On the Kitchen Porch

On the Kitchen Porch

Summertime!

Hot times and Maine wild blueberries

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Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Aug 02, 2022
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  • “Hot enough for ya?”

  • “Gonna be a scorcher again today!”

  • “It ain’t the heat, man, it’s the humdiddy!”

  • “I swear, it’s gotta be at least 90 in the shade!”

Now in the northern hemisphere, we are absolutely in the Dog Days, which are not called that because, as I once thought, the dogs are all languishing on the kitchen porch, their tongues lolling out, with jus…

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