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branchandroot: sunny medow of poppies (summer meadow)
[personal profile] branchandroot
*wry* Some interesting answers to this one.
  1. What do you love about Summer?
    Who said I love summer? Summer is my bane and doom! I am not made to bake, grill, or swelter, and ever since we moved a state south summer has lost most of its charm for me. I used to like warm weather and the sun through the leaves and going to the lake (and the Lake), but that was when I lived in a reasonable climate.

  2. How many times have you had a fun summer?
    Well, there are often fun things to do, as long as one remembers the sunscreen and bug spray and has access to shade. The most enduring example is probably the Ann Arbor Art Fair, which is annual. I've always been fond of paddle boating too, and spotting for the water skiers.

  3. What do you most like to do during summer time?
    Stay indoors where it's a little cooler. I try to do most of my heavy garden work in the spring and fall so I don't have to go die of heat stroke. Which is not entirely an exaggeration, I actually got heat stroke doing garden work a few years back.

  4. Do you like the place where you live?
    Not as well as I like the place where I used to live, which was about four hours north, and had a lot more north to resort to at need.

  5. If given a chance, do you want to live in a tropical country?
    That would be a big En Oh. I would be hesitant even to visit for very long. I am a northern girl and weak against heat.

Date: 2010-07-02 07:00 pm (UTC)
dancing_serpent: (Photos - Scotland - Taransay)
From: [personal profile] dancing_serpent
I am a northern girl and weak against heat.
Hah, same here. *high five*

I had a hard time finding at least something I love about summer. Took me a while.

Date: 2010-07-02 08:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] edenfalling
I am so with you, except that I now live north of where I grew up, and it is so much less awful -- Ithaca averages two to four utterly miserable weeks each summer, whereas New Jersey... well, yeah. I have long maintained that anyone who wants to make me move anywhere south of Philadelphia would have to pay me several million dollar per year to compensate for the summers. :-)

Lakes are the best part of summer.

Date: 2010-07-02 09:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wingblossom
Summer is my bane and doom! I am not made to bake, grill, or swelter, and ever since we moved a state south summer has lost most of its charm for me.

I completely understand what you mean. Mild summers are nice, but extreme heat makes me want to stay inside the whole day. On second thought, it's not so much heat that bothers me as humidity.

Date: 2010-07-02 10:37 pm (UTC)
seagull2eagle: (volcano - nature rules)
From: [personal profile] seagull2eagle
LOL! You've got a good point about summer in humid-land. Our western summers are hot but dry heat so they're a lot more tolerable than the eastern/southern ones. I love heat and hot a lot more than I like cold and freezing, but I gotta say, I die in humidity.

Date: 2010-07-03 01:02 am (UTC)
stormyseasons: (Default)
From: [personal profile] stormyseasons
heeee....

where I live, it's always muggy and warm in comparison.

Date: 2010-07-03 02:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] stormyseasons
True enough, true enough. Even the ones who grow up in a tropical zone sometimes go looking for wintry countries just to get away from the heat.

Date: 2010-07-04 04:40 am (UTC)
darkemeralds: Photo of Downtown Portland, Oregon USA in twilight (Portland)
From: [personal profile] darkemeralds
I'm with you 100%. It's so annoying, this assumption that summer is the best season for everyone no matter what. The thing I love best about summer is when it ends.

Date: 2010-07-04 10:48 pm (UTC)
darkemeralds: A round magical sigil of mysterious meaning, in bright colors with black outlines. A pen nib is suggested by the intersection of the cryptic forms. (Default)
From: [personal profile] darkemeralds
Exactly! And in the US at least, the only reason it means a long break from school is because some archaic agriculture-based economic considerations were in place when the concept of public education was being formalized.

I don't know a parent of school-age kids who wouldn't be grateful to have year-round school with scattered vacations.

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