Summer seems to last 4-5 months here. I don't mind it because we all have central a/c. But it does get monotonous.
I do too.
When I was a kid, I had a friend whose father worked for the B & M Railroad. I wondered why a railroad was selling beans. There were other days when I wondered why a bean company was operating a railroad. In my defense, I was still young enough to believe in the tooth fairy.