Feeling the Heat

Since we have reached 90+ degrees for 23 of the past 26 days, I saw it necessary to write about this excruciating heat!

Hot Enough for ya?

You could fry an egg on the top of my car,

If you were walking barefooted, you wouldn’t go far,

I just stepped out of the shower and already I perspire,

Forget going to the park, the slide is on fire,

It is 100 degrees outside in the shade!

I want to get into the fountain and wade,

I feel like I’m melting, that I’m made out of wax,

It’s July in North Carolina:  those are the facts,

It hasn’t rained in weeks, the grass is quite brown,

The humidity is high, with the sun blazing down,

The A/C is running steadily, all day and all night,

Record-setting heat, the forecaster was right,

“Hot enough  for ya?”- can’t wait until fall?

Then it won’t be hot, and we can watch football,

Then winter arrives and the heat is sounding better,

We humans are really persnickety about our weather,

As spring approaches, we all look forward to the thaw,

And there is no objection to the weather at all,

But spring is too brief, and then here we are,

You could fry an egg on the top of my car!

Tammy Harvey

Written:  July 25, 2017