Hot pink

Hot as in a heat index well over 100. Pink as in the bromeliads going crazy by the shuffle- board court.

Bromeliads don't wilt -- these "petals" may look precious, but they're cactusy -- and these temperatures give everything else the fantods.

So instead of the alternate-day watering we usually do in midsummer, I've had to drench daily.

Steamy work.