Tinderbox

With 40 degree temperatures every day for the last two weeks or more, everything that doesn't have mega-deep roots has dried out and become perfect kindling.  One still-lit match discarded carelessly, one bottle thrown lazily away and acting like a magnifying glass for the sun's rays, one barbecue left unattended at some parched picnic site and the whole country will spontaneously ignite.  We usually try to drink 5 or 6 glasses of water a day, but these days even that is not enough.  Mind you, fitting in the water drinking (and the wine drinking) with the hourly rain dances just about fills the whole day!

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