Friday, August 01, 2008

Heat Playing Tricks

It has, of course, been really hot outside.  We stopped at the grocery store earlier for meat & beer and I started sweating seconds after I stepped out of the truck.  I also noticed a really familiar odor, but I couldn’t immediately place it.  Suddenly, I had visions of the zoo in Madison and realized what I was smelling.  The black bed liner, which had been roasting in the hot sun all day, smelled just like the Mold-a-rama machine* that I used to get gorillas out of (my cousin often got the lion).  I do hate the heat, a lot, but I was grateful for the moment of nostalgia that it offered.

*Thanks to Mimi Smartypants for the link.  I would never have come up with the name of the machine if she hadn’t posted the link recently.