Remember oh-so-long ago--like February, for instance—when we were all busy shoveling heavy, deep piles of snow…again? When we thought we were safe, after surviving “Snowpocalyse” in December, yet found ourselves struggling once more just to clear a path wide enough to walk…ANYWHERE outside our front door for some fresh air? When we fought valiantly to find a place to heap more of the white stuff, since the drifts were already over our heads? When we had to come up with another creative name to describe the catastrophic winter conditions? (“Snowmageddon”) When we prayed that the kids would please, please go back to school sometime soon? When we couldn’t imagine a landscape that wasn’t blindingly white, or a time that we would ever be warm all-the-way-through again?
Well, the old adage “Be careful what you wish for” seems mighty timely right now, as we swelter through Summer in Hades—I mean Olney. Temperatures for the next week are predicted to fall in the 95 to 100 (!) degree range, which as far as I am concerned, is just very, very wrong. Did Maryland get picked up and scooted a little closer to the equator while I was sleeping? Did our forecast get mixed up with the one for Texas, or Arizona? Because I need to blame this ridiculous heat on someone, and that someone will be fired, as soon as I find them!
If it seems like I am taking the weather a tad too personally, I admit that this is true. I was firmly of the belief that we already DID our hard time last winter, and therefore earned a pleasantly warm and breezy summer for our troubles. Apparently, Upper Management didn’t get that memo, but I’m hoping they hear our pleas and remedy the situation soon. Until then, join me with an icy cold drink, and let us perspire in peace, fellow Olneyites…
Love American Pie!!! I agree that MD has wildly swung like a pendulum between Antartica and the equator.
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