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Okay so the title may lack originality, but there is no better way to sum up the weather of late.

I mean "hello Mother Nature could you take it down a notch?" Either nature has reached naturopause which is much like the human season of menopause, but with farther reaching implications, or the earth has truly spun off its axis and into hell. Fire burning hell.
While I try to roll with the weather and take what comes this 90+ weather in the merry month of May has me anything but merry. Truth be told, I am not much for the ice dance of winter, but I am at least able to defend my comfort zone. As you may recall in an earlier post I indicated my pleasure in layering. Layering of clothes that is. Well in the chill of winter I have been known to layer my way to four levels of clothing. As long as the clothes are properly layered - starting with the thinnest and working my way to the big bulky sweater on top - the 4-level layer is really quite doable.
On the other hand, in the heat of a spring fever such as we have right now, I am forced to dress down to one layer and well, though it was never a pretty sight, with 50 less than a month a way, dressing down to the birthday suit is just not an option. I pity the man that sees me birthday suit!
So here I sit sweltering in heat not fit for a constitution as delicate as mine. What, pray tell, might we be in store for Wisconsin this summer? I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said; "Global Warming is Just a Hoax". Really? I wonder what level of intellect agrees with such a notion. Better to have read "Global Warming, if You Can't Take The Heat So What" in this country in which the circle of life goes round and round a barrel of oil.
Speaking of oil, is anyone else completely undone by the likely permanent damage to our gulf shores that the BP oil leak is causing? I say everyone stop buying gas from BP. Just imagine if all Americans everywhere refused to fill up their tanks at British Petroleum. Think they might get the message then? I know I am committed to the ban. Convenient as their many gas stations are, I am waiting until I can get over to MotoMart or any other not-off-shore drilling gas provider before I fill er up. For being such a strong nation we sure have become the nation of reactive responses. For it is only in the pro-active strength that we draw our might and in the reactive strength that we lose the fight.
On that note, I end this post dedicated in part to the faithful readership of my much loved sister-in-law Linda. When my baby brother Andy first introduced us to Linda it was the summer of 1999 during a (family) gathering at my home. I remember thinking; "wow!" "Don't mess this one up baby bro" cause she was not only candy to the eye, but sweetness to the soul as well. A worthy mix not often found in combination.
So to you Linda I say "thank you" not only for what you are to my brother, but also for being the much loved sister that you are to me.