Friday Five: Dog Days of Summer

Singing Owl at RevGalBlogPals suggests this timely (for me) FF on the HOT days of summer that drag on and on in south TX.


1. What is the weather like where you live?
It is hot and humid in south TX. High temperatures near 100 degrees F and low temperatures at 80 degrees each morning. I do not want to be outside at all. What a relief it is to get inside the air-conditioned car or walk into a cool HEB supermarket!

2. Share one thing you love about this time of year.
When the kids were little, we loved to take them to the beach every Sunday. (I guess that's a "memory.")

It's a lazy time; there are vacations; the kids come to visit and stay; I can hang clothes out on the clothesline to dry every day.

3. Share one thing you do NOT love about this time of year.
The HEAT and HUMIDITY that lasts until OCTOBER!!!

4. How will you spend the remaining days leading up to Autumn?
Since "Autumn" really does not arrive until the end of October, I do not think of it happening until then. This is the time I struggle most with the extreme heat, because I grew up and taught school in the NW, where it starts feeling like fall this time of year.

However, all my volunteer and teaching activities start up after Labor Day. So I have to start getting ready for those. Also, I want to get back into the cleaning out mode, which I began before our trip to Alaska.

5. Share a good summer memory.
(See #2 above)

Wonderful memories of taking my children back to Bellingham, WA for a month every summer. My mother and I would take them to park after park.

Bonus: What food says SUMMER to you?
Fresh berries (and other fruit)! Boundless supplies of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries when we visit in the NW!! My mother used to grow all but blackberries in her backyard; how the kids (and I) liked to pick them on our visits home!