^th.

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