I'm ready to relax and do blissful nothing for a couple of weeks. I'm always relieved when the commercial hoopla of this season is over.
December over here is when bugs are at their most prolific -- everything from the giant Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, and cicadas, crickets, bees and beetles to flies, ticks, mosquitos, wasps, and stinging ants.
The heat causes itching. One develops a paranoia that every itch might be the bite of something that carries a disease. I will be indoors as much as possible.