7 More Days before I leave for Wisconsin and "The Lake"

It's too hot here in Arizona for me to succumb to panic. I'll just have to take my To Do list and edit it. There is no possible way to accomplish all the things on the To Do list between now and the time we leave for Wisconsin and still retain even a modicum of sanity. You ask me, "How hot is it?" My mother sent me the following "funny". Keep in mind that the weather in Arizona is just as hot or hotter than that in Nevada.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN NEVADA (OR ARIZONA) in JULY WHEN...

~ The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground.

~ The trees are whistling for the dogs.

~ The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.

~ Hot water now comes out of both taps.

~ You can make sun tea instantly.

~ You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.

~ The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly.

~ You discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.

~ You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.

~ You actually burn your hand opening the car door.

~ You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.

~ Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"

~ You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.

~ The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.

~ Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs.

~ The cows are giving evaporated milk.

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When I received an email from my mother telling me that they had a "hard frost" at "The Lake" last week and that the temperature had hit 28° F over night, I decided to choose the following Cliche of the Day.

Add Insult to Injury. To be notably harsh or unkind to someone (perhaps unwittingly); to (in effect) hit someone when he is down. A version of this notion appeared in Latin almost 2,000 years ago in the fables of Phaedrus. He cited a fable by Aesop in which a bald man swats at a fly that has bitten him, misses the fly and hits himself on the head. The fly remarks, "You wished to kill me for a touch. What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury?" In English the idea was picked up as early as 1748, when Edward Moore used it in his play, The Foundling: "This is adding Insult to Injuries."