- 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
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