The First Day of Summer??

It may be summer in most of the country but here in the inland Northwest it's Juneuary.

What the heck is going on?!  Just a couple of days ago temperatures were in the 80's, kids were out of school, the beaches were loaded and the top was down permanently (I thought) on my car.  Granted, the last day of spring was pretty breezy and it did hail in the evening but waking to gray skies and a reading of 47 degrees on my thermometer had me wondering how many shopping days are left until Christmas.  

Isn't it bad enough that we barely got done wishing everybody we know a "happy new year" only to grasp the very real fact that a brand spanking "new" 2019 is now half shot?  I want summer back!  If the forecasters can be believed, hammock and beach ball weather should return to these parts no later than this Sunday.    I wonder if it's possible for them to tack a couple of extra warm days onto October as a show of good faith?

Two days ago a very large butterfly landed on my deck and lingered for what seemed to be a considerable amount of time.  At first I thought it was injured or was resting up after some big winged insect adventure.  Eventually he/she, it flew away to no doubt become lunch or dinner for a fat trout or seagull.  Later I began to wonder if the creature had been trying to impart a message from some long dead friend or relative newly reincarnated as a flying bug here in the Idaho panhandle.

Of course that was silly.  By now it should be etched on my frontal lobe that in the wilds of the north woods only the bears, moose and beavers talk.  Unicorns can also converse, but they're big B.S.ers.  

Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to find my thermal swim trunks.

"For God sake put the top up on your car and order some more firewood NOW you moron!"