How do you know summer's coming to Indiana?
We took a vacation in the end of May ... but like many people, we opted to make it a stay at home, to avoid the virus stricken populous. Also, all the stuff we like to do, like camping, boating, and competitive group clogging, was shut down due to COVID-19 precautions.
Hm ... I just realized: Do you suppose the clogging is why my back has been hurting?
Emily and I wanted to do some light reading, so we tracked down the novel that led to last year's TV series, The Passage, which was a favorite of ours and so naturally got canceled. The book is a wonder, gripping and hard to put down. It's also hard to pick up--the thing weighs in at 785 pages! My latest novel, Coming Attractions, is 204 pages. And The Passage is the first of a trilogy.
We're still working on it.
Anyway, on day one I turned off our house's furnace, about three weeks later than usual. Two days later I had to set up some space heaters, and we baked a lasagna just to stay warm. Three days after that I tore the plastic off the windows, put the screens in, and opened them all up. The next day I closed all the windows and started the air conditioners. They ran day and night for three days. On the fourth day I turned them off and made sure the space heaters were still ready.
Yep, in Indiana you can tell summer's coming, or here, or possibly down the road a ways.
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