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Summer 2022: Days 92-101

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The summer of 2022 ended with scorching heat. Seriously, I can't pick out individual events during the incredible temperatures of the last 10 days. The high in Salt Lake City was 107 today, breaking the September SLC record of 105 ... yesterday, which broke the record of 104 on Thursday. I read a sobering article on how this will likely be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives. I never look forward to summer ending, but I'm ready for some relief. Temperatures are supposed to drop into the normal 80s over the weekend, with rain forecast. Although this was a brutal way to end the summer, I swam often this past week. I worked from the house of our friends with a pool two days, and I also spent all day Sunday at the JCC pool while I worked. But my big swimming moment, perhaps my final frontier, came yesterday at the season kickoff party of Ben's club swim team. We don't have a home pool, but one of the families belongs to a small swim club up in the Avenues ne