During our five weeks of personal contentment in which worries concerning my health had been left at home, we’d also left behind the desert’s ‘egg-frying-on-sidewalk heat’.
Upon returning to our home, eknowing that we’ll have to endure these last weeks of sweltering summer, indoors, Andi and Michael convinced us to enjoy dinner with them on a restaurant patio that they’d described as having been well cooled. As no one abhors extreme heat more than is true of Andi, we replied—sure.
Once we four had been seated for a while—t’was hard to tell which had been roasted more thoroughly—the medley of skewered veggies ordered by four best friends or the four besties, themselves, each of whom had clearly felt toasted after having been basted in sweat …
Try to deny the reality of our sizzling summers as we may, the only way to enjoy time spent with friends, outside, is to invite our guests to partake in a waterlogged dinner served in our spa until such time as the heat breaks (or until so many people are vaccinated that our fear of catching COVID 19 is vanquished as happened with small pox, polio, chicken pox, measles and mumps), and so, while awaiting that blessed Fall day (which classically dawns toward the end of September), when we can comfortably place our fear of roasting, while dining on restaurant patios, aside (because we’ll surely feel need to abstain from dining inside our favorite restaurants until COVID numbers have greatly declined.)
Once again—being inoculated against catching COVID is not a Democratic political platform—COVID is a contagious illness that we’ll fail to irradiate as long as Republican leadership refuses to advise their constituents to be immunized (though they, themselves, have been vaccinated as is true of trump.)
Unfortunately, the dumbing down of today’s American youth is a reflection of the dumbing down as seen in too many of our nation’s lying leadership—and that my friends, is truly a crying shame …
Annie
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