Well, we've had hard times too, down here. Couple days I had to pour a glass of water on my windshield to clear the frost, and some of us have had to dig out our jackets and taken to wearing 'em about. What's worse is today, for example, it seemed a little warmer so I left my jacket to home, content with a light sweater, you see, and all at once in midmorning, the weather backed around and the damn skies cleared up so bad you could hardly look at them without wincing from the brightness all around.

It got worse. By two o'clock there was a veritable deluge of sunlight coming down from the sky, warming up every goddamn thing until you couldn't hardly see a shadow anywhere. It got so damn warm I tried to roll up my sleeves, but the sweater was bulky and wouldn't roll proper. By the time I got home we must have had 7 inches of sunlight on the driveway, and I was nearly sweating by the time I got inside. Why I had to go and change out of that sweater in the middle of the day!! If this sort of thing keeps up, I don't know where we'll end up, I swan. It's not convenient, I can tell you that. Not what I'd call convenient weather, no sir.


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