John Kerry

And speaking of climate, this morning was the first time in probably 2 weeks (I lost track...) that I was able to turn the AC off and open the windows. Actual air "tastes" so good! And it will be the first time in a long time that the temperatures will not be somewhere around 100, +/- a few degrees. The (uncut) grasses at the back of my house look like it's the end of August, after a long, hot and dry summer. My farmer neighbor calles some 10 days ago or so asking for permission to come and get water from our very large pond (more like a small lake actually, very nice for his cattle, his own small pond had gone dry. I drive through corn fields, most of them look miserable and thirsty. Just a slice of "it's just summer, therefore it's hot" from the heartland (IL, an hour or so east of St. Louis, that I think was one of the hottest spots).