“Dog Days of Summer,” I guess you would call what we are experiencing right now.
The 100-plus-degree days are taking a toll on everything from greenery to people’s bodies. It’s hot enough to scald a lizard, and did you know the ice cream truck melted?
We have a deep well that we had dug over near our barn and the water is piped from there to our house, a few yards, and it comes out of the kitchen faucet warm enough for bath water. Even down many feet into the ground, it’s hot enough to warm the spring water.
The television weather people keep telling us that we are under a heat advisory. Well, I can readily tell them that all I have to do is open my back door and lay my bacon on the back porch and it fries. It really is more than hot.
School is beginning early this year, which means that the school rooms will be somewhat uncomfortable, even with air conditioning, with at least 20 to 30 students in each class. I remember my school years and there was no air conditioning. Of course, I didn’t have the comfortable cool air at home, so I guess I made it without melting.
When my little girl began school, I bought a big fan to put in her room, decided it was still too hot and began a campaign to “Cool the Schools” and worked for two years to provide air conditioning for all our city schools. Just tell me my children are uncomfortable and I have a mission!
This year we have two grands in customary school, one being homeschooled and four in college; no need to worry about their uncomfortable temps. This is the smallest amount we have had in school in a long time.
All our older grands will be much older before our last one, Emmie Jo, even begins her away from home school days. As her mother is a qualified education major through Mississippi State, I’m sure Emmie Jo will be homeschooled.
I can remember when I was in school here in town that we begin our fall semester after Labor Day, first Monday in September. Later, the year began around the middle of August. Now, it’s the second day of August. We had three months for summer break and now our children get only two. However, we did not get a fall break as they do now. I hear lots of talk about a year-round school year. I just know our children in school would love that!
We will have one in Hinds in Jackson, one at Ole Miss, and two at Mississippi State, two in junior high and one a junior this year. I hope they all are prepared for early mornings, long days and busy nights of homework as they begin another year of education. But if they only knew, which they absolutely can’t understand and appreciate right now, this is the very best time of their lives and they are making so many memories that will carry them for many, many years the way mine have, all the way from 1963.
This is a very simple and quick delicious dessert: “Two Ingredient Lemon Bars”
» 1 box of angel food cake mix (the one-step kind to just
add water,)
» 20 ounces of lemon pie filling.
Preheat oven to 350. Spray 9x13 dish with Pam spray. Mix cake mix and lemon filling and spread in dish. Bake for 30 minutes. These will be more cake like than other lemon bars. After cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar and slice.
