june 11

If you're not in Missouri you don't know what you're missing. A little bit of variety almost every day with only one constant, two if you include the daily variety factor. The other is the heat and humidity. Almost any day you can get rained on and become wet. Everyday you can become wet just by spending a little time outside, even on a cloudy day. Today the forecast is for the upper nineties with a near 100% humidity. Yep, this part of Missouri has become a Sauna Bitch and if you're not here you're missing it!

I'm not sure about where you are but a lot of places don't have some of the reasons we have here in Missouri, to become more familiar with our own bodies. Here, we are compelled to personally visit portions of our body that we don't normally see or pay much attention to for great expansions of time. It all starts with a tiny sensation in one of those hardly ever visited spots. A sensation that usually builds as you subconsciously scratch the spot until it becomes a conscious and an overwhelming desire. That is when you begin a visit to the area. After finding the tick, most folks take the time to examine the many other, out of the way areas of their own body, just in case there could be more. The searches include the use mirrors as well as the possible recruitment of your beloved. In those extreme cases it is just as well your beloved be examined too. There have been times when one little lousy tick has created a lot of fun and enjoyment. The need for scratching over the next couple of days wasn't too bad either because it seemed to always spark a pleasurable memory of the exciting occasion.

If you want I can send you a few ticks.

It seems the only three things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate, attend funerals and visit our pleasant memories.