It’s 95 degrees outside with crazy high humidity. We don’t have AC. The ginormous industrial size ceiling fan in my bedroom manages to circulate not a single molecule of air unless I’m standing on a chair beneath it.
June is… sticky. She actually perspires in her arm pits, a function that for some reason I thought didn’t kick in until puberty. The dog crashes from exhaustion after being outside in the heat all day while Jake builds farm fence. Don’t ask me how Jake manages.
Solha has been so wiped out from the humidity that Jake and I have been amusing ourselves in the evenings by imagining what she’d write in letters back home to pals in Kandahar.
“I’m tellin’ ya, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity! At least in Kandahar, it was a dwy heat. The Taliban is nothing compared to Vuhginia. I’d wather be pelted with stones.”
(This is what people without cable do for fun).
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Water would be something new to Solha, introduce her to sprinkling. Our Australian Cattle Dogs love to sprinkle. They have a big spike sprinkler out in the yard that every so often they uproot and move around the yard. They even chase us carrying it so we all get soaked. Our Lab loves a kiddie pool. She just lays in it. June would love to play in the water with Solha. Heaven forbid, the whole family! Now you know what some of the others of us do for fun.
Yesterday afternoon I went to Books A Million in Fredericksburg, VA. I spent a nice long time in their air conditioning going through all the new books. Your book was neatly racked in the biographies. I took it up front where you come in and placed it full face on the table, easier to see. I bought it weeks back in Charlottesville sitting full face so it would catch your eye. That’s how I discovered your book and blog. Good book, we do what we can!
YES! Get that poor dog a kiddie pool and keep it full of water to sit in when she’s too hot. She isn’t acclimated to high humidity, and it is rough enough for those of us creatures who were born and raised in it.
And, since dongs dont sweat like we do, one more reason to get out the sprinkler or a kiddie pool or both. Out lab & blue heeler both love lolling around in their $9.00 pool. Sometimes the even “swim” in it, it looks like they are digging to China. June would play too and even your toesies .
I get a kick out of Solha’s speech impediment.
I got a kick out of Angela saying dongs hahaha
Ha ha! Me too!
whoopsie. Obviously I meant dogs. Geeze, Im gonna go stand in the corner and suck my thumb. Now, go the wee ones a pool. Pronto!
Dong is so much funnier though!