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Here comes the sun.

Gray weather feels a lot like taking a field trip to hell.

Whenever the sky gets like this, I sit by a windowsill,

unable to gather enough energy for basic tasks like folding clothes,

cutting the grass, bathing the cat, or eating barbecue ribs.

I start to miss the sun the same way I might miss trees, grass, or ice cream if they vanished behind the clouds.

Or dirt, especially the red kind.

Or muddy creeks and rivers.

Or large-mouthed bass and catfish.

Or sausages from Connecticut County.

Or biscuits made by hand.

Pork butts, pork shoulders. And if I didn't mention it, barbecue ribs.

As it happens, I hold a long-standing county fair record for eating the most consecutive ribs

without suffering thrombosis.

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