My Dad says every time he turns on the weather channel, he sees a big cloud over the Carolinas. Well, guess what? Every time I look out my window I see a big cloud over the Carolinas!
That doesn't make it any cooler here, though. The humidity is so high that the 80s feel a lot hotter than that. On the upside, I've only turned on the sprinkler system 3 or 4 times all summer.
In Target they like to set out displays that are appropriate to the weather and time of year. In summer Minnesota Targets will put out a display of paperbacks and call them "beach reads". I always thought that was funny because, well, there is no real beach in land-locked Minnesota. Sure, there are all those lakes, and they have little beaches. But face it, the skeeters will drive you off a lake beach before you can turn the page.
Here, Target's summer display of paperbacks has a sign that says "Reading for the Summertime Blues". This is so appropriate, and yet odd-seeming to a transplant like me. To me, summer is the time to be out...riding your bike, running, rollerblading around Lake Nokomis, walking your dog. Impossible to read outside because if you sit still you get bit to death. Can't read while you are walking because you have to walk fast enough to outrun the bugs.
But here in the Carolinas, July and August are cabin-fever months. It's too hot and humid to be outside. Stay in...watch movies...read paperbacks. And if you've got 10 foot ceilings and a very open floor plan...bake cookies. You'd never bake cookies in July in your bungalow in South Minneapolis. The rooms are all tiny and enclosed and you could suffocate from the heat.
Yesterday Nate and I baked cookies from a recipe I saw on Gale Gand's show on FoodTV...Sweet Dreams. They don't have flour...they have ground oatmeal instead. Here is the recipe for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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