I am not a summer person which I think I have shared many, many times on this blog.
I am an autumn person and not in skin tone or fashion sense.
I like autumn. I like cozy days with a soft blanket and a warm cup of tea and the leaves on the trees a mix of pretty colors.
Okay, I like green on the trees too so I do like that part of summer.
I hate, however, the heat of summer.
If it could be 68 to 70 degrees (F) all summer long, I would be overwhelmingly happy about that.
All these temps in the mid-80s to mid-90s. (Today’s high is going to be 87! Yuck!)
No. Thank. You.
I am so ready for fall and I know my friend Erin at Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs, is too because she is already planning for our comfy, cozy movie watching that we like to start in October. She and I have also been trading memes and reels talking about how in our minds we are already watching the leaves change colors and sipping tea while reading a good book under a blanket.
Today I thought I’d share how I am trying to hold on to the cozy feeling of autumn, even though it isn’t autumn.
First, I turn the air conditioner up as high as I can without my husband complaining about it. Our air conditioners are portable so they don’t work as well as window air conditioning units, but they do a fairly good job and if they aren’t taking the heat out of the air, I sit right in front of it and soak up the cold.
The funny thing is that Little Miss started doing this the first day we had the AC on. Then she grabbed a blanket and pronounced that it was officially autumn. She and I are way too much alike.
After we get it as cold as we can (mainly in the living room because the AC isn’t strong enough to also cool down our kitchen), we click on the candle warmer so it kicks out a apple cinnamon flavor that makes us think of fall.
Then I make a cup of tea or cocoa and choose something cozy to watch – maybe even old shows or YouTube videos from autumn.
I pretend it is not sweltering outside for as long as I can and, whenever possible, I stay inside – since being outside in high heat makes me feel sick anyhow.
All this being said, I do like a couple of aspects of summer, as long as it is cool enough for me to enjoy it. I enjoy swimming with Little Miss and The Boy and watching fireworks.
I like to make s’mores, even though I only eat the chocolate.
I like fireflies, if I catch sight of them that is. I don’t see them like we used to anymore. I like that it is warm enough to go out and look up at the stars, which we can see at our house, thankfully. I love that our wild roses come out in summer, even though I can only enjoy them for a short time.
I love that fresh fruit is more plentiful in summer (especially watermelon).
I think that’s just about all I love about summer.
I tried. *shrug*
This past week Little Miss and I didn’t swim as much as we could have. One day we waited too long and it had cooled off too much. Another day Dad was out of treatment for the pool and we are 40 minutes away from the closet store that would have it so the pool was a bit green.
He used Clorox before the Fourth so we did go swimming on that day.
I didn’t take any photographs this past week but hopefully I will next week since The Husband is off of work. As usual, we don’t have any big travel plans but we will be taking some day trips and we will be going out for our anniversary, which is Saturday.
Here are a few photos from earlier this summer and past summers instead.
How was your week last week? Let me know in the comments.
After lunch and the visit to the lake, we headed to an apple orchard, where we intended to pick apples. I don’t know if it was the weather, the big meal, the slightly chilled breeze, or the relaxing view of the lake, but none of us were interested in walking among the trees to pick apples so we took the easy way out and bought some apples, pears, peach jam and seven homemade donuts at the orchard store instead. We also bought the children a caramel apple, since I think my son has had one in his entire 13 years and my daughter has never had one.
