summertime...

the summertime of my youth was:

feeling the squishiness of the soggy, fresh grass under my bare feet as I sloshed around in the cold pools and streams of melted snow and spring rains that ran through my grandparent's back yard

being sprung from school early on Fridays for trips to lake taghkanic

games of 'mother may I' and 'red light green light' as the sun went down

then catching lightening bugs and letting them loose in my bedroom

waking to the sound of classical music and the delicious smell of Sunday breakfast wafting through the house...

picking black caps (and not being bothered by the heat, bugs or prickers) - it seemed like we'd pick bushels... but very few actually made it to the house - YUM!

swimming... for countless hours - until I practically had to be dragged from the pool with blue lips and chattering teeth!!

stalking around the yard catching frogs, salamanders and caterpillars

the sound of baseball games on my grandfather's transistor radio

hearing the dinner bell at the ranch and realizing the day is almost over =(

ice cream cakes from Carvel and Holy Cow

picking dandelions... a penny a piece

frog jumping contests at the rec on the 4th of July

going outside to wash my hair in the rain

dumping out our huge box of miscellaneous legos all over the living room floor on a boring, rainy day and building practically the same stupid multi-colored house every time

THE FAIR - our last hurrah before school started back up...

and finally... going to the local pizza place to stock up on pies for the winter

man I miss those days!!

technology...

so this morning I get a text from the spousal unit... basically a to-do list (because god knows I didn't already have a to-do list) it says:

litter – call about spigot/plumber – laundry?
Just ideas since Willow is complaining! Hehehe love you

~due to... several reasons - the house is a mess... Willow (our cat) doesn't like when the house is a mess!! she expresses her disapproval by scratching at the mess until you want to throw her out a window... anyway

so I text back to him:

pile of clothes...washing machine...tools in kitchen...kick thingy... stool (as long as we're listing things) :P

a to-do list for him...

and he says:

suck it lick it love it hehehehehe

HA! - so I say:

fix it – finish it – put it away

and he says:

know your role
shut your hole

HAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

ya just gotta love that man o' mine!!

a little while later I'm on facebook doing my daily '5 things' list (because everyone wants to know my top 5 pet peeves) when my sister pops in to chat...

she says:
the monkey (my niece) says HI!

So I said HI!!

she says:
the monkey says she loves you

then as I was saying it back - she said the monkey asked her if she thinks I'll say it back haaaa - as if I wouldn't!!

then she says:
she loves you again and she hopes all your dreams come true because she loves you so much all your dreams come true

have you ever heard anything so adorable in your life??!!

I LOVE technology!! - today anyway

goodness...

a lot of unpleasant crap has been going on mostly involving our friends The Bickersons (see right) that has been making me think about my husband and our life and how much I appreciate him and what we have - it ain't perfect but it works for us

the other day I was out hanging the laundry on the line and I couldn't help but smile - it's been absolutely GORGEOUS here in kittyville... sunny, breezy, temps in the upper 60's - in my opinion there is NO better weather (except maybe a thunderstorm!!) hehehe

all around me birds were singing, the smell of freshly cut grass was in the air , wild flowers are blooming everywhere

anyway... even the giant scary vultures flying overhead looked pretty swooping in their overlapping circles - and I thought how AWESOME that this is my life!!

to live in such a beautiful area - even to be in a town that allows me to have a clothes line - can you believe some places don't allow them? o_O
actually I don't know why that surprises me... where Ohio friend lives they don't even have recycling!!

to have the time to enjoy the world around me and for it all to be so awesome is really a blessing ya know?

with all the yuck going on in the world both far away and close to home it's nice to have such a wonderful life - a great guy that loves me to pieces and just sooooooo MUCH to be thankful for

as I was sitting at the picnic table pairing up socks to clip to the line I remembered the big reason I wanted this laptop was so that on nice days like we've been having lately I could sit out here while I do all my usual computery stuff - grocery list making, news reading, blog hopping and whatnot... hopefully 'whatnot' is more blog WRITING!!

I've really been neglecting the whole thing lately - for months now actually and it turns out I miss it =(
but maybe now that the weather is getting nicer I can climb out of the wintry fog and get back on track... OUTSIDE... with the fresh air, the birds, the flowers - and YOU =)