Hot. Wet. Humid. Laying in your basement by a fan hot, mudhole at the dog park hot, spending all day bikeing with your dog and spending your week's alowance on food and toys hot, swimming in the North Brook" that my town is named for. Wet dog chasing you in the yard hot. Riding outside in the heat that puts you into a trance, so you're under the spell of the summer hot. And most of all, summers here are at the mercy of the forses of nature, thunderstorms, microbursts, power outages, and anything and everything in between.