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Summer lovin. Top ten summer memories.

Summer is my favorite time of the year. I want to savor each minute. So Stasha’s Monday Listicles this week is perfect for me.

A list of LIST OF 10 SUMMER MEMORIES.

 

10. Blueberry snowcones.

 

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Peering through the window of the vendor’s trailer at New Smyrna Beach while he pours blueberry syrup on a snowpile of ice.

 

9.  The sound of a Honda motor scooter.

The buzzzz of those rental motorbikes going back and forth on the beach all day long was almost as much part of the day as the roar of the waves.

 

8.  Staying up late watching Johnny Carson.

When home from college, all I would have to do was wake up in time to roll into some job. I’d stay up late, sitting in bed watching Johnny and Ed.

How fun if I could do that tonight.

 

7.  Summer Tennis Camp.

Which I actually hated. Not that I hate tennis but whole lining up and hitting the ball only to be made to play games at end of week. No thank you.

But I did it every year. Azalea Lane or Rollins College. Usually riding my bike there with my friend. She didn’t seem to mind it. Ugh.

 

6. Fireflies.

Fireflies don’t exist in Central Florida. I held my breath every summer visiting my Georgia grandmother as darkness descended and the light fairies began twinkling over her snapdragons.

 

5. Popsicles.

 

4. Tomato sandwiches with lots of mayo.

 

3.  Being bored.

 

2.  Fishing, fishing, fishing

I was definitely a tomboy and grew up with white lake sand and stinky sulfur -smelling lake water between my toes. As a girl, I would spend most summer days fishing in the little lake in front our house.

 

1. Trying to capture a bit of all that with my children.

Each summer, I do try and travel back down the bumpy road of the last few decades and experience the carefree, sleeping in, tennis camp, Johnny Carson-watching summer days of yore.

And every now and then…usually when I smell the tomato leaves in my garden or see the blinking firefly I take a deep breath and I am there.

What about you?

 

 

 

 

           

           

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