Officially--as of 11:59 P.M. last night, and I'm going swimming right now ( Read more... )

Aloha ( Read more... )

Maybe it's because today's Memorial Day, marking the official start of summer, or just that I've been "home" since May 2006 (when I traveled to Charleston for the wedding of friends I met on atxf years ago), but I've got some serious itchy wanderlust going on ( Read more... )

The first ice cream truck of the season drove down my home street just ahead of me--fortunately, I passed it and pulled into my driveway in time to run out and buy my first *real* Popsicle of summer--a red/white/blue Bomb Pop!

YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I started the day off with watering my garden--my hydrangeas are really beginning to bloom, which is a sure sign that summer's here ( Read more... )

On the way home this afternoon, I saw a little boy and girl standing on the sidewalk with a cooler and a table, selling lemonade. The little boy was waving a hand-made cardboard sign at the cars passing by. I whizzed by, but then I stopped and turned around. Getting out of the car, I walked up to them and asked what they had. "Lemonade, sugar ( Read more... )