Summer in the South in Life

For those who have a romantic notion of summer in the south I want to paint a more clear picture for you.
It’s freaking hot!!!!!
Imagine - you take a shower. You feel and smell fresh and comfy. Your hair is freshly washed and dried. You walk outside to your car. In the 10 seconds it takes you to walk across the slight shade under the tree where you parked the car everything starts to drip. EVERYTHING. The movies portray summer time down here as everyone sitting around on the porch with ice filled glasses of tea and a ceiling fan barely moving. Ha!!! That’s so not the case. We’ve had heat advisory warnings every day for the past 2 weeks. Our afternoon temps range around 98 or so. Humidity never seems lower than 85%. That puts the heat indexes at 110 or higher. That also means that the air feels like a hot - wet blanket and is thick enough to take a bite out of. Instead of the lazy fan on the porch, you sit inside under the central air set lower than you want to pay for, but higher than you want to feel. You Have a box fan or two going full force and think of any reason not to go outside between noon and 6. Oh and the glass ever stays ice filled. It’s melted in no time.
That said, nothing feels better than coming in hot and sweaty and feeling that cool air from the fan. Sitting in the shade is always a wonderful feeling. And mowing at 8 pm is perfectly fun and acceptable. Lightning bugs add to the fun.
All in all, summer in the south is a pretty awesome time as long as you don’t mind showing a couple of times a day and your clothes always feeling a little damp.