“I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.”
Today is another delight. The sun is bright. There is no humidity and a slight breeze keeps the day cool. It is only 69˚ right now and won’t get any higher than 74˚. The low for the tonight will be 59˚. I will definitely have to find a blanket. Last night was chilly. I think the dogs huddled against me hoping to keep themselves warm. They woke up early so, consequently, did I. Now, keep in mind, early is a relative term. For me it was 9:45, but it was 3:30 when I went to bed. I just wasn’t tired until then.
I did a bit of cleaning yesterday. All of downstairs got vacuumed, and the den got polished and cleaned. Today I will wash the kitchen and hall floors. The kitchen is tile while the floor is wood. From the den to the back door is always the route the dogs take and is always where I find muddy paw prints and lot of balls of fur.
The dogs are having their morning naps. I almost want to keep jostling them awake in a weird sort of quid pro quo, but I’ll take the high road. I may also take a nap today, my Saturday nap just to distinguish it from my other naps, but it has been a while since I’ve napped.
When I was a kid, I would loved today’s weather. It calls for a long bike ride. I would have packed a lunch, and my mother, knowing I’d be gone most of the day, would usually would give me a nickel for a drink or a candy bar. I opted for the candy bar. Choking down my lunch was worth it. Besides, I knew where every bubbler in town was. My lunch was always bologna, from the roll you had to cut into slices, on white bread which is all my mother ever bought. I added cookies, usually Oreos which I could find in the full larder as my mother grocery shopped on Fridays. I’d throw my brown bag lunch into the bike basket and take off for most of the day. Most times I was by myself. I never minded but rather liked it as I could take a break when I wanted and could bike any route in town.
Now, what did I buy with my nickel? A corner store not so far away from where I lived always had Milky Way and Three Musketeers bars in the freezer section. I usually bought the Milky Way. I remember it broke off in chunks when I bit it. The chunks took a while to chew. That was the best part of a frozen Milky Way: how long it took to eat. I would’ve paid even a dime for such a delicacy, for such a treasure.
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July 31, 2021 at 1:05 pm
Hi Kat,
I would love to have the weather you’re having. Yesterday we hit the century mark and today should be a little hotter. It’s still humid which makes it feel like 105° or more. We had a break in July with lower than average temperatures and more precipitation. August is paying us back with a more typical Texas heatwave.
When I was a kid my mother packed the same lunch for my cycling adventures or school lunch. Bologna on white bread with French’s yellow mustard must have been a 1950s kid’s lunch staple. Sometimes she would throw in a bag of Frito’s corn chips. I never saw a store that offered frozen candy bars. My wife likes them frozen, but I prefer the soft inside and gooey caramel of a room temperature Milkyway bar. Dallas was the hometown of the Southland Corporation where the 7-11 convience stores were founded. The name explained their original hours of operation. That’s where we usually stopped for a soda or a candy bar. Unfortunately, the Thompson family no longer runs nor operates the company.
July 31, 2021 at 2:11 pm
Hi Bob,
You would really love my weather. The window behind me is open, and nice cool air is coming through. It is a lower temperature than this morning, down to 73˚. We haven’t yet hit 90˚ this summer though Boston has already had 3 heat waves. The breeze is stronger now.
I always had great school lunches. One of my friends always wanted to trade. Nope, no trades. On Fridays, when we couldn’t have meat, we usually had tuna sandwiches or even once in a while crab meat. The peanut butter and jelly sandwiches some kids had looked gross by lunch time. The jelly usually seeped through the bread. Peanut butter and marshmallow was just fine.
I like Milky Way unfrozen as well, but in summer, frozen is wonderful,
July 31, 2021 at 5:21 pm
I don’t know why I never liked peanut butter with jelly. Separately, okay but not together. I still eat a package of peanut butter on small Ritz crackers every day at work for breakfast. I love Ritz crackers plain as well.
July 31, 2021 at 5:33 pm
I’m also a Ritz fan. I like them and Club Crackers which are quite similar to Ritz.
I would eat PB &J for a snack or a lunch at home but never in school. When I travel, I bring little snack packages like your Ritz package mostly for at night as treats while I’m reading.
July 31, 2021 at 5:52 pm
Yes, club crackers are my next choice. I don’t take the entire box of packages of the pb abd Ritz crackers to work because I lack snack self control. 🙂 My company sent me a nice desktop, bowl of M&Ms in the company colors with a tight fitting lid. It was a reward for a being part of a project I was part of the team. My wife refills it with plain M&Ms and I have to force myself to not eat half the bowl full on the first night while reading in my office. I have to hide my treats or I would be as big as a house and have type II diabetes. 😦
July 31, 2021 at 6:00 pm
I love M&M’s but my weakness is Jelly Belly beans. They taste like the real thing. My Christmas my mother gave me a Jelly Belly bank which is exactly like the ones for gumboils, even to needing money to twist the knob.
July 31, 2021 at 7:01 pm
I love Jelly Belly bit haven’t had them in a long time. I think since the Reagan Administration. He was fond of them and made them popular.
July 31, 2021 at 10:24 pm
I haven’t ordered them in a while simply because I’d eat them probably in a couple of sittings.
August 1, 2021 at 11:31 am
Very windy here today and even though it did reach 68 it still has felt rather chilly. I don’t mind since it hasn’t rained today.
Yesterday it poured down almost all day so the only thing I did besides going to the grocery store was to bake a bread, the rest of the day we spent mostly napping in front of the tv 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
August 1, 2021 at 9:08 pm
Hi Christer,
We haven’t got much rain all summer. I want more!! I get that way, wanting to do nothing but enjoy and nap, but yesterday I cleaned downstairs. I did feel accomplished.
I just closed the window behind me. It is a chilly night