Ahhh summer!

Fireflies and the moon, packing 5 kids and the parents in the old station
wagon and heading to the nearest swimming hole, cookouts every weekend, weeding the garden, mowing the stupid lawn, mucking out the cows and the chickens, sneaking cigarettes when we mucked out cause who could smell them with all that manure?

Going to our family's summer cabin on the island every summer after we bought it, swimming in the crystal clear lake, laying on the granite slabs at the point, floating around in the boat at night laying on our backs and watching the stars, waking up to the smell of the cabin and my mom putting the old tin coffeepot on the woodstove and the smell of coffee, pancakes and woodsmoke, picking buckets of blueberries and raspberries, fishing every day cause we had to eat, reading the old books that came with the cabin by the old Aladdin lamp and the smell of those books and the kerosene, pine needles and teaberries...

I can see it all and I remember all the smells, mildew when it rained for weeks and not being able to dry anything...oh wait...that's now...LMAO!