Summer Memories ... add yours!

[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!