Friday five: Summer

[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.

Comments

[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.

[branchandroot]

*laughs* Yeah, I think this might have been easier for me to do in winter.

[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.

[branchandroot]

I think that's a perfectly reasonable stipulation! This is assuredly as far south as I'm getting, and while I like our jobs I could really do with a less beastly climate.

[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.

[branchandroot]

Seriously! Summer turns me into a puddle of sloth.

[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.

[branchandroot]

*wry* Yeah, I'm not that fond of it either way, but there's just something especially draining about muggy.

[stormyseasons]

heeee....

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

[branchandroot]

I know if I'd grown up in a tropical zone I'd feel differently, but me and summer are so totally not best friends.

[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.

[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.

[branchandroot]

I mean, when I was a kid, and it meant a long break from school, there was some excuse. But now? Give me spring and fall.

[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.

[branchandroot]

*laughs* I know if I were a parent I'd be /very/ grateful for a change in the school year.