Mid Summer Monday Musings

This house is so HOT!
It makes me wish I were somewhere else--somewhere cool and frosty and air-conditioned--even work seems enticing now.

Don't those two little girls look cool and comfortable in their summer clothes? That's me and my sister, some 45 years ago. I am the darker haired one, er...with my hands in a less than lady-like position. I have a few photos from my childhood where I am in that same pose. Maybe having to pose for the camera triggered a need to visit the toilet? Or maybe I innocently thought this was the appropriate way to hold my hands?

And, no, I was never a particularly cute kid(skinny with sleepy small eyes). Although, my sister(who was the cute one with white -blonde hair and big brown eyes) looks like she is possessed in the photo!

But, never mind the heat now. I have been wanting to try to capture my random thoughts and observations here again, so I'll keep at it. Even though this is the warmest room in the house(the computer giving off heat, perhaps?) and I am re-writing this again since Blogger(or might it have been me?) did something screwy a minute ago and I lost everything I wrote.

It certainly feels like summer(the weekend was hot and the beaches were packed) and very appropriate for this-- the summer solstice. R just finished school today after taking her last two final exams. I still haven't seen her since she had two parties to go to after school today. Right now, she is at the second one, where there is going to be a bonfire built and she and her friends plan on burning their school papers.

Me, I think I'll sit out on the back deck this evening and watch the bats in the sky. And then watch the fireflies. There seem to be a lot of fireflies early this summer(noticed them last week)

I saw two mildly surprising sights on my way home from work today.

As I sat at the red light directly across from the town beach parking lot, I noticed an elderly man, dressed in khakis and a pale blue long-sleeved Oxford shirt sort of staggering, half bent over in the parking lot. I sensed his walking was a bit of work for him these days, and noted how that contrasted with the youthful, near naked bodies all around him. Then it seemed he was really struggling, but it turned out that he was actually fumbling in his pocket to get out his ringing(vibrating?)... cell phone! I did not expect to see that elderly man with a cell phone pressed to his ear, walking along.

And then the light changed.

As I drove further along, I passed a small group of motorcyclists and one of them had this amazing moustache! It was long and grey and curled and flying in the wind as he drove.

Well, someone is setting off fireworks in this neighborhood(and it is more than a week until Independence Day!) and that's all I can take of this heat. I am going to go and fix myself a drink(vodka, pomegranate seltzer and lime sounds good) and cool off.