When I was a little girl and we had a stretch of hot, humid weather at the end of August, we were forbidden to play outdoors.

The monarchs seem particularly fond of the bright-colored zinnias. I’m not sure I noticed in the past.

When I first began writing this column over 10 years ago, I had some sort of rant about one thing or another.

I could not have been happier with the lovely rain last Saturday afternoon.

A couple of us were complaining about the hot, humid weather in Vineyard Grocers. Mark, the manager told us that Oman on the Arabian peninsula just set the all-time highest low temperature – 109!

Once again the weather people promised rain on Sunday and were totally off. I wish I had their job and could be wrong most of the time and still keep it.