Summer...(I think you can call it that)

So summer came and went in a blur this year. What an odd summer (year) this has been. The summer itself was disappointing (the coolest we've had in a while)... and I have craved the sun and heat this year even more than others (perhaps its from getting old). I can say thankfully that there were two beautiful days (upper 80's) that I spent at the Puyallup Fair...(then Margaret went home and took the sun with her!). I am glad we got those two days!

I also had one wonderfully hot day just outside Santa Rosa, CA. We ate lunch (outside mind you) at a beautiful little winery...The Crushed Grape...(I believe that was it). Outside in the shade that day it was 102 degrees. It was the first time (in a long time) that I thought..."It's too hot out here." Of course, I could not possibly say that to Doug and Margaret (I have done nothing but whine about the lack of heat) so I kept saying "Are you sure you're ok out here, honey?" Unbelievably, he kept saying, "Yea, I'm ok". So I had to suck it up and sweat through lunch. Needless to say, I had enough heat for that day.

Aside from those few days of heat, the other great thing about this summer has been discovering the hottub. I don't know what took Doug and I so long to actually get it up and running (we kept saying "Ah, we don't care about hottubs...) but Wow! after we did, we couldn't stay out of it. For me the warm water and the smell of chlorine gave the illusion that I was actually having a summer. I kept having alternating flashbacks of summers spent in the Jacksonville Rec Center pool and of every hotel hottub we've enjoyed over the years.

Now the rains have returned and well....fall is settling in as usual. At least the hottub is covered...I can still go out there and pretend.