when you have one thing you have to do all day
and it is called summer.
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“re: times in my life when i had one thing to do all day, but i still couldn’t get to it.
“i gotta go to the post office, but i’d probably have to put on pants.
and they’re only open until five.
looks like i’m going to have to do that next week.”
-jim gaffigan
nothing like a slow and easy saturday morning
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“saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.”
-mark twain
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art credit: franco matticcio, squirrel in tree
how to fit 4 kids and 1 log into 1 boat and get 2 to paddle it to make it move ahead?
use the trial and error and figure it out as you go method.
“if you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it’ll never happen.”
― d
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glen lake, glen arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2021
on glen lake as summer’s end approaches
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enrosadira- the exquisite glow that happens at sunrise and sunset.
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glen lake, glen arbor, michigan, usa
perfect day for a waterpark visit
full of
action, sun, squealing
and lots and lots of water
i’m at my best in the lazy river area.
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“as a group, we’ve been banned from two water parks, one bar, and a dog-grooming salon.”
-j.a. rock – author
(not me, just someone who also loves summer reading, but probably does not nod off like i do)
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“here is this delicious book and the whole day, both yours.”
the true pleasure or summer reading lies not so much in the novel itself, the writer hildegarde hawthorne explained in 1907, but the choice to devote oneself to it. summer reading as we now know it emerged in the u.s. in the. mid-1800s, buoyed by an emerging middle class and the birth of another cultural tradition: the summer vacation.
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Art credit: Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, Frederick Childe Hassam, 1914
“the first week of august hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year,
like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
the weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring,
and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,
but the first week of august is motionless, and hot.
it is curiously silent, too,
with blank white dawns and glaring noons,
and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
-natalie babbitt
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image credit: pinterest
I didn't have my glasses on.... 