It's hot.
Some cows are giving powdered milk. The ones lucky enough to have shade are giving condensed milk. 2% is what they're giving...2% of the normal output.
Fire ants are living up to their name, combusting by the millions.
Eggs come hard boiled.
If you happen to trip and fall on the blacktop, your fate is the same as the dinosaurs in the LaBrea Tar Pits....or Uncle Rhemus' Tar Baby (if your memory of nostalgia is good...)
The water looks like we're sitting on a volcanic vent. Boiling and bubbling. Evaporating in loud hisses and gurgles. Steam rising around us.
Maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but not much. |