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September ended here in my little patch of Mexico with record-breaking heat. The heat I can handle. The humidity is brutal. Early this morning, 70 F, humidity in the 90s, go hang laundry on the line, come inside with sweaty wet hair. In the afternoon, when it is 90, when I return to the house with dry laundry, I’m hot but dry. When we Montanans say, “Yes, but it is dry heat,” we know what we are talking about.

October will be different. Won’t it?

And the critters, oh, my, the critters. Critters in the house. Last night I found a scorpion on the bathroom floor. Alive. Alive when...