As summer begins and the weather gets hot (the American Southwest will do that, you know), my two-legged pets have been all complaints, frantically scrambling from one air-conditioned building to the next -- as if too much time under the sun will melt them to the ground.

I do not mind the warm weather.  No, I rather enjoy it.  Perhaps it's the wonderful sense of lethargy that overcomes me.  Perhaps it's the fact that much of my perpetual nagging knee pain temporarily subsides.

Whatever the cause, I feel contented.  Just laying here, taking an occasional sip of water, and watching the beautiful blue sky above.

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