Summer Days

Summer!    

 Here is this week's Tuesday 4.      Are you joining in too? Why not? Come on, get with it friends!

Hey!   Welcome back to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 where we ask just 4 questions each week to give you something to blog about, something to think about and a reason to visit other blogs!

♫Summer time and the living is easy says the song.  So how is summer going for you? Let's talk about it.....

1. How has summer been so far?  Has it been easy or hard or are things moving along as usual?  Is the weather getting you down or are you enjoying it so far?

So far it's been really nice.  Weather was cool, then warmed up a bit but only into the high 80s low 90's so not so bad at all. Here on the ocean side of the state it is much cooler than inland.    No, the weather isn't getting me down. It's been lifting me up really.

2. What have you been doing this summer?   Even the little mundane things count.

I've been spending a lot of time with the kids and the fish.  In summer the fish eat 3 times a day so I am out feeding my little guys and enjoying them a lot.   They are very sociable and curious.   Spending time with the Famous Anonymous and the Little has been great.  We like a lot of the same things actually and have lots to talk about.   Monday, the Famous Anonymous had hand surgery.  While helping a friend move, she was cut on her hand very badly and it severed the tendon leading to the middle finger.  So yesterday she had emergency surgery and now it's wait and see if it's repaired. 

I bought hanging pots of flowers and little flags for the garden, a no soliciting sign, more garden solar lights, and a no parking in front of the mailbox sign since people keep doing that. It's illegal but they don't seem to realize that.

3. What are you going to do?   Any plans? What interests you this summer?   I plan to keep enjoying the summertime and all it has to offer.   My plans always center on people.  I love to entertain and have people over.  So I will try to do that often.    Maybe Blue Claws baseball.. maybe rodeo (NJ has the oldest continual pro rodeo in the USA).   

4. It's been hot in most of the country  How are you weathering the heat ?  What are your ideas for staying cool in the hottest weather of summer

In the hottest weather you stay a bit inactive.  You turn on fans, drink cold  fluids, go in the water, hose yourself down, sit in a kiddy pool and determine to enjoy what the weather brings.     In the 1800's people had fans that you would wind up with a key. Ceiling fans on the porch and in the inside of the house were wind up and helped them stay cooler.

When I was a little girl a butcher shop in my town had wind up fans on the ceiling and sawdust on the floor. Though they were very outdated at that time, they worked well.  On a full wind-up they went pretty fast.