“The Dog Daies” It’s been a relatively quiet week at Yak as we lope into the Dog Days of Summer: Pandemic Edition. Historically, the “dog daies”, as medieval scribes called them, begin on July 3rd, and coincide with the time of the year when the Sirius star system appears to come closest to the sun. The name Sirius comes from Homeric Greek, referring to “Orion’s dog”. To the ancient eye, this seemed to be the reason summer was the hottest at this period: the brightest star in ...
