Damn, it’s nasty out there. It’s hot, humid and it feels as if you’re breathing in water instead of air. The air is thick even when the breeze kicks up which doesn’t happen often enough to drive away the mosquitos. The evening breeze is trying to kick up, so maybe it will rain tonight. All it’s really done so far is it has made my chimes in my garden dance and jingle a bit as fireflies start to light up not too far off the ground.
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve lived in weather like this and in a home that didn’t have air conditioning. I forgot what it felt like to put a quilt on the wood floor and try to sleep at night since it was too hot to lay in bed. We’d lay on the floor after we stripped off our PJ tops and then take off our PJ bottoms when we knew Momma had gone to bed just trying to get cool in some way or another. Nothing helped and even the 20″ fan betrayed us by blowing the hot air that was trapped in the house at us.
Air conditioning. Only people with money had that. We, on the other hand, had the fans that Momma bought at Woolworths.
