Sunday Stealing

June 29, 2013

I didn't check this for any grammar or spelling.  It's really 12:03 and I've been awake a long, long time!
summertime meme
Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme.
Let's go!!!

This week's questions come from Academic Cog and she wrote the questions herself because she hadn't seen a summer meme in a long time.

1.) What first tells you that Summer is here?  Summer arrives for me in mid June, and school is out for three months.  We don't actually have seasons in So Cal, which is especially true for San Diego.  We have what is called  a Wet and a Dry, like in Australia.  I know this because I used to spend up to six months at a time at my grandparents farm in the Midwest,until I was five years old, and know what winter and Fall are like in the real world.. 

2.) Name your five favorite distinctively Summer habits or customs.  Sandals, shorts, wetting down my clothes to stay cool on days when it's a hundred degrees outside, going down to the beach to stay cool, getting up early to make food to eat, like potato or pasta salads and stick them into the fridge.

3.) What is your favorite smell of Summer?  The Ocean at Sunset Cliffs.

4.) What is your favorite taste of Summer?  I love potato salad.

5.) Favorite Summer memory?  I love the one summer we took our kids to Sequoia and King's Canyon - before it was ruined by clear cutting- and spent three weeks there.

6.) Extreme heat or extreme cold? Which would you choose and why?  I would choose either one if I could live in an earth sheltered home 15 feet under the surface.  The choice between too extremes is hardly any choice at all, frankly.

7.) What books do you plan to read for the season?  The rest of Jane Smiley's newest ones, and maybe a new Annie Proulz or two.  I also want to read the books I've left behind this Fall and Winter - the ones in the side bar.

8.) What is your favorite part of summer? 
I like being able to eat cooler foods.  I like going down to get fish and chips at Point Loma Seafoods and not have to sit outside freezing my buns off.


9.) What's your favorite quintessentially summer food? As  I said, Potato salad,  Cold cereals, Salads of any kind, and fried fish.  Least favorite?  I really don't like coleslaw all that much unless it's Pinot Grigeo slaw.

10.) Best beverage to beat the summer heat:  Iced tea, Sweet!  I make mine in a quart mason jar in the fridge from two Tetley tea bags, two Earl or Lady greys, all of it decaf- and one lemon ginger tea bag.  Yummy stuff!

11.) Least favorite/most annoying thing related to summer?  The extreme heat.  I don't like it.  Also, I find not being able to get into or out of  La Jolla in summer.  Too crowded.

12.) Pick one: the lake /the beach.  Beach.  I am a sea creature.  I love to watch it and smell the air coming off the surf and be in it if I can be.

13.) Most amusing summer vacation trip you've ever taken?  As a kid we never went anywhere at all, the reason being we had no money, mostly.   One year I did get to go see my Colorado cousins though and that was fun.  All the kids rode bundled up in the bed of the pickup and dad and two uncles rode in the cab.  We got there in 18 hours, flying very low.  It surely was cold in Steamboat Springs, once a tiny Rocky Mountain town, even though it was summertime.  

14.) Most ridiculous/cringe-inducing/blush-provoking summer outfit you have seen? (Bonus points if you yourself were wearing it!)   I was in Venice one year - the one by Santa Monica, not Italy - and a man skated by wearing nothing but a purple thong.  He smiled at me,  I blushed at him, and he was thoroughly happy about it.

15.) Your absolute dream summer afternoon would be to be at Agate Beach with my hubby and kids and Wolfie.

16.) If you could go anywhere on summer vacation where would you go?  Santa Cruz.  There's no other place on earth like it, with the possible exception of Torrey Pines Preserve.  In Santa Cruz, I'd go watch the break off the cliffs, and then we'd all go have something to eat at Seabright Brewery.  Yum!