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hammock, that is, from mid-day to late afternoon.

But every year August has a surprise in store for us. The Dog Days broke last night.

I felt it first on the breeze that came up sharply as I stood on the front porch taking in the last of the evening light.

Soon after dark the baying of Jerry’s coon hounds rose from the river on the same steady northwest breeze, modulating with their nearness to the quarry, but always celebrating their release from the heat.

We slept with the windows open for the first time since spring, no longer numbed by the white noise of the air conditioner but lulled by the rustle of leaves.

The weather man will talk about the first swoop of the northern jet stream down over the Great Lakes, how it’s pushing the Gulf air offshore as it advances into the Mid-Atlantic

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