What are you looking forward to this summer?

[KingAHolic]

Hubby getting better so we can start going to 20+ ball games on our plan (a half dozen we have had to trade in for later dates) - hopefully 1 beach vacation (Virginia Beach) and 1 site-seeing vacation (TBD).

We won't do the Florida stint until late Fall / Early Winter and likely will be heading to the Keys.

 

[hossenpepper]

We won't do the Florida stint until late Fall / Early Winter and likely will be heading to the Keys.

Oh good, they just finishing painting all the rainbow cross walks in Key West!

 

[KingAHolic]

Oh good, they just finishing painting all the rainbow cross walks in Key West!

I'll warn my husband.... I'm the liberal in the family!

 

[Sigmund]

As much as I hate cold and snow, there's no way I'd trade it to have to live in the kind of humidity you Southern folks deal with in the summer. Having to go from air conditioned house, to air conditioned car, to air conditioned wherever you were going and not be able to enjoy the outdoors wouldn't be worth it. I do have to remind myself of that around the middle of January and February when it's minus 20 or 30 or we're in the middle of a blizzard.

And the few minutes it takes to walk from your car to a building/home ...a heavy, wet blanket falls over you and sucks the life out of you. And the only way you can wear your hair is up. I don't care who you are or what you do, hair up away from the back or your neck. Have mercy.

 

[hossenpepper]

I'll warn my husband.... I'm the liberal in the family!

Ummmm.... you'll be 2 of 16 people who aren't gay in Key West, in case you didn't know.

 

[hossenpepper]

And the few minutes it takes to walk from your car to a building/home ...a heavy, wet blanket falls over you and sucks the life out of you. And the only way you can wear your hair is up. I don't care who you are or what you do, hair up away from the back or your neck. Have mercy.

Wimps... the lot of you...

 

[KingAHolic]

Ummmm.... you'll be 2 of 16 people who aren't gay in Key West, in case you didn't know.

We'll just add to the cultural diversity - they'll love us!!!

 

[hossenpepper]

We'll just add to the cultural diversity - they'll love us!!!

They are pretty accepting of... well, anything, in Key West. It's an awesome place though. Make sure you got to Kermit's Key Lime Shoppe and get a pie bar. Sooooo yummy!

If you go the last week of October you can REALLY indulge in "diversity" at Fantasy Fest! This year they are having the "All Hallows Intergalactic Freak Show". Hope nudity (mostly male) doesn't bother you, though...

 

[KingAHolic]

They are pretty accepting of... well, anything, in Key West. It's an awesome place though. Make sure you got to Kermit's Key Lime Shoppe and get a pie bar. Sooooo yummy!

If you go the last week of October you can REALLY indulge in "diversity" at Fantasy Fest! This year they are having the "All Hallows Intergalactic Freak Show". Hope nudity (mostly male) doesn't bother you, though...

Won't bother me, will just send hubby off on a fishing charter if he gets fidgety.

 

[PatInTheHat]

...the druggist will sell me a gun?...COOL..."gimmee a Glock and a dozen of your finest Percocets my good man!"....

HA!-SNRT-HA!
Ya see, now your gettin' it, I mean who wants to buy a pistola from a wino, you don't know where that's been!

 

[Neesy]

Well like 'ghost19' I am not a fan of the heat; at least not the extreme heat we get here. I live about a 5
minute walk from Okanagan Lake and in that area is an area of beach not many know about so I often go down there
to take pictures and cool off. I spend a lot of time taking pictures in the area where I live. Go out on my friend's boat
every chance I get too.Like the outdoor markets they have here and like going to them. And of course going to all
the used book stores and thrift shops looking for books.

I heard that Okanagan Lake has a monster - do you think that's true?

It's called Ogopogo

I bet you this is the view he gets when viewing you from the water!

 

[swiftdog2.0]

This song just seems to capture what Summer was all about during my misspent youth. 5150 was basically the soundtrack of my High School summers. That opening guitar riff instantly brings back a flood of memories: Hanging out at the beach parking lot or at HoJos during summer nights. Just BSing and listening to and absorbing all types of music, hours of endless crusing around, trying to act all "cool" in front of the girls (and usually failing miserably), street racing & urban surfing (shhh....don't tell anyone!), the opening night Batman riot of 1989, earning a "lifetime ban" from the local go-kart track for disabling the speed governors so we could go faster, SwiftDad teaching me to drive in his 1969 Firebird (it didn't look like much but she sure could go), pool parties and BBQ's, the Six Flags trip the summer I graduated, days spent at the beach when I worked a second shift job, the dozens of shows my friends and I went to (you haven't lived until you've been to a punk show downstairs at the Middle East in July when it's like 120 degrees in there) and just generally good times spent with my friends and family.

Heck, this song leads off my Summer Songs playlist on my iPod It always puts a smile on my face \w/

 

[Moderator]

And the few minutes it takes to walk from your car to a building/home ...a heavy, wet blanket falls over you and sucks the life out of you. And the only way you can wear your hair is up. I don't care who you are or what you do, hair up away from the back or your neck. Have mercy.

Yet another reason why I prefer the climate in AZ to FL or anywhere where there's that much humidity. About 5 minutes in that and my hair could be a top contender for the Janis Joplin look-alike contest--not a pretty sight. It wasn't easy growing up in the '60s when the prevailing fashion was long, straight hair.

 

[Moderator]

My summer plans are to repair the screening in my screen house so I can enjoy the outdoors bug-free and weed and mulch my flower gardens. Also need to remember to get a spare air horn just in case the bear decides to visit again. Might do a day trip or two to the coast. A trip to Stonington for an order of fried clams at Fisherman's Friend restaurant sounds pretty good. All of a sudden I've got a lot more to do than I'd thought!

 

[Bev Vincent]

My daughter's wedding.

 

[cat in a bag]

Our only definite plans so far are in July, we will go to Cheyenne Frontier Days, see the rodeo in the afternoon and Aerosmith that night. Camping in the mountains will be fit in a few times, I'm sure. We're still getting used to hubby's new schedule. Same hours, but it seems like his days off and days on are lopsided. (I am sure enjoying having more of a regular routine at home, though! It has helped my chore rotation immensely.) So the camping trips might be a little more tricky to plan, but we will figure it out!

 

[hossenpepper]

My summer plans are to repair the screening in my screen house so I can enjoy the outdoors bug-free and weed and mulch my flower gardens. Also need to remember to get a spare air horn just in case the bear decides to visit again. Might do a day trip or two to the coast. A trip to Stonington for an order of fried clams at Fisherman's Friend restaurant sounds pretty good. All of a sudden I've got a lot more to do than I'd thought!

Ohhhhh.... yummy. I am jealous!!!!! You KNOW how much I love Fisherman's Friend. Try that chowdah!!! Plus Stonington is a cool town. One of my favorite pics is the one I took with me mimicking Godzilla in that weird little mini village across the street from FF. I also got to see albatross up close for the first time in my life. They are so HUGE.

Sigh, I want ot come visit Bangor again so much. I really loved it up there even besides the Kon. Maine is just an awesome place in the summertime.

 

[Moderator]

Ohhhhh.... yummy. I am jealous!!!!! You KNOW how much I love Fisherman's Friend. Try that chowdah!!! Plus Stonington is a cool town. One of my favorite pics is the one I took with me mimicking Godzilla in that weird little mini village across the street from FF. I also got to see albatross up close for the first time in my life. They are so HUGE.

Sigh, I want ot come visit Bangor again so much. I really loved it up there even besides the Kon. Maine is just an awesome place in the summertime.

I'll have a cup of chowdah as an appetizer just for you.

 

[hossenpepper]

I'll have a cup of chowdah as an appetizer just for you.

Best I've ever had. But then again, I can't claim to have the same level of experience as you do with it. But Stephen, who is a "chowdah snob", still talks about it, too.

 

[Moderator]

Best I've ever had. But then again, I can't claim to have the same level of experience as you do with it. But Stephen, who is a "chowdah snob", still talks about it, too.

You may not have heard of it to know to check it out as they don't advertise, but there is also a huge water lily pond that I like to check out when I'm down in that area. You have to be there at certain times of the day in order to catch it when the lilies are open so don't always manage to get there at its peak. That reminds me that one of my summer missions is to get more pictures of lighthouses that I can use in my craft projects.