If the heat feels like summer, that's because it is. Though school has been out for weeks, Saturday is the first official day of summer. No wonder our highs are in the 90s. And if the humidity feels more like Houston than Abilene, credit that to the unusually wet year we've had. That's where the mosquitoes came from.
Mosquitoes breed in standing water, of course, and recent storms have left plenty of that.
Last summer's mosquito plague was rather light, thanks to the drought conditions of early '96. Not so this year. The mosquitoes are big and they're hungry and there are lots of them. It's part of the price we pay for ample rainfall. Even so, it is summer, the vacation season, the time of long, lazy evenings stretching out into glowing sunsets.