It's hard to say when exactly summer begins or ends round these parts. It has been above 80 for a total of maybe almost 3 out of the past 11 weeks. It was too cold to go swimming for the entire month of August. It didn't start to get warm enough to swim until the end of June. I wore long pants and sweaters for a larger part of the season. School started this week (meaning no more aunts), September snuck in, and I even saw some Maples down town changing colors. I thought I'd have to start planning Halloween costumes around snow suits and boots. When Nolan and I paint, I always forget to add a sun to my landscapes because I have seen it so infrequently that I sometimes don't remember that it
is still out there somewhere, warming up some (far away) part of the earth. Now, don't assume that I'm complaining. Really, I have enjoyed my summer like I haven't enjoyed a summer in six years (to be exact). But, cool and rainy was the way that it was and having been that way, the kiddie pool sat sadly in the back yard, unused and unloved, for a majority of the summer. I was beginning to contemplate deflating the poor thing and folding it up for winter storage. But then.....
A uncommon event transpired. The sun came out and dried up all the rain. It happened Thursday, the second day of school. I nearly peed my pants. So we broke out the swim suits one more time and jumped in the kiddie pool. Here follows some pictures from our last (probably) Summer Shebang. For the record, Gerret did hop in, but I couldn't take a picture and keep him from eating the floating leaves at the same time, Nolan prefers riding the rim of the pool, and I deemed it only warm enough to dip my feet
in.
in.
