I went out to dinner this weekend...

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5. They just don't do that here in Florida - it's always too humid to be a help

Though one summer during a drought I put a sprinkler hose down the middle of the dressage ring. Some of my clients told me their horses loved going down the center line because that hose sprayed water on their chests and tummies and cooled them off. These were not the soaker hoses you see today, but had holes that sprayed water up about a yard or so.

Summers like that, if I got overheated working around the farm, I'd simply go to any of the hoses around the place and run the water over me. Water out of our well - which goes into the Florida Aquifer - comes out of the ground at 67 F so it was very refreshing and a good guard against heat prostration. It also rinsed the salt and dust off.

I'm really glad I am retired now!