• Get up early and get as much stuff done outside as I can before it’s sweltering
• Frequent breaks
• Freeze wet wash cloths or bandannas, grab one from the freezer, and put it around my neck to cool down
• Ice blended cocktails (minus the alcohol if that’s not your jam)
• Keep a bowl of ice cubes out for the doggos
• Move my home office down to the basement in the summer
• Blinds and curtains closed after late morning (sorry houseplants!)

Once heat is in your house, it’s hard to get out. So, prevent it from coming in by keeping you doors, windows, curtains, and best of all shutters closed