TheBanyanTree: Summer?

[Laura]

It's summer?  Really?  I hadn't noticed.  I know the kids 
aren't doing school, and we did go to the beach, but 
otherwise I'd never have known the weather changed.

Since the beginning of June my left arm has been wrapped 
in something all the time.  Splint, splint with bandaging 
and dressing, cast, splint, cast, and now another splint.  
All with the admonition "Don't get it wet!"  That sort of 
limits the activities I'm able to do, since I sweat like a 
horse if the temperature gets above 68.

So I've been hiding in the house all summer.  No 
gardening, no biking, no hiking, none of the stuff that 
summer usually heralds for me.  I've heard of the terrible 
heat waves that are devastating parts of the world, but I 
have yet to experience any heat.

When we were at the beach, my motto was, "If it gets wet, 
I'll cut it off!", so I did get out on the beach and walk, 
I even wrapped the cast up in plastic and got in the 
water, but I never noticed the heat.  It was really quite 
mild for North Carolina in the summer.  Where ever the 
heat waves were, they weren't there.

At home, I've done no better than to get in the 
airconditioned car in the airconditioned garage, then dash 
into the next airconditioned building.

Summer?  Can't prove it by me!  Maybe next year I'll have 
a summer.

-- 
Wolfie
wolfljshus at insightbb.com