On Summer

I know that summer doesn’t officially begin until this weekend, but when the temperature is hitting 91 degrees, I don’t think we can call that spring, can we? My thoughts about summer:

Likes:

• Reading.
• Cookouts.
• Watching friends play softball (I retired after rupturing my Achilles tendon).
• Wimbledon.
• July 4 celebrations.
• The summer movie-going season.
• Fishing.
• Going for ice cream.

Dislikes:

• It lasts too long.
• It’s way too hot (about 40 degrees hotter than I prefer).
• Bugs, more specifically, bees.

What I Miss:

• Going to the drive-in theater.
• Taking one my nieces to an amusement park when she was small. She’d squeal on the rides, and demand my attention, and I loved it.
• Cruising with friends for the mere sake of it.

Truths:

• The A/C can never be set too low. It just can’t.
• Baseball is still a great sport—even if many of the current occupants have tainted it.
• Dressing down is more accepted—that’s a good thing.