Murica Day 2023

[Twirling Time]

Down South, July 4 is about the time that Satan clicks the furnace on in earnest. June is typically warm to hot, but rainy. Our normal first 100º day is July 1. We beat that by a week this year, but otherwise June was June. Our weather has been typically seasonal for us.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Living in the northeast, I've grown to detest July 4th simply because it's halftime for summer. You have a few more weeks of good weather, swimming pools, maybe a trip to the beach until the nights start getting a little shorter and then it's Labor Day. The older I get, the shorter the summer seems to get.

I don't feel that way about July 4th being halftime--with school getting out so late in June, it still feels like the second inning of summer--but summer sure has seemed shorter since my daughter started going to school. There was a two-decade span in there where I didn't pay attention to the calendar and now every summer seems to fly by at a faster and faster rate.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Here, May and June was shockingly mild. HVAC wasn't terribly busy, and I'm not sitting in a hot space just for kicks.

Now? Getting back to blast furnace. Oh ... joy ...