Truly the dog days are upon us. For a while there it was actually fairly pleasant temperatures (high 70s) but that was because the heat was being blocked by smoke from the uncontrolled Canadian wildfires. It was like being back in LA again with the haze on the horizon. However, that's now gone away and we have the worst kind of headache weather - squinty and cloudy, hot and oh-so-humid. It looked like the bugs were dying off at least, but then we had a sudden massive downpour yesterday and today I was savagely bitten by one of those nasty triangular little black flies that proliferate in Michigan summers. Roll on Autumn, say I. Still Frederick and I continue to swim, although not in such a diverse range of places as in days of yore as neither of us has the patience for plowing through pondweed in the way we used to (plus Big Seven lake has been closed because of "bacteria" since mid July, and apparently Bluebell Beach has PFAS or some such), so it's mostly Sand Lake (next to the campsite in Seven Lakes park) or Holly Rec, with occasional visits to Metamora Hadley. No pictures, though, because I haven't been inspired recently.
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