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My annual summer rant…

As summer drags on, the humidity hangs along with it. As mentioned previously, I HATE humidity. Warm-blooded people don’t handle it well. Even in the dead of February, baby me was a little furnace, according to my mom, whose arm was always dripping after holding her baby furnace. I’ve continued to be a mini-furnace ever since. Sometimes I [...]

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The cicada in the backyard tree began to shriek today – and on cue, started anew right as I began this post. Even though we haven’t had much summer here in Chicago (highs in the 60s and 70s), the cicada is signalling that summer is winding away.
As always, I marvel that the cicada made it through [...]

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As of 15 minutes ago, 6:59 CDT, summer officially showed up. Yay. That means the first snowflake is three and half months or so away. I guess I better enjoy the humidity while I can…

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