Back in Ithaca

Back in Ithaca now. I left Israel on Sunday night, flew to Philadelphia, then to Boston, where I spent a few days with family, and drove back to Ithaca on Wednesday - in a car with no air conditioning!  Somehow I didn't expect that it would be hotter on the east coast of the US than in Israel, but it has been. Fortunately, here in Ithaca there are a number of ponds, lakes, and waterfalls to jump into when it really gets too hot to bear, and I've been taking advantage of them.