Hot Enough For You??

Not much has gone on around here...its been sooo hot! We are trying to get more mulch delivered so we can continue the back yard, and we finished the side door installation except for the paint; we are thinking over a new color scheme so we will probably wait on painting that. We have also been busy watching our new sod die out....not sure whats going on there, but we think it may be chinch bugs; we did spray for them, but the rains may have washed the application away before it got to work. I am not laying one more piece of sod until we figure out what is killing everything, the other side (the driveway side) is completely grassless-weeds only, at least they are green.
Also occupying our minds has been our latest electric bill...and this will make all of you bungalow owners happy with your bills.....$702! We think (we are actually praying) that something is wrong, the bill or usage have never been that high, and it is substantially higher than last years bill. We have not added any energy munching appliance or a pool....and I actually bought some drapes just for this reason, to save some energy. The highest bill we have seen was just over $500 last September. We are trying to get an AC guy over to give us the once over...we have checked what we can check, the water heater, the thermostats......I really hope something is out of kilter.....who has $700 electric bills??