Following a long winter and a seemingly longer, cold spring, it seems that warmer weather has finally arrived. Shivering and cursing the snow and sleet will soon be replaced by swatting black flies and mosquitoes, but we look forward to the changing seasons and all their challenges. You might say it’s nature’s way of appealing to our ever-shrinking attention span.
Along with pleasant temperatures comes the automotive metamorphosis. Off goes the heat, on comes the air conditioning. Aggressive winter tires give way to the stacked-up summer tires hiding in the shadows of the barn.
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