I was out back doing some chores, and I noticed how nice it was. It is a hot day here, but I was underneath a nice canopy of tree bracnhes in some deep shade, and there is a steady north breeze. Very pleasant indeed!

It got me to thinking about how nice summer is in general, and brought back some memories.

What are your favorite summer memories?

I have a LOT of them LOL.

Late summer football practice, hot and dry-mouthed, bruised as hell, but feeling good for beating all that (and getting sacks in scrimmage!)

As a teenager, playing D&D, taking a break to go outside from an overly airconditioned house to the outdoors, and fell a balmy breeze and get a good sniff of the trees from the greenbelt (cough cough, undeveloped creek bed ;>). Those all night sessions almost every night in the summer.

This one is funny; catching a breeze off the pool, which took me back to being a security guard a few years ago, and taking in the waft of chlorine, which brought up memories of lounging out by the pool when I was a Marine, which reminded me that I had memories from THEN of playing in the pool as a kid LOL. It is funny how nostalgia works!

As a kid, making whirlpools in the pool: all us kids would walk the perimeter of the oval pool, getting faster and faster until we created a current. Then we would chill out and ride the current around until it died down...when we would start all over. We even got to the point where the grownups would ask us to make the whirlpool so they could get in their floats and drink beer ROFL

After work get togethers, walking down 6th Street with a good buzz on inside you and the heat of the early evening working on you from the outside.

Disneyland and Six Flags (Dallas) with my cousins

College summer session; the campus wasn't quite deserted, but it wasn't as hectic as the fall or Spring semesters, and the professors weren't as serious. It seems like my summer classes were always funner than the others.

Going out to the lake as a kid

Family vacations; this was New Orleans (or maybe the Riverwalk in San Antonio). Take heed...this is probably the only picture you will see me sad with a BAR sign in the pic!

This was out in Fredricksburg, Texas, at the Admiral Nimitz Museum...or maybe this was the at the Battleship Texas. To tell you the truth. we haven't really kept a good track of our digital album ;>

We liked the lake so much my Dad bought a boat! I'm in the yellow lifevest

But most of all, hanging out with my cousins! We used to have all sorts of fun and trouble! This was us before we discovered beer (minor lie...we would steal beer from the adults, and they would laugh at each other for drinking too much of it, not realizing where it was really going ;>)