Summer Daze

Apparently summer is over. Two weeks ago, in mid-July, the back-to-school ads started. AAAAACCCCKKKK! My daughter and I scream whenever we see one on TV and quickly mute the sound. It's very hard to live in the moment when all the signs want us to plan for the future.

For the record, there are 4 weeks and change until school starts. We still have plenty of summer left. We have two sets of visitors still to come. I still have lots of time to make good on all those summer projects I was sure I would do--finish sewing a purse with my daughter, painting my bedroom, making a square-foot garden box. Since I haven't done any of those projects, it's proof that summer has hit full-on because I'm in the sleep-in, laze-around-reading, see-a-movie phase of the summer. All those productive visions have drifted away in a soft breeze like a puffy white cloud across a blue sky.

Today, of course, it's raining. It does do that here in the summer, though rarely. But who can paint when it's humid, or build a garden box when the grass is wet? We could sew, I suppose, but that's a project for when we have several hours and we don't 'cause we have a lunch date with G-pa. So, I better get off the couch and out of my jammies because it's just about time to pick him up for lunch.

If that's not summer, I don't know what is!