Archive for summer
Breakfasting in the untamed outdoors
In theory I am an open-windows kind of girl. I love falling asleep next to one, waking up next to one, going about my day feeling the cross breeze throughout the house… if it were practical, I would live with the windows wide open all day, every day throughout the summer. In practice, though, it [...]
continue reading "Breakfasting in the untamed outdoors"Colors of home
Eren’s post on the colors of Coastal Maine struck a chord with me. With every year I fall more and more in love with the colors of the Jersey Shore. The sandy beiges, the blues of the sea and sky… Yummy. But I remember last May, after spending five days in Ocean City, I was [...]
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School let out for the summer a week ago today. Sometimes I think we’ve done nothing in that time but find more and more ways to get wet. Hose, lake, pool, sprinkler. I haven’t been posting much, lest my keyboard get soaked
continue reading "Wet"Strawberry-Lemonade Smoothies 2.0
I originally posted about these slushy, delicious fruity drinks back in 2007. Since then, I’ve made a few tiny changes (and taken some much nicer pictures, if we’re being honest here) and thought it was worth an update. We make these smoothies every year when the weather turns hot. They’re like Summer in a Cup! [...]
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I think I’ve formed an unnatural attachment to our Summer napkins. I don’t know if it’s the unseasonably hot weather of the past week, the eager anticipation of the summer after a particularly cold and wet winter, or just me being crazy, but I’ve been daydreaming again. I switch out our cloth kitchen napkins every [...]
continue reading "Ode to Elsie’s Kitchen"Joy in the daydream
Skirt weather has arrived, and oh, how I have missed it! I didn’t realize quite how much until I spent yesterday twirling around in my favorite a-line. Skirt-wearing brings a sort of effervescence with it that I find hard to capture in other ways. I suppose it’s just that it makes me feel “girly,” which [...]
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Several times in the last few days I’ve said “this month,” when referring to things we’d actually done in August. I couldn’t seem to wrap my brain around it being September yet. I mean, really. September? Already? Hmmm. Maybe so… We’ve got (slightly hail-damaged) Honeycrisp apples, fresh off the tree. I made applesauce today. Tomorrow, [...]
continue reading "September after all"Oh, August
Oh, August. What am I going to with you? Every year it’s the same thing: I see that precious summertime is slipping away and I panic. During the month of July I pass my afternoons quietly lounging in the back yard with the kids and forgetting the art of budgeting my time. I let my [...]
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I don’t know why it took me so long to do a little Summer entertaining, but I suspect it won’t be so long before I do it again.
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We’ve had such odd weather since the kids have been out of school. So much rain and cool temperatures, that it has not felt like our usual summers have. We’ve spent a lot more time in front of computer screens than I like to admit, which is why today, when the sun was streaming down [...]
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