I've always been a summer girl. My opinion is changing.
We don't have a functioning cooling system in our house, and without it, the inside is a baking tin can. When we put water in the cooler, all it does is add humidity to the factor, and that makes it more of a boiling tin can than anything.
We finally got a window unit AC from my parents' secondhand shop...only to find out that none of our windows are wide enough to support it. So what do we do? Put it on a TV tray table, but that makes it leak water all over the floor. So we suffer through with fans and escapes to places with AC. (Maybe that's why our electric bill last month was only $34?)
So I definitely won't miss summer's heat. (Especially after THIS summer's heat!)
..and I won't miss the mosquitoes. I got so many bites this year, I thought my legs were never going to stop itching.
Oh, and this is the first year in thirteen that I have gotten stung by something. I think this one was a wasp. I couldn't see it. It was caught in the breeze, came flying up over grandma's garden shed and landed on my nose, then stung me. I do not recommend getting stung on the nose. It hurts. There's swelling. And involuntary crying. Dogs tend to look at you funny for the first little while after it happens.
In fact, everyone but grandma has gotten stung this year. Mom twice, dad once, Jake once, me once, and even Jake's brother has gotten stung this year. They're not the worst I've ever seen them, but they are pretty bad.
I will miss the golden hour most of all. Those wonderful times when the sun rises early and sets late, and produces beautiful golden light that fades fast. That light that photographers always strive to shoot portraits in. It's quite amazing, and summer has the best golden hours.
I'll miss the warm nights, too, and the dynamic skies. But most of all, those golden hours.
Via Flickr:
This summer has taught me a lot of things.
The first thing it has taught me is to hate it. (See blog post for more on this.)
..but, besides the amazing nights, early morning and late night light, I will miss the extended golden hours.