Summer is basically over. What did you all plan to do this summer and how much of it did you actually get to do? I wanted to travel more. I went to Colorado a couple times and will be back in Seattle next week. I went to the beach and spent time with my family. I brewed some beer, rode my motorcycle (less than I wanted to) and worked a lot. I ran a bunch and did a 5K but missed the 10K I wanted to do this weekend. I drank a million gallons of beer and smoked a little bit. I chopped down a tree and I made a wedding album for my parents' 40th anniversary. I took a train to New York city and watched the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 3-2 in the last game between the two in the old Yankee stadium. I visited my Grandmother and I saw some old friends a couple times. I sat on my roof and watched a total eclipse. I wanted to go fishing but I never did. I feel like there are so many things I missed though. What about the rest of you guys? If you planned it better, what more would you have liked to do?
Your life is interesting. I literally did nothing. I'm glad it's over. I love fall. The changing leaves, the air, the bugs all die, I love it. I feel like summer was a good time when I was a kid, but as an adult, I don't get a break and I don't enjoy the heat. I would love it to be spring and fall back and forth all year.
Summer starts on March 1st and ends on November 31 on the Gulf Coast. December is "Fall", January is "Winter" and February is "Spring." The leaves do not turn colors, they simply fall off all at one time after the one "frost" that we get in January. I have been sunburned here in January. I Fish with my shirt off in January. So what did I do this summer? Well, I didn't fish like I usually do. I actually worked about 12 hours a day. I have plans for September and October to to fish, and maybe take a Cruise in December. That is assuming that Hurricane Gustav isn't the "Mother or all Hurricanes' like that idiot Nagin predicts.
Did we have a summer? Didn't feel like it, but archery season for deer is two weeks away. I live in New Hampshire and we'll probably have snow asshole deep to a twenty foot tall Indian again this year. And like most, I didn't get anywhere near as much done as I wanted to because of the monsoon season.
I hate summer -I hate the heat, flies, mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, sun burn, having to cut the grass all the time, feeling obligated to plant flowers and crap. also movies seem to suck in the summer animals breed like hell in the summer - and I see all the faces of kittens and puppies that get killed. I am ready for cold weather
One regret, due to my forgetfulness: I didn't get to see Lucy when she was at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Big drag. Had planned to go when I heard about it in the Spring, forgot about it over the summer, and didn't remember it until I was at the Leonardo DaVinci "Machines in Motion" exhibit here in town last weekend. I planned on going the last day of the exhibit (just this past Saturday, actually,) - couldn't get out of work, though. And, if I did manage to, I'd have missed my chance to go to Austin on Friday to pick up the Five-seveN. It's a damned pitiful shame, too. The Lucy skeleton is almost never loaned out to any other museums...
That sucks. I love the leaves when they change color and the smell of them rotting on the ground. And the smell of the furnace when you start it up for the first time of the season and decorating the house for fall and getting to wear long sleaves and use blankets again. I just don't like it to get any colder then 50 outside.
