Summer in the south is H-O-T HOT! The forecast may "say" 90s but I have seen the mercury on my outdoor thermometers top out at 120 degrees in the sun on the western-facing porch in the afternoon. And it's not a dry heat, as they say out west. Naaaaaw, this is a humid, sweaty, subtropical heat that will melt plastic and anything else you leave outside. Maybe even your face! It's the kind of sultry heat creeks, ponds, and swimming pools were invented for!
This is south Georgia. Spring was over with in March! I've had flip flop tan lines on my feet for a quarter of year already! The pool's been open for a month! There have already been sunburn incidents around here! We are eating fresh wild blackberries right off the vines! Summer starts in April and ends on October 1 here.
We get outdoors and work or play during the cooler morning hours (it's absolutely gorgeous out there at 6:30 in the morning!) and have inside siesta time from 12 to 3. Just a time to literally chill out and take a break from the heat. It may be a good time to start dinner or do some indoor chores or maybe take a little snooze in the good ol' AC. Farmhand Chris usually gets back to his farm work about 5 o'clock and works until dark. See the sunrise and watch it set and work so hard in between that you sleep like a rock...that's a good way to live a life.
Looks like a new poolboy to me!
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