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Christmas (weather) in July

I know this: our hot pepper plants aren't enjoying the cool summer we're having in Metro Detroit. But fie on them. The mercury hasn't scraped much past the mid-80s so far, and we're in mid-July. I couldn't be happier. I don't do well with the heat. The pepper plants do, however, and ours have been struggling to bear fruit, but like I said, fie on them. I can buy hot peppers at the market, although there is a charm to growing your own. But if that's the trade off---store-bought hot peppers in exchange for summer days in which I can breathe without an oxygen mask, then I'll take it and run. Normally by now, we would have suffered through oppressive heat, with temps in the high-80s and low-90s, with enough humidity to curl you from hair to toe. But this year? So far, so good. Cool evenings, enabling you to sleep with the windows open, and is there anything better than breathing in fresh night air as you slumber? Pleasant daytime temps, w