HOT

It seems the smaller the town, the bigger the dreams.  My town, Denison, Texas, is located sixty some-odd miles north of Dallas on the Red River.  The only really notable persons to be born there was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who visited it once, but never claimed it as his hometown since he grew up somewhere in Kansas, and John Hillerman who played “Higgins” on the eighties hit TV show,  Magnum P.I.  

Denison existed primarily as a train yard and a place for Air Force personnel to live until the

Katy Rail Road

and the Air Force moved.  Denison's main attribute is Lake Texoma, a bazillion-acre muddy lake made from damming up the muddy Red river.  The lake is held in place by Denison Dam and boasts about its humongous striped bass.

Denison has one of those “neat” weather patterns where it can be sixty five degrees on one day and twenty the next.  It also gets hot in the summer.  Hot doesn't really do the feeling justice.  Imagine a steam room where sweat rolls down your face into your clothing, and the air is so thick with water you want to breathe it with a spoon.  Hot.  Imagine bursting into a sweat just walking out to get the mail through your dead brown grass, peering up with squinty eyes to look for just one teeny little rain cloud.