An easily addressed and hijacked MMP - What do you think of when I say summer fun? Childhood summers? College summers? Last summer? Let’s have a happy topic this week!
Happy Moanday!!
First! Woot!
My idea of summer fun has changed over the years, it used to be the long break from school and then it was whatever I was doing as a teenager…now it’s more sunny weekends and music festivals. This past weekent, it was a friend’s birthday and she had a fancy dress party on a boat - great night out, great time with good friends and I got the chance to turn down a marriage proposal. That’s my current definition of summer fun!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 92 for the day and an eighty percent of rain/tstorms/apocalypse today and tomorrow. So far, pretty much nuttin’. We shall see.
Bein’ as I am a Summer baby, as a cub my birthday was lots of fun. I got to run around with my friends all day bein’ the little heathen that I was and then get ice cream, cake and presents. We roamed all over the place back then. We went to the community pool, the community center (it had a jukebox even!), the local drug store (lemon sours and really good burgers and such!), library, ball field, and well, everywhere! That kinda stuff just does not happen now apparently. Now I have a cee-mint pond so Summer is hang out there and relax time.
Ok, now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants sustenance. Then, alas and alack, 'tis Moanday, so purtification for irk must commence at some point.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
When we still had our sailboat, summer fun was getting out on the bay away from the crowds, just enjoying the sun and the water and the quiet. There are times when I really miss that, but then I think about all the other “joys” of boat ownership, and the feeling passes. 
I’m hoping future summer fun involves camping trips. We’ve had too many things going on this year, but as things settle, I want to do some 2-3 day trips to nearby parks. There are a bunch within a 4-5 hour drive - it’s just a matter of planning. So we shall see how that goes.
I’m a summer baby too, but earlier in the summer. Summers were about camp and organized activities and such because my parents didn’t trust me not to be a little heathen.
Irk is going great. I survived the first week and my boss is still looking forward to bringng me on permanently, provided civil service rules continue to cooperate. Meanwhile, I’ve got another interview this week and more invitations coming, so until I have an offer in my hand, I’m not saying no to those. My momma didn’t raise no dummy.
Summer fun to me is, in no particular order: da beach, camping, cookouts, hikes, bike rides, and just about anything done outside that isn’t a chore.
Yesterday, I actually mowed my lawn, instead of having the neighbor do it. I’d be lying if I said I did it non stop, 'cuz I needed a break with less than 10 minutes to go, but this was also after I had to shampoo carpets to appease VWife.
Fuck you, anemia. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I think of Sly and the Family Stone’s song, Hot Fun in the Summertime. Or was that Hot Sun in the Funner Time?
Either way… ear worm!
I’ve had some fun summers. In 2006 I played with a wind band in Ottawa, and in 2007 with the same band in Vancouver. In 2008 I went to Europe with my youth orchestra. In 2011 I went to New York, in 2012 Halifax, and earlier this summer I went to Toronto.
cough
Today I plan to go to the drugstore to see what I can find in terms of cough medicine.
Truthfully, I dislike summer. Any temp over 70 makes me want to hide. As a kid though my summer consisted of running out of the house in the morning, running around with my friends all day, coming in for dinner and running around outside at night. Most days we walked to the community pool which was about a mile away (not everyone had bikes). I remember being happy and carefree and my only concern was when the fall issue of Seventeen was coming out so I could see all the cool fall clothes. And I agree with lieu, the official summer song is “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”
Good morning all.
Summer fun doesn’t really have any meaning for me now. For a couple of years when I was a youngster, we’d have a Day Camp at the Rec center in the neighborhood (I lived in a neighborhood that was on top of a hill in Pittsburgh, surrounded by lots of woods (back then). Not so much woods now - that part of the city has undergone some massive development in the last 40 years.
Hmmm I thought I posted something about summer fun, but the hamsters must of ate it. So I got nothing.
Good morning all.
I can never remember when to use an apostrophe for “lets”.
Happy Moonday!
It’s a cloudy 73 degrees with a high of 82 projected. We’ll see.
I still have my bedroom window open because I like fresh air.
Today is a good day.
Nobody here but Sah-son, Sah-dog and me. Today will be pizza day instead of tomorrow.
The male HFH took and dogs and left yesterday, I don’t know for how long. The female half went out. My mother and her bf left for his house.
My summer fun song is In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM&feature=kp
I know it is a little sexist but it represents a carefree relaxed outlook on life.
Summer was fun as a kid because *no school *. No looking at the clock, nowhere I had to go, nowhere I had to be, nothing I had to do. I think that is one of the things I miss the most about childhood is that my life was never ruled by the clock.
We had a lot of family picnics back then.
In my teens after I bought my horse summer was spending all day at the barn (except for when I had to work to pay for the horse), long trail rides, hanging out with other horsey people.
Not too often but day trips to the ocean with a few friends, or to Hershey Park and Kings Dominion.
I’ve always liked the ocean better in the fall after most of the tourists have gone home.
Now I am waiting for the official inspection report, I have to scan and email some forms to my health insurance people, they finally got back to me about adding Sah-son to my plan. They were supposed to call me back in 10 days - that was back in June. Now I have a direct number to them. I also have another hospital bill to pay.
Sah-dog was sick last night and kept us up, he seems a lot better this morning, and the sun is coming out so today looks to be a good day!
back in the day, “summer fun” meant getting to the community pool as soon as it opened, laden with quarters for the pinball machines in the lounge, money for lunch from the snack bar, extra towels, sunscreen, a book or two, but no radio. They weren’t allowed. It meant hanging there all day with my friends. It meant playing Marco Polo, and having races in the lap lanes, and contests of who could stay underwater longest. When I was a little older, “fun” also included flirting with the lifeguards.
Summer fun meant no school, no job, and whenever possible, no parents.
btw - blurf
Summer means the hockey Booster Club Convention. But I couldn’t go this year. It also means putting out the 1st Christmas stuff at work.
Up and caffeinated. off to work in a bit.
You use the apostrophe when you’re saying “Let us” and you don’t when you mean allows or permits. I can’t think of any other use of let’s/lets, but I can’t brain today.
I put a load of towels out on the clothes lines, and as soon as I finished, the sun vanished into a huge bank of clouds. So much for our “mostly sunny” day…
Howdy from irk. Been a quiet mornin’ so far. Just dealin’ with a lot o’ paperirk which is what I knew I would be doin’ so no surprise there. [del]Minions[/del] assistants are out in the field takin’ new applications. So nice to have two people who can actually do this stuff without callin’ a hunnert times to ask me about stuff they should know. They just take off and go do. YAY!!!
Community pools appear to have been popular Summery things for a lot of us. Cool!
'Tis very cloudy out but as of yet still no rain. :dubious:
I got my inspection report.
It looks a lot worse on paper than it did in words.
**sari **- in my experience, such reports always make things sound worse than they are. We used to get them before buying boats, and based only on the report, we’d have never owned one! I’m guessing it’s largely CYA.
**swampy **- we had a public pool a mile or so away, but it was a bit $$ so we didn’t go all that often. My most vivid memory of that place was the summer “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” was released - it was played over and over and over on the juke box at the pool!
But we didn’t need the pool - almost every weekend, we went down to the place our grandparents owned on the Magothy River. We could swim, take out the boat, lie in the hammock, take walks, try to catch crabs, or just lie on towels and chill. Sadly, no one wanted to deal with it as my grandparents got older, so they sold the place. Everyone lived so far away and life got busy. But the memories are still good.
We had no community pool because we had no community.
My aunt did and she lived within walking distance and when I baby sat my cousins I could go to the pool. Thing is though, I never really liked community pools.
There used to be a bunch of beaches down this way, it was something like $5 for a car load of people. Those were fun days except the breaches had that horrible grass that hurt if you stepped on it in your bare feet. They all closed up, I heard because the liability insurance got to be too high. When I was a kid if somebody drowned it was an unfortunate accident, now everybody wants to sue.
Later my parents owned property in WV that was a private club. There was a ‘pool’ in the river, very nice and clear. You could see your toes, and no crabs to latch onto them, no sea nettles either. Once in a while a snake would swim through and everybody would have to get out while the lifeguards chased down the snake. Once when my father had a sunburn the fish would swim up and grab a piece of his peeling skin to eat. We thought it was cool, he wasn’t too happy about it. I can remember trying to corral the fish in the shallow end and trying catch them - as if.
Guess I need to call the realtor and start negotiating repairs.
I would like the seller to handle the code violations, no handrail on the attic stairs and the bathroom vents into the attic. I hope that there is no firewall between the two sides in the attic is not going to be an issue. The seller is a contractor, he should handle the loose shingles, loose gutters and loose porch railing as well. The roof is new so should probably be under warranty or whatever. And fix the electrical issues too.