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You hear a Texan say, “It ain’t the heat; it’s the humidity.”
Jessica Murray, Caldwell | Bluebonnet EC
The lines start getting longer at the raspa (snow cone) stand.
Luis Garza, Alice | Nueces EC
The cicada symphony starts playing at sunset.
Tony Hall
It’s watermelon season.
Donalie Beltran, May | CECA
You have to wring out your face mask.
Frank Palmer, Canton | Trinity Valley EC
It does not go below 70 degrees at night.
Sherry Krupinski
The grass and the dirt are the same color.
Colleen Duncan, Boyd | Tri-County EC
You throw away that bathing suit from last year and get a new one that fits.
Lucy Wiley
You eat watermelon outside in your underwear, and the juice runs down your front until your mom washes you down with a hose.
Joan Buzzard, Lakeway | Pedernales EC
The temperature hits 95.
Nadine Pope, Burleson | United Cooperative Services
You get to eat a nice, cold watermelon.
Nita Hilburn, Bryan | Bryan Texas Utilities
The temperature reaches 100 degrees.
Rock Mitchell
You see your first butterfly.
Tom Keaty, Lubbock | South Plains EC
I eat watermelon.
Judith Gadut Sherwood
The cicadas sing in the hot afternoon.
Dee Hoffman | Pedernales EC
January.
Janet Mosley
That first bite of watermelon.
Cristen Cirrincione, Lubbock | South Plains EC
Days are long and you can’t enjoy being outdoors until after 8 p.m.
Sarah Skloss Tichenor
We have had homegrown fried green tomatoes.
Marvel McLean, Lake Kiowa | PenTex Energy
My tomato plants die.
Suzi Finsley Gibbons
You get your first chigger bite.
Cordie Moore, Florence | Pedernales EC
When is it not summer in Texas?
Lois Crigger
The fresh okra is sizzling in the skillet, black-eyed peas in the pot and sliced tomatoes on the side.
Donna Weeden, Paradise | Wise EC
I swim in Rockport.
Karen Beverly
I eat a fresh peach at the kitchen sink with the juice running off my chin and ruin a new white T-shirt. Happens every year.
Laura Pope, Temple | Bartlett EC
You’re wishing it was winter.
Nolan Bailey
I’ve had my first snow cone.
Gary Galloway, Weatherford | Tri-County EC
We go to Port Aransas.
Karen Miller Barnes
I make a batch of cherry pecan homemade ice cream for my family.
Nealia Adams, Livingston | Sam Houston EC
It’s almost always summer in Texas.
Rosann Bateman
You start wishing for winter again.
Scott Little, Dale | Bluebonnet EC
The cicadas start their buzzing sound.
Billie McCain
We sit on the front porch and watch the lightning bugs fly and listen to the evening sounds of summer in Texas.
Nancy Suson, Mound | Heart of Texas EC
You can fry your eggs on the sidewalk.
Jo Virgil
Barbecue with swimming and popsicles.
Caren Lee, Elgin | Bluebonnet EC
Till the grandkids show up.
Michele Denton
Your dress shirt becomes wet with sweat when you go outside for only a short time.
Michael Sonnier, George West | San Patricio EC
The hummingbirds come home to our back porch.
Ron and Sunny Taylor, Kempner | Hamilton County EC
It’s 100 degrees in the shade.
Charlie Geller, San Angelo | Concho Valley EC
It gets so hot that Barton Springs actually feels good and not freezing cold.
Mike Thomas, Lampasas | Hamilton County EC
You cut into that first watermelon.
Mary Williams, Jasper | Jasper-Newton EC
The night air is deafened by the sound of cicadas.
Earline Tomme, Rumley | Hamilton County EC
You have homemade ice cream and homegrown watermelon.
Connie Capps, Texarkana | Bowie-Cass EC
I hear the chorus of cicadas in the trees shading our yard.
Mary Beth Francis, Rio Medina | Medina EC
We’ve made a trip to Efurd Orchards and eaten peach ice cream.
Claudia Wills, Daingerfield | Bowie-Cass EC
You have watermelon.
Bernice Tarrer, Lakeport | Rusk County EC
You sit under an oak tree in the park eating a Dreamsicle ice pop.
Nancy King, Martindale | Bluebonnet EC
You lay out on the trampoline with your blanket and pillow and gaze up at the stars.
Vivian Auldridge, Goldthwaite | Hamilton County EC
I hear a locust sing and see a dragonfly on wing.
Sally Parkinson, Granbury | United Cooperative Services
You’ve gotten your first sunburn.
Julie Gorney, Trinity | Houston County EC
You forget to scrub down after working in the garden and wake up covered in chigger bites.
Debbie Lincoln, Morgan Mill | United Cooperative Services
You have that first bacon and tomato sandwich with a tomato from your garden or farmers market that tastes like a real tomato from your grandfather’s long-ago garden.
Deborah Thompson, Whitehouse | Bowie-Cass EC
Your pool water is too warm to swim in.
Dremma Haywood, Lone Oak | Farmers EC
You have a big slice of Texas watermelon—juice running down your chin—followed by a seed-spitting contest.
Ronny Ricks | Trinity Valley EC
You savor that first bite of homemade Parker County peach ice cream.
Brad Wahlert, Cresson | Tri-County EC
You dig into your first cold watermelon of the year.
William R. Moeglin, Georgetown | Pedernales EC
I can’t play 18 holes of golf due to the temperature.
Carol Mellerski, Flower Mound | CoServ
You eat watermelon on the Sabine River and watch your children’s watermelon rind war.
Rachel Johnson, Starks, Louisiana | Jasper-Newton EC
You see the goat weeds wilting.
Bobby Walker, Frankston | Trinity Valley EC
My family gets to the Frio River.
Nona Gardner, Garrison | Deep East Texas EC
You get your first chigger.
Fred McCauley, Dike | Farmers EC
The cicadas start singing.
Thomas E. Cathey Jr., Chandler | Trinity Valley EC
You smell homegrown, vine-ripened tomatoes.
Linda Coe, Cedar Park | Pedernales EC
The chiggers come out.
Sara Irvin, Clifton | United Cooperative Services
The snow cone lady opens up.
Sue Wells, Frisco | CoServ
That first spoon of homemade ice cream is enjoyed on the Fourth of July.
Mike Midkiff, Quitman | Wood County EC
The air conditioner breaks down.
Jack Chamberlain, Tuscola | Taylor EC
You’ve had homemade ice cream.
Susanna McDowell, Grapeland | Houston County EC
The skeeters skedaddle.
Greg Milam, Blanco | Pedernales EC
The watermelons are juicy red and ripe, there’s icy cold Blue Bell ice cream in the fridge, and the grill is fired up, filling the air with abundant flavorful aromas.
Patricia E. Archie, Huntsville | MidSouth EC
You can go to bed without putting on socks to keep your feet warm.
Linda King, Lubbock | South Plains EC
Snow cone stands open.
Bonnie Lowry-Sult, Gordonville | Grayson-Collin EC
You can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Crecre Johnson, Cedar Park | Pedernales EC
Everybody is wearing their flip-flops.
Randa Fuller, Woodway | Heart of Texas EC
You slice that first juicy, homegrown, vine-ripened tomato and savor it with a little salt.
Joan Worden, Lago Vista | Pedernales EC
You get your first bunch of chigger bites.
Allen Delger, McKinney | Grayson-Collin EC
You encounter at least one giant Texas redheaded centipede.
Barbara Dobbs, Fischer | Pedernales EC
I break out the ice cream churn for homemade Sunday ice cream.
Julie Tolliver Hicks | MidSouth EC
We’re frying okra.
Donna Neal Moore | Southwest Rural EC
Run through a sprinkler, drink from the water hose and then end the day chasing lightning bugs.
Shelly Haefy Crofford, Canyon Lake | Pedernales EC
The goat weeds start to grow.
Donna Chamblee Burns, Mabank | Trinity Valley EC
Until the mercury hits triple digits.
Doug Roach, Marble Falls | Pedernales EC
TV announcers fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Sally Risinger, Elmer, Oklahoma | Southwest Rural EC
The barbecue is hot, and the beer is cold.
K. Metzler, San Antonio | Pedernales EC
The cicadas and katydids compete for the loudest bug award.
Stephanie Alford, Fredericksburg | Central Texas EC
It’s too hot outside to go swimming.
Jeff Parsons, Mexia | Navasota Valley EC
Hot water comes out of both faucets.
Joan Josephs, Fredericksburg | Central Texas EC
Evenings on your back porch with a cool glass of sweet tea, watching lightning bugs.
Wanda Reichert, Sherman | Grayson-Collin EC
The water from the cold-water tap runs warm.
Peter Nieft, Austin | Pedernales EC
I see the first lightning bug flashing.
Tom Damron, Plano | CoServ
You dribble snow cone juice down the front of your T-shirt and don’t care.
Cranz Nichols, Burnet | Pedernales EC
You see a red bird.
Frank Graham, Irene | Navarro County EC
You see a cluster of 150 daddy longlegs on the eave above your front door.
Bob McIntosh, Mineola | Wood County EC
You have sweat running down your back walking 10 feet from your front door to your car.
Debra Skeens, San Marcos | Pedernales EC
I hear that first cicada, whirring louder and louder, confirming that the season has just changed.
Stephanie S. Murphy, Ennis | Navarro County EC
You can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Betty Jo Wilde, San Angelo | Concho Valley EC
I eat that first bowl of Mama’s homemade vanilla ice cream.
Alice Stewart, Hempstead | San Bernard EC
You can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Susan Bullard, Sherman | Grayson-Collin EC
The cicadas start singing.
Rhonda Smith, Granbury | United Cooperative Services
You are outside and feel the sizzling, 100-plus weather of the Rio Grande Valley.
Alejandra Pantoja, Weslaco | Magic Valley EC
You have tan lines.
JD Williamson, San Marcos | Pedernales EC
Hot water comes from both sides of the faucet.
Fred Greenwood, Brownsville | Magic Valley EC
The locusts drown out all other sounds.
Darren Hawthorne, Wylie | Farmers EC
You walk in the local Brookshire’s and find Blue Bell peaches and homemade vanilla ice cream.
Shirley Baker, Coldspring | Sam Houston EC
The Fourth of July picnic and fireworks.
Roxanne Brink, Lake Cherokee | Rusk County EC
You hear the long songs of cicadas on calm warm nights.
Earl O’Connor, Schroeder | Victoria EC
The thermometer hits 100 and you tube down the Frio.
Sylvia Barker, San Antonio and Kingsland | Pedernales EC
Swinging in the evening heat, listening to the cicadas, while watching the sun set in a sky of pinks and oranges.
Julie T. Hicks, Bedias | MidSouth EC
You get that first Mason County watermelon.
Chuck Bearden, Mason | Central Texas EC
You’ve felt that first chigger itch.
Diane Axtell, Marble Falls | Pedernales EC
We had sweet tea with lemon and mint leaves from the backyard.
Phyllis Doughty | Navasota Valley EC
You see the lightning bugs in the backyard.
Jana and Mark Piper, Springtown | Tri-County EC
We have a typical hot and humid Texas day when I feel like I’m swimming and I don’t even have a pool.
Rose Dowling, Allen | CoServ
The temperature hits 100.
Mollee Puckett, Marble Falls | Pedernales EC
Butterflies, fireflies and gardens rise.
Rick Vanderpool, Lubbock | South Plains EC
The cicadas start singing.
Lori Burns, Boerne | Bandera EC
Your first wasp sting.
Ken Calhoun, Pittsburg | Bowie-Cass EC
The lightning bugs start to glow.
Marion Kelsay, Winnsboro | Wood County EC
You hear the cicadas singing.
Jenny Cate, Franklin | Navasota Valley EC
When that first watermelon is sliced up.
John Martine, Buckhorn | San Bernard EC
The evenings are alive with the song of the cicadas.
Kay Daugherty, Marble Falls | Pedernales EC
You see fireflies.
Paul Goebel, Keller | Tri-County EC
Garden tomatoes and watermelon become a daily staple, and river shoes replace boots as most-used footwear.
Andra Millian, Dripping Springs | Pedernales EC
I hear the cicadas singing their songs.
Craig Kramer, Austonio | Houston County EC
You’re sweating while in the pool.
Wes Reagan, Hempstead | San Bernard EC
I eat my fried green tomatoes.
Sherry Scarborough, College Station | Bryan Texas Utilities
Your chigger bites have chigger bites.
Brad Shumate, Sanger | CoServ
I can take a shower without having to add any hot water.
Larry Murphy, Silver City | Navarro County EC
You attend a church picnic and dance the polka.
Jo Ann Darilek Dunlavy, Schulenburg | Fayette EC
The grandkids visit and want a fire in the fire pit to make s’mores.
Tammy Gerard, Jasper | Jasper-Newton EC
You have a BLT and watermelon meal.
Shirley Manfredi, Pilot Point | CoServ
The chickens stop laying.
Debbie Moore, Whitesboro | Grayson-Collin EC
That first homegrown tomato is turned into a BLT.
Rob Trippet, Comfort | Bandera EC
You can hear the cicadas above all other evening noises.
Denice Bailey, Midlothian | HILCO EC
You make that first gallon of homemade vanilla ice cream.
Hollis Browne, Snyder | Big Country EC
“You get a line, I get a pole, and we’ll head to the crawfish hole.”
Sherry Lane, Huntsville | MidSouth EC
You experience the five senses of summer:
See a flickering firefly.
Smell the sticky sweet of sunscreen.
Hear the pop and boom of fireworks.
Taste the cool juice of watermelon.
Feel 100 degrees.
Alecia Ormsby, Spicewood | Pedernales EC
The peaches are falling off the tree.
Coral Stricker, Lakehills | Bandera EC
We can fry our eggs on the sidewalk.
Lana Davis, Portland | Nueces EC
I hear the sound of cicadas.
Marieaan Kahts, Frelsburg | Bluebonnet EC
You can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Maydline Schultz, Edna | Jackson EC
You crack open an ice-cold Mexican Coke in 100-degree weather.
Raquel Morin | Medina EC
You sink your teeth into a big, red, juicy homegrown tomato with lots of salt.
Marilyn Johnson, Horseshoe Bay | Pedernales EC
You find yourself praying for October.
Carol Rogers, Denton | CoServ
The crick behind the house runs dry.
Jack Nichols, Port Aransas | Nueces EC
The mommas let their fawns come out of hiding.
Connie Janda, Smithville | Bluebonnet EC
You can pop the liquid tar bubbles on the asphalt with your toes (from my growing-up years in Port Arthur).
Cheryl Glasgow, Cedar Park | Pedernales EC
You’ve sat your 52-year-old shirtless body on the beach for eight hours with no sunscreen. Oweeeeee.
Ronny Kellar | Deep East Texas EC
I make my mother’s potato salad.
Kathy Boydston, Dripping Springs | Pedernales EC
February.
Steve Philippus, Lampasas | Hamilton County EC
You wake up, take a shower, go outside for 10 minutes, then need to take another shower.
Michael Castillo, Buda | Pedernales EC
That first freezer of homemade ice cream.
Marla Strickland, Fredericksburg | Central Texas EC
Eating watermelon in the sweltering heat amid the din of cicadas and mosquitoes.
Katherine Helterbridle, El Campo | Wharton County EC
I hear the cicadas sounding off.
Lynn Stringer Smith Rickman, Kaufman | Trinity Valley EC
You eat a roadside watermelon off the back porch.
Kim Wilson, Bandera | Bandera EC
The no-see-ums arrive.
Marlene O’Day, Frisco | CoServ
The cicadas start singing.
Sue Love, Andice | Pedernales EC
You get that first chigger bite.
Beth Tircuit, Bonham | Fannin County EC
The scissor-tails dance to the music of the cicadas.
Bruce Wheat, Buffalo Gap | Taylor EC
You’ve had shaved ice from your favorite local place.
Steve Rung, Austin | Pedernales EC
Local weather forecasters talk about the heat like it was something new.
James Connealy, Baytown | Navasota Valley EC
You’ve watched the fireflies flit in a dark sky.
Althea Driver, Childress | South Plains EC
The grass turns brown.
Linda Barbara, Tyler | Wood County EC
You hear the first music of the ice cream truck coming down the street.
Cindi Mladenka, Mason | Central Texas EC
The swimming pool feels warm like bathwater.
Bridget Palmer, Fort Worth | Tri-County EC
The temperature doesn’t get below 80 at night and the cicadas sing in the afternoon.
Steve Russell, Denton | CoServ
I’ve had my first plate of fried green tomatoes.
Pat Butler, Murchison | Trinity Valley EC
Someone gets stung by a wasp.
Iris Olivarez, Kurten | Bryan Texas Utilities
The grass is crispy.
John Hartman, Floresville | Karnes EC
You wish it was really fall already.
Donnie Askew, Streetman | Navarro County EC
All you can think about is Deep Eddy and Barton Springs.
Scott Johnson, Bastrop | Bluebonnet EC
The cicadas are singing in the trees.
Doug Adashefski, Lago Vista | Pedernales EC
It’s 80 degrees when you wake up in the morning.
Ed Lane, Chappell Hill | Bluebonnet EC
You can brew tea faster outside in a jar than inside in a teakettle.
Phyllis Poehlmann, Lometa | Hamilton County EC
You’ve shelled some peas listening to a cricket band.
Marlo Holbrooks, Gail | Lyntegar EC
You have had homemade ice cream on the porch with your family.
Norma Kilgore, Lubbock | South Plains EC
You hear the cicadas sing.
Jane Scaff, Leander | Pedernales EC
The cold-water tap runs hot.
Carol Borcherding, Comfort | Bandera EC
I see the lightning bugs out in my yard in the evenings.
Juana Bishop, Wimberley | Pedernales EC
Dried corn plant leaves are falling from the sky.
Marian Riegel, Moffat | Heart of Texas EC
It hits 98 in February for a high, yielding triple-digit days beginning in May, ending in October.
Red Rickard, Jewett | Navasota Valley EC
Your face is sticky and dripping with watermelon juice.
Sonia P. Lucio | Magic Valley EC
We hear a chorus of cicadas throughout the trees.
Bill Pfeiffer, Kingsland | Pedernales EC
