Even the cats are over it

It’s finally here – the irritated and sticky Summer of the deep south, people are slowing down, and time is following suit… No one is where they say they’ll be when you expect them anymore! Everyone is moving in slo-mo to avoid working up more body heat than necessary from the extra exertion, traffic is slower, checking out at the store is more expensive of your time, and even conversations have slowed to a crawl… It’s pretty funny to me how the human species copes with severe heat. I believe it’s just an critter condition that my pal and I haven’t outgrown with all our overpriced industry and technological advances, then at the end of the afternoon, you still need to go outside. There are certain critters that I expect to be affected by the heat, but cats actually are not one of them… Dogs, of course, get lazy and reliant on loads of cool fresh water when the temperature climbs… You’ll see wild critters like parakeets and squirrels chilling out lazily or diving into puddles of water for relief on sunshiney afternoons, and but it’s pretty sparse that you’ll see a cat avoiding the afternoonlight or panting from the heat, you know? For me, that’s the real indicator of a dangerously tepid afternoon, then when Garfield is over the sunshine, so am I. I’m loading up with layers of sunscreen, layers of flowing clothing, floppy hats, and sunglasses. And after all that, I’m not going outside unless I absolutely have to. As far as I’m concerned, there isn’t enough sunscreen in the world to offset the pounding afternoonlight and irritated humidity on those cat afternoons of summer.
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