Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 22, 2020

you’re also making the air movie, Beni, with your talking

The Summer heat and humidity of D.C. and its suburbs – where the Otterloops live – is stifling. Only the frequent afternoon thunderstorms stir the air.

Where Fantasy meets and mixes with Reality: metropolitan D.C. She’s melting! She’s melting! (Alice, panel 3.)

Beni & Alice are a couple of old fuddy-duddys.

Time to break out the kiddie pool

@TEMPLO S.U.D. I moved from Iowa to Maryland for the more moderate climate.

I would think air circulation would be a good thing, Beni.

I don’t think small children really notice the temperature. They just run into the house for a quick glass of water and run right back out again.

In December, January, February, we’ll all be praying for warm weather to return. Go figure.

There’s 104 days of summer vacation

If they had just printed the middle panel it could have stood alone! Sigh…

When I was a kid we had to go outside to cool off. I know I know I’m an old fart.

That was why they picked that area as the location of the Capital. They figured having to work in a backwater fever infested swamp would encourage politicians and their assorted sycophants to do only what was strictly necessary to get the job done and go home. Then came air conditioning…..

That’s all well and good, but, these kids aren’t living in any different weather than their parents grew up in, and how many generations before. They don’t know how to deal with it because they’ve never had to. There’s shade trees, bike rides, playing outdoors(yes, in the sun and heat), lawn sprinklers, kiddy pools. You know, old fashioned fun. My parents nearly had to drag me inside for meals and bedtime. Summer was fun!

i was gone to the park everyday to play tetherball, softball, tennis, swing on the swings, go down the slide, there was even a game called box hockey we played with a popsicle stick and a checker. it had a flat bottom with four sides and a hole on either end big enough for the checker to go through. if front of that hole was a diamond shaped piece of wood so you couldn’t hit it directly in. yo would get it through the hole by banking it off the side of the box that angled it around the block of wood. we played it for hours. also, we didn’t have air conditioning back in the 50s / 60s.

I’m with Beni. I’m glad I live in a low-humidity climate. When we lived in the southeast, on 90 degree days with 90 percent humidity, a 10 MPH breeze felt like it created a wind chill of 112 degrees.

Alice, you can leverage the heat and humidity into more ice cream cones.

Sprinkler time!!!