Okay, here's the deal. I am slowly melting---reduced to a puddle of a human remnant by the cloying heat in Austin, Texas. You've heard the Stone's sing "Gimme' Shelter?" Well, "Gimme Shelter from the Swelter," I say. We were doing nicely for a month or two. Rain every day...cool evenings, wonderous mornings, pitter patter...and I don't mean little feet...then it all went to hell, as is usual here in the center of the Lone Star state. 99 and rising, with humidity that would make Miami seem like a dust bowl.  It is so hot, the dogs are melting on the sidewalks...the ferrets are shredding themselves to pieces trying to shed their fur coats...only the cats survive. They just lie there on the couch, much like pillows that eat. Nothing seems to bother them...maybe that's why they live nine lives...

Sorta, Kinda, Bear/Hugs

from Gar/Bear