Fall is one of my favorite times of year. Why?  It’s the season that most of us Texans are looking forward to in hopes of a cool relief from our triple digit summers.  Sweet Jesus it gets hot in Texas! One would think that having lived here as long as I have, that I would have adjusted to the sauna-infused weather by now.  Let me just tell y’all…umm no.   There is NO adjusting to the Texas heat.  It’s either hot or hotter.  We consider it a cold front when the temperature drops from 103 to 95…what on earth?!

I am about five seconds away from stripping down to my cheetah print birthday suit (haha) to run thru the sprinklers butt-naked.  And then I remembered that we already have a naked neighbor in our part of the woods, but that’s another story.

I do not understand how Cowboy wears a long-sleeved shirt and his wranglers in the dead of summer.  Don’t get me wrong, this pretend cowgirl loves his choice of jeans, but long sleeves? I would be a puddle of sweat mixed with a spritz of Chanel.

Speaking of sweat…I had a friend tell me once that if your partner sweats and you can not smell them, then they are your true soulmate.

Okay…let’s think about this…

If I can’t smell Cowboy when he sweats then that means he’s my soulmate?

Okay, I’ll play-

Cowboy comes in from a day of working outside…

ME:  Come here for a minute, I need to smell you.

COWBOY:  You need to what?

ME:  Smell you.  I need to see if you are my soulmate. I was told that if I take a whiff of you when you’re sweaty and I don’t want to plug my nose then apparently you really are my soulmate.

COWBOY:  (Chuckling) Where did you come up with that from?

ME:  My friend.

I walk to where he is and I start sniffin. Sniff, Sniff.

COWBOY:  Well, did I pass the test?

ME:  Wow!  I seriously can’t smell your sweat. Now smell me.

COWBOY: (He walks over and sniffs) Have you been working outside too today?

ME:  Umm, yes, why?

COWBOY:  Because you smell like sweat mixed with your perfume that smells like Vicks.

ME:  Ugh!

’til next Sunday y’all- xo, Tammy