It's too HOT to be outside, so stay in with a good book.
Here's a little excerpt from one of my favorite authors; Robert A. Heinlein (1907- 1988)
from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, interludes from Time Enough for Love


"Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity.


Another ingredient for a happy marriage: budget the luxuries first!


And still another -- see to it that she has her own desk -- then keep your hands off it!


Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.


Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.


Always tell her she's beautiful, especially if she's not.

Rub her feet.


The more you love, the more you can love --and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.


Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.


Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster. 


   Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.


Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he his born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human being ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money -- but long on hugs.


      Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.


To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.


You live and learn. Or you don't live long.


   If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.


Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide the lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty", "meaningless", or "dishonest," and scorn ot use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.


      (and last ~for now~ but certainly not least!)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."