"Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but inside it's so delightful!"
Does that lyric sound familiar? It is from the 1945 winter holiday classic, "Let It Snow", by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne. While the tune is normally associated with snow, the line above fits our current meteorological conditions. All of the adjectives normally used to describe summer weather now apply: Hot, humid, still, close, sticky. It's hot, baby, hot.
The ozone level is stratospheric, the dew point level is way off, and the heat index is out of the ball park. If you do not have air conditioning, I can feel your pain, or rather, your perspiration. People are keeping a low profile, doing as little outside as possible.......except for salmon fishing, which is apparently hot during hot weather. We were the lucky recipients of left-over salmon caught early today. The fishermen caught so many salmon they were going to discard the rest of the CLEANED AND FILLETED salmon steaks. ( A true crime, for sure!)
Tonight we'll be dining on freshly caught salmon, some lemon drizzled over it, combined with a little EVO, salt, and ground pepper. Ooh, tasty, tasty, tasty. Of course, you have to like fish and it is one of the few foods that I have craved recently. I'm in fish heaven.
Stay cool today, readers. Iced tea, mint juleps, and water over ice!
Ancora imparo
