Spring in Four Days

Spring in Four Days

Spring is coming. I like Spring. Spring is great, but I live in dread of what is to come; Summer. Personally, if I had my way, the weather would always be, partly sunny with a high of 52 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 30. We'd get all the rain we need, but only between midnight and five in the morning.

Many people love summer because of the hot weather. They go to the beach and lay in the sun, ignoring the dangers of skin cancer. They have picnics in the open air and try to ignore the insects. They go to baseball games and root for the home team composed of almost no one from their home town while they get drunk and overeat junk food. They jog. They power walk. They ride bicycles. And let's not forget that wonderful invention called the motorcycle. The latest revival craze being the chopper with absolutely no muffler. They are so loud, I think they should be illegal! (They actually are but it seems like the police ignore them.)

I do not like hot weather. For me it's just sweat and bugs. Trying to sleep on those hot summer nights; forget about it. And if you have a fan or an air conditioner, you get some relief, but you have to listen to that droning fan noise for days on end. I will never understand how anyone can like summer. The other day I mentioned this to a coworker and he said he liked summer because all the girls wear less clothes. I don't mind that, I suppose, but it's still not worth it to me; sweat and bugs!

I count every day of Summer looking forward to Fall; true fall; cool breezes, blowing leaves, and cold nights. I can keep my bedroom cold and retreat under big fluffy feather quilts. And those first few freezing nights kill all the bugs or at least send them into hibernation.

I consider any day that the temperature rises above 65 degrees to be a summer day. I figure that between the time that Spring starts and true Fall begins, I must endure about 150 Summer days and nights. So far the count is zero. I wish I had the power to keep it that way.

Addendum: After reading this article again, I realized I forgot another reason I hate Summer; no Pinwheels. Pinwheels are a cookie from Nabisco that are only available during cool and cold weather months. During warm months Nabisco makes a look-alike cookie called Twirls. The Pinwheel is made from a round chocolate cookie topped by marshmallow and then covered in chocolate. The thing looks like a little bundt cake the size of a cookie. I love them! But the Twirl - BOOOO! - is the same on the inside but this waxy, boring, no flavor "fudge" instead of the chocolate coating on the outside. They do that because the chocolate on the Pinwheels melt in temperatures over 80 degrees. I hate Summer.

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