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Weather people have been talking about relief from the hot weather. Excuse me. I consider the summer heat to be relief from the cold weather, and the heat is just fine with me. I’m not going to paint the south side of a house black when it’s 95 degrees and sunny, but I like the heat. I won’t begin complaining about the weather until late September or early October.
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People are occasionally confused (and so is my spell checker) about the proper use of the words it’s, and its. Here’s something you don’t have to be confused about: its’ isn’t a word.
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August is National Peach Month. I find that peculiar because the peaches I buy in the market near the end of August tend to be mealy and very unappetizing to me.
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It’s also National Goat Cheese Month. I don’t have any opinion on that one.
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I’m reading a biography of George Armstrong Custer, but there’s not a lot of suspense in it. I’m getting near the part where Custer encounters Sitting Bull and all of his colleagues, but I don’t find myself wondering what’s going to happen.
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Here’s another useless fact I’ll never forget: By the time of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Custer was going bald and he no longer wore his hair down to his shoulders. Regardless of what you’ve seen in the movies, Custer’s hair was very short when he was killed.
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If you’d like to sleep soundly throughout the night, a two hour nap at 8:30 PM is probably not your best course of action.
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The sign of our country’s shrinking vocabulary is in the window of a deli in Great Neck, NY. It says, “No loitering or hanging out.”
