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[hullie]

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@Sassy7356 wrote:

You all must have a Summer Story.  What was your first summer job?  Do you remember playing outside until dark? What's your favorite thing to cook/bake/BBQ in summer?  You get the idea.  Share a summer story with us.

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@Sassy7356 

So many summer memories. One that evokes a smell memory is with my girlfriend's peeling clothes off to swimsuits underneath in locker room at pool and before we went out we had to rub some Ambush stick cologne lavishly all over us. I'm sure everyone smelled us coming out to pool, ha! We were only in fifth or sixth grade but had to smell good for the boys. That scent will forever be associated to summer days.

 Babysitting was my first paying job but after that was roguing and detasseling in Iowa cornfields. I liked the outside job better. Then worked in my dads grocery store in high school. 

Ghost ghost out tonight was a favorite neighborhood dusk game. Basically everyone hid except one who had to tag all the others before they got home. 

We didn't have air conditioning growing up, maybe mom and dad had a window one in their bedroom and on the hottest of nights we'd sleep on the floor in their room with dad always yelling shut that door! 

[Sweet Caroline 1]

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@Sassy7356 wrote:

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Dear @Sassy7356,  Love this!  

[Sweet Caroline 1]

Happy first day of summer!  Dear @Sassy7356,  Thank you for this new summer thread!  We'll all have a wonderful time and I hope the summer memories keep coming from friends.  I'm always looking for fall once the weather gets hot.  But this summer, I'm going to enjoy each and every day that the Lord gives me because I've learned that every day is a blessing.  Love you dear friend!  

[Sweet Caroline 1]

Happy Summer friends!  And happy wednesday!  At the top of my summer bucket list, a chance to get to splash around in a swimming pool.  I already have my bottles of bubbles and have been having fun blowing bubbles at the dogs.  I look forward to eating cantelope and watermellon and sitting outside under the stars with a cool drink.  

I hope all of us have a summer of fun with a pause in unhappy events.  God bless all of us with a giant hedge of protection around us so that we may enjoy the summer and each other.  Love to all!  

[Sweet Caroline 1]

Sorry,  I'll get my ex husband out of the pool.  

[meallen616]

World Giraffe Day  June 21

[meallen616]

[mousiegirl]

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@Sassy7356 wrote:

You all must have a Summer Story.  What was your first summer job?  Do you remember playing outside until dark? What's your favorite thing to cook/bake/BBQ in summer?  You get the idea.  Share a summer story with us.

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@Sassy7356   Yes, my friends and I would play hide-and-seek in the dark with just the street lights and lights from homes the only light, such fun, no one would dare do that now.

When I was young, summers consisted of going to a different camp for the Summer as my Mother worked, and I would come home at the end as brown as a bear.

As a teen, it was just being around friends, and walking to a Foster's Freeze and buying an enormous, tall ice cream cone, loved the softee ice cream.

When DD was little, we would spend many weekends in Monterey at a beach hotel and she would lie on a board in the surf. guess this is called body surfing, while DH would stand near-by, and I would take pictures.

[mousiegirl]

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@Tissyanne wrote:

I grew up in a neighborhood full of mostly girls, and we loved to play outside. I had a swing set in the backyard, and there were nice  sidewalks where I would roller skate, and ride a skate board.

We also rode bicycles, and we put cards on the spokes for noise. Lol. 

Our home was on the corner lot, and there was a city lamp post there. All these many years later, I can hear my mother calling out to me after dark to come in. 

My daddy cooked on the grill during the warm months. He also made homemade vanilla ice cream often. 

Fond memories for sure.

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@Tissyanne I remember many of the things you spoke of here.  But, I grew up in a neighborhood of boys so I played baseball, kickball, and dodgeball.  There was an older lady that lived near us and every summer her granddaughter would come and stay for a month or so.  One day we decided to have a rock throwing contest - throwing from the end of the driveway towards the house.  Little did I know at that time I could throw that far.  One throw and right through a window my rock went.  

My bike always had streamers and sometimes cards on the spokes.  The summer when I graduated from training wheels I still hadn't grasped the idea or the how to put on the brakes.  When I would get to the end of the street I would jump off the bike, run home, and tell that the bike was laying in the intersection or across the street.  I wasn't allowed to cross the street myself.  But, when I did get the hang of it I got a brand new bike.  It was turquoise.  I was so happy that I knew how to ride and stop that I would pedal up and down the street laughing like Woody Woodpecker over and over again.  I am sure it was annoying to our neighbors but they never said a word.

There was the summer when I was very young that I was signed up to take swimming lessons.  I hated getting in the pool and going underwater and all the kicking.  I decided I would hang out in the changing room and just take a shower to appear wet before going home.  It didn't help that the manager of the swimming pool was our neighbor.  He was quick to tell my parents that I was absent from lessons.  

No matter how hot and humid it was we played outside.  We didn't have air conditioning so you didn't notice the difference.  

Since I have a summer birthday all the boys were invited.  When it came to singing Happy Birthday I would cry.  I guess I didn't like the attention on me.

A lot of my memories come from summer and there are many more I could share but the post would be way too long.

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@Sassy7356   Summer is three months long, so you can post here and there about your Summer memories.

I rode my bike all year long, roller skated until I had the accident that put me on crutches for one year and an at home tutor, and also sat on a board on a skate, bad for the back, all of those cracks in the squares of cement on the sidewalk.

There were no outside grills anywhere, so I first tasted charcoal grilled when I met DH, I think, and I was hooked.

[mousiegirl]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

My favorite time of year!

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@Lucky Charm   I hope you continue to join us each day!  It seems that people really summer or as @just bee would say, "dragged, kicking and screaming, into summer".

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@Sassy7356   I agree with just bee, I could have Spring all the way to Fall and be happy as a clam, and so would my plants.