Flypaper thoughts Friday night in August editon

• Nova Scotia is a tricky place
• The summers are so incredible
• The sky and air clear and bright and sharp
• So powerful it makes you forget all the majority months
• The ones that are cold and wet and grey
• But you know what is the best thing about a tough climate?
• People are absolutely delighted when it's summer
• Everyone is out 
• Everyone walks around like it's their birthday
• Whenever I travel I am amazed that folks in sunny places are wasting it
• The church down the street is selling ice cream cones
• $2 and the proceeds going to the poor in Cuba
• At 2-3 scoops for kids not sure of how much they are sending out
• Apart from right messages
• Much of my summer has been spent with the kids
• Treading water at the bottom of water slides
• You are doing pretty good for an elderly grandmother they say
• OK you are sort of elderly
• Breaking up fights in the back seat
• I mean it, just one more time and that's it
• No idea what it is
• But I mean it
• Crinkle that plastic bottle one more time and I am stopping this car
• "It wasn't me"
• Letting anyone cook anything in my kitchen 
• Because I can take the mess
• And believe you have to learn to chop sometime
• They know where the band aids are
• Their mom and uncles survived this system
• Leaving behind wet bathing suits
• Hearing a hundred sentences start with "It's not my fault."
• Or "she made me do it"
• So hot that in the evening I walk Daisy and drag the dog stroller beside me
• She only goes in one direction and hasn't figured the we have to walk back part
• That's what the stroller is for on hot nights
• You have to respect someone who at 16 pounds can plant her paws on a sidewalk 
• Like she is concrete herself
• And won't move
• As big as I am and as small as she is
• So I just keep going in the direction she wants 
• Out of respect
• And wheel her home when she is tired
• Sewing odd ball projects
• Summer nightgowns
• Bags with zippers
• A hat for my big head
• One size does not fit all
• Ever
• The return of the skort was a good idea
• Now that's a word
• Makes you kind of feel like putting rollers in your hair
• Summer wouldn't be this sweet if it lasted
• Which is really all you need to know about being alive