It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means the official start of summer! Yay! So in honor of the sunny season, this week’s Friday Five is all about summertime…when the livin’ is easy.
- How did you spend the summer when you were young?
- What’s your secret for staying cool in the summertime?
- What’s your favorite summer vacation spot?
- What’s on your summer reading list this year?
- What’s your favorite summertime treat?
Leave your responses in the comments. My answers, after the jump.
- I didn’t go off to camp, or have to work at the family store or anything. My summers were pretty laid-back affairs, lazy days spent roller skating or playing Little House on the Prairie-dress up. Hopefully not at the same time.
- You can not put price on covered parking in Memphis in the summertime. I park in the shade at all costs. Also? Monistat Soothing Care is great for preventing chafing.
- Call me predictable, I love Destin. My husband and I have gone there nearly every year since we were married 15 years ago, and there is no place on earth where I feel as relaxed and at peace. I hope to retire to a beach house there one day.
- Summer is definitely the time for a little light reading. My to-read list includes: Dandy in the Underworld (Sebastian Horsley), Such a Pretty Fat (Jen Lancaster), Candy Girl (Diablo Cody) and Bringing Home the Birkin (Michael Tonello).
- I love, love, love grilled corn on the cob, with lots of butter and salt. Mmmm…tastes like summer.
Responses to “Friday Five”
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
i accidently pushed ’submit’ oops.
2. arnold palmers keep me cool in the summertime. it’s a half/half mix of lemonade and sweet tea. YUM.
3. it’s not extravagant but i always enjoy going to the lake for a long, peaceful weekend.
4. i think i’ll read all those books you gave me this summer. you know, the Bitter is the New Black Series…
5. shrimp kabobs, hands down.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
1. Babysitting … swimming in my friend Anne’s pool … helping Mom can tomatoes and make jam … playing “kick the can” with the Shaffers … sitting in the swing under the oak at my Grammy’s.
2. Pack the pantyhose and heels away with the sweaters; sandals or flip-flops all summer! Ponytails are your summertime friend. Unplug the stove.
3. The park and campground at the Peaks of Otter, Va., in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Or Half Moon Beach, Vieques.
4. Mr. Jefferson’s Women by Jon Kukla; Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner; The Bible salesman by Clyde Edgerton; Things I want my daughters to know by Elizabeth Noble; and The rope walk by Carrie Brown.
5. Strawberries picked and eaten in the field, local peaches and homegrown tomato sandwiches — white bread and Duke’s mayo, please.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:44 am
1. Riding horses. Barns do not have air conditioning. One summer it got up to 116. That’s pretty hot to be working hard. We used to rinse ourselves off, fully clothed, with the hose on the wash rack. I also remember walking to McDonald’s in the scorching heat just so we could sit indoors for a while.
2. Air conditioning is a wonderful invention. In places with no air conditioning, “accidentally” dropping an ice cube down the front of your bra is really nice on those 100 degree days. If it gets too hot I rub ice on my pulse points.
3. I don’t take vacations in the summer. I’m self employed with no kids and it doesn’t make sense to go places when they’re most crowded. If I did go somewhere, it would be somewhere North, with air conditioning.
4. Right now I’m working on a video game which involves rock stars so I’m reading books about rock stars. Those people are all crazy!
5. Fried chicken and cucumber sandwiches. The cucumber sandwiches should be made with thin sliced bread, lots of butter, and cukes marinated overnight in Italian dressing with red onions. Plus iced tea with lemon.
May 26th, 2008 at 1:43 am
1.Summers were at the water. A rented house on Long Island for a few weeks. And then, every weekend a beach, at the lake, the Sound, the Ocean, the Croton river (where we owned property). Water,water,water.
2. Cold showers. Also, where I live now, it doesn’t get very hot.(Northern CA.)
3.The Beach, especially, Hawaiian beaches.
4.Haven’t got a reading list yet, but definitely it has to be fun.
5. Italian ices.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
1. My family didnt take any vacations that I can remember, but I remember going swimming A LOT at the pool in Shelby Forest.
2.Air Conditioning and lots of it.
3.My favorite summer vacation spot is Perdido Key, FL or the swing in my front yard.
4.The Shack (William Young) and Deep Dish (Mary Kay Andrews)
5.Jerry’s Snow Cones!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
How did you spend the summer when you were young?
What’s your secret for staying cool in the summertime?
What’s your favorite summer vacation spot?
What’s on your summer reading list this year?
What’s your favorite summertime treat?
1. i always went to camp. for a few years when i was really young i did outdoor camp, all day, everyday. it was wretched. i always did church camp for a week too. when i was in high school, i went to the beach two or three times a summer. that’s why i am not much of a beach fan anymore…
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