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If the hot, sticky and muggy days have not tipped you off yet, allow me to tell you: It’s been hot, sticky and muggy some days.
Guess why?
The dog days of summer are upon us.
I can remember when I was younger and living at home, I would come in from the outside piaying, sweat would be running down my face. I would say, “Mom, it is too hot to play.” She would tell me that we were in dog days, and relief would not come for several more weeks.
For me I did not know any different. Thinking that the saying came from the way dogs could lounge in the summer sun. They could relax as if there isn’t a care in the world.
Then I soon found out the difference. My mother told me what it meant.
Today, dog days occur during the period between July 3 and August 11.
Maybe there are some of you who would like to know where the term come from? Why do we call the hot, sultry days of summer “dog days” ?
Settle back and
read about the
ancient times
In ancient times, when the night sky was unobscured by artificial fights and smog, different groups of peoples in different parts of the world drew images in the sky “ by connecting the dots” of stars. The images drawn were dependent upon the culture: The Chinese saw different images than the Native Americans, who saw different pictures than the Europeans.
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