Humidity does funny things. It makes you feel hotter and that the climate has become decidedly muggier. In Australia where Summer runs from December to February, it gets muggy and humid even through March.

Some years back we visited Broken Hill on our state's northwest. Broken Hill actually goes on Central Time with South Australia seeing it is right on the border of SA. You can actually take a not-too-distant drive from Broken Hill to where the borders of our northern state, Queensland, our state New South Wales in the East and South Australia in the south converge. One good thing about Broken Hill is, in the Summer, the heat is dry, no humidity and you can get out of the sun in the shade and be much cooler than in, say, our state where humidity is more evident.

I guess you are wondering? Why the Salt and Pepper shakers?

For years we were using some quite ornate glass Salt and Pepper Shakers with silver tin tops. They looked nice on the table but the only problem was, especially for the salt...it would clog up in the shaker due to the humidity. Some have suggested putting some rice in with the salt to keep it drier in the shaker.

However, we discovered these little plastic shakers seem to do the job much better. So as undressy as they are, we find them far more functional and no salt clogging in the shaker anymore.