View from the North 40: Help me! I'm melting, melting … meltiiing

I would like to take this time to go on record as formally declaring that hot weather sucks.

I know, that’s pretty strong language for not a very profound revelation. In my defense, though, if I were allowed, my column today would consist of the headline, my photo retouched digitally to look as if I were actually melting and these words in the largest, boldest print possible: “Hot Weather Sux.”

Yes, I would abbreviate “sucks” because then I would have more room to make the font bigger. I would fill the whole page, if I could, with these giant words of sweaty hostility.

However, I am told, repe...