It's six days until football season starts, and eight days until the first Alabama game.

                

...I've been watching my Mr. Giddy's Countdown to Kickoff Calendar all year long. We're almost there.

It doesn't feel like football here in the Valley of the Sun - yesterday it was 113 F, and the forecast for today is even hotter than that. There are none of the seasonal indicators of autumn - well, the leaves are falling off the trees, but that's because the trees are all DYING in this *&^%$# heat.

Ethel mentioned the other day that she's ready to cook up a bowl of chili and turn on the fireplace. She has no idea what the actual temperature is, of course -  menopause will do that to you.

#5 Alabama (I don't know why they are ranked #5 - they lost the last two games of the season, and our quarterback has never played a game) opens the season against #7 Virginia Tech (I don't know why they are ranked #7, either) at the Georgia Dome, starting out the season playing a ranked ACC team once again. It won't go like it went last year.

But even though it won't be at all cool weather, and even though we won't go undefeated thhrough the regular season again, it'll still be football season....the only downside being that it's another football season; the other one was over just the other day, and they keep going by faster as I have fewer and fewer of them left.

Roll Tide!