Summer Memories ... add yours!

[Karen]

It has been awfully hot and muggy the past few days, and we may have a thunderstorm tonight, which would be good!


One of my favorite summer memories was sitting and playing rummy on the porch during thunderstorms with my grandfather, Bummy. (My eldest cousin couldn't pronounce Grandpa as a kid, and her name for him, "Bummy" stuck, no disrespect was ever intended.) Playing cards with Bummy was fun because he never "let" you win, so if you actually beat him, it was extra fun!

[ramanth]

Getting Root Beer Floats from my Grandma right after swimming in the lake. Grandpa would sit there and pout and then ask, "Where's mine?"

Being ankle deep in muck catching turtles, frogs, and tadpoles. Taking the tadpoles home and watching them grow into frogs.

Taking the old army jeep for rides in the woods and looking for deer tracks, coyote tracks, and birds.

Watching the sun set while listening to the loons.

I miss summers at my grandparent's cottage sooooo much.

[chocolatepuppy]

Some of my fondest summer memories as a child would have to be the many camping trips my parents took us on.

[zippy-kat]

Riding Miss Mare through the sprinklers!


When I was little and we'd go back to WV to visit family, my mom would sometimes wake me in the mornings by putting bunnies in bed with me. I'm usually a light sleeper so, it didn't take much movement to wake me. As I'd "come to," she'd softly say, "Hold real still." and it was about that time that they'd hop, hop, hop up to the pillows for cuddles.

[Moesha]

My maternal grandmother and her sister lived in Florida. During the summers they would come and stay in a single wide trailer on our property. We would go over there and play with them every day. I fondly remember games of whist and eating tuna sandwiches cut into four pieces, on the diagonal.

I also remember one summer when our tv was broken acting out scenes, real and made up, from Return of the Jedi with my siblings almost every day in our living and dining rooms.

[Suki Wingy]

Kimmy, your summers sound the best!

[ramanth]

Kimmy, your summers sound the best!

They were definitely a blast.

Here's my sisters and I stalking minnows in the shallows (I'm in the middle). We used butterfly nets to catch everything BUT butterflies. LOL!

[Karen]

Still no thunderstorms, but I am ready for rain and cooler air!


Our Saint Bernard, Freckles, loved being in the water. But the silliest thing ever was swimming out over our heads, calling her and then diving underwater and waiting. She'd jump in to rescue us, and it was hysterical to see her swim toward you. Her normally floppy ears would float, as would her jowls, and her paws, spread wide for swimming with those webbed toes - they looked as big as baseball mitts! It was very hard not to surface to burst out laughing before she'd get to you and "nudge" you up!

[Lady's Human]

Those were "nudges"?

Freckles didn't "nudge" much of anything. She was subtle....like a sledgehammer.

[Karen]

That's why I put the "nudge" in quotes! What Freckles considered a "gentle nudge" could knock over an unsuspecting person! Especially on snowy ground - but that's a winter memory!

[RICHARD]

Camping!

All the preps. Making sure the dates were during the full moon, first night meals! The little cleft in the in the hills where you can see the twinkling lights from civilization. he wolves at the campsite during the moonrise. The bear!!!!!

[pitc9]

Going out to my uncle's property he has near Meadville, PA and camping for a week at a time with my family.

The slip-n-slide we had, well... actually, it was a blue tarp... but hey what ever works right?!

Spending endless hours at the city pool, then going home and sleeping or a few hours because I was so tired!

[kuhio98]

Jumping off the fishing pier into the Gulf of Mexico ~ Mississippi
Getting chased by water buffalo while collecting tadpole eggs from rice patties ~ Taiwan
The smell of hot dust during a summer shower ~ Alaska

Unfortunately, since we were in the military, none of my summer memories involve relatives. We were always moving halfway across the world during the summer.

[Almita]

When i was younger, my brothers still living here. We would stay up at night, and leave to go to a fast food place and order food, then we would go on the roof of our house, and just eat.

Also, we would go to Yuma, to visit my family and have parties, getting to see everyone was always great.

Another memory, we would go to san diego, and go to sea world. Which made me love san diego so much!

Miss those days

[moosmom]

Our family had a small lot on Bolton Lake. All the men in the family built a small garage, complete with a port-a-pottie. We had some WONDERFUL summers there growing up. I go here a lot when it's nice out. I want to go kyaking on it (I rowed in High School). We used to have a sailboat (Sunfish). If only I could go back to that era for one more time. Back then there were no worries (you were a kid!! what is there to worry about at that age??)

Bolton Lake is my all time favorite place to go.