It gets in my head as the weather turns nice!

omg takes me back

We're full time RV'ers, 12 years in August.

Ole Blue Eyes.

One year, that song was on the radio every time the driver came to pick me up and it always reminds me of day camp. What a load of fun that was every single day.

That day camp is still in business after all these years. A couple of decades ago, they moved out to larger grounds in a different town.

Ah, it wasn't a good movie, but it sure brings back my salad days!!

Eh, Tom shanks movies were just fun back then.

Can't remember whether I enjoyed it better stoned or tripping. Everytime I hear this song memories come flooding back.

For me, summer is hot, sweaty, unpleasant, and way too long. It's not like when I was a kid, and got three months off to do whatever I wanted. It's a slog.

I can't wait for winter. The kind of days I used to hate when my family moved to the Northwest, cold, gray, rainy, I love now. Can't wait for the those days again.

This song was a soundtrack for the time, one of many. I was 20 and headed off to Berkeley for Cal in January 1974. Lived in a camp trailer on a 54 acres parcel on a Wild and Scenic River that was a CCC camp in the 1930s. We both worked for the US Forest Service. Had a 1956 Willy's jeep. Lived with my first serious love. We went to Berkeley and San Francisco to look for a place to live and saw the Dead at Winterland.

And that one does for me for sure.

Another one for me is Jack Straw. Aside from the explicit 4th of July reference to the heat and the clouds, the way it begins in such a gentle way just reminds me of sunshine and shadows loping across the American plains. Or something….

5 to 1 Backside of the Waiting for the sun album. I was in Germany in the 60's and a guy told me the Doors weren't radical enough. I think this tune gets the point across.

for a mellow song,
and Celebration, by Kool & The Gang, for an upbeat song.

Pretend there's the gif of a woman spitting out her coffee due to laughing in this response.

Thanks a gazillion, True!

I'm glad we're together again. Now, wipe that coffee off your chin!

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood!

I remember Mr. Rodgers teaching me how to make peanut butter.


I didn't know that he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to keep his program from being defunded up until a few years ago. In fact, I most likely learned that fact on DU.

and said, "Hey Niagara, bust out the peanuts because we're going to make peanut butter!"

Like that?

a Mr. Rogers episode, True Dough. If I remember correctly he took his audience on a field trip to a peanut butter manufacturing plant.

At least I think it Mr. Rogers who did that for us youngins! Every once in awhile he would take us on a televised "field trip".

I wished that he would have showed up at my house! lol


P.S. I'm getting much worse on my typos so please bear with me.

I make a fair share of my own.

Imagine what Mr. Rogers would think of me if I went around chastising others for their typing mistakes! I'd be disowned!

I'm more tired than normal and I'm still not sleeping well. I haven't had time or energy to check out new mattresses at the mattress stores, so maybe I can get to it for the July 4th weekend.

I also had a change with work clients and work schedule on top of not being able to sleep. And any work schedule change messes with my sleep schedule as well.

I'm just asking for people to bear with me, I didn't particular mean you, True. lol

Every year I ask my daughter "why couldn't you have a baby in November like I did? I would not go to Phoenix in August if my grandaughter's birthday wasn't Aug 5

Because so many more people die in the summer.

Frightening, considering that's with all the snowbirds gone.

But, between the unhoused population, people in poverty without a/c, etc., the deaths soar.

for a specifically summer theme, I'd have to tie it with " Sumnmer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful.

sites to see, Also liked Ventura Highway.

I have 3 backups for you. You're good, whathehell.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_in_the_City_(song)



https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-lovin-spoonful/summer-in-the-city



https://nysmusic.com/2025/06/13/new-york-series-the-lovin-spoonful-summer-in-the-city/

Thanks for the links, Niagara. You're good too.

And thank you!

There are so many songs I love from that era, and a couple I really hated (like 'Whiter Shade of Pale', for instance) even though they were hugely popular.

First love.

To November

Chicago

Years ago I had this album on a cassette that I kept in my car so I could listen on warm summery days. Once I came out of work on the first nice day of the year to find that the sun had melted the cassette! 🤣
Seemed appropriate!

I think it's pretty self-explanatory...

Sunshine… Hallelujah
Warmth… Hallelujah
Seeds sprout… Hallelujah
Relax outside in comfortable chairs and cloud watch …. Hallelujah
Take a nap in the middle of the deserted lake in the kayak… Hallelujah
Sun ripened and still warm from the field strawberries… Hallelujah
The smell of fresh cut hay or grass depending where you live… Hallelujah
Salad made from your garden… Hallelujah
Barefoot walks on fresh dewed grass in the morning… Hallelujah

and The boys of summer by Don Henley....

And Movin' Out. Unfortunately, they're happening at the same time

This very well could be the wettest June on record here. A coupled of weeks ago, we got the average June rainfall in one weekend, and were even asked to not do laundry, use dishwashers etc until the storm drains had cleared. I've never heard an alert like that before.

And today's the last day, clearing the bits and bobs that remain and it's like the inside of a car wash out there. Thankfully, I had lovely weather for the actual move.

As a beach boy, we listened to way too much Buffet. Then, in high school, I learned that my drama teacher went to college with him.

That music was the background of my youth. Everyone had those albums.

(I would have said 'Why Don't We Get Drunk', but that one did not come into play until later on. )

From his modern opera "Porgy and Bess."