Summer

What defines summer for you? Is it lazing outside reading a book in the shade? Picking onions and jalapenos and adding it to the ingredients for lunch? Relaxing on a deck with family while the little ones run around the yard screaming and wearing glow sticks on their wrists? Is it sharing memories with good friends while treading water in their backyard pool? Getting a call from a friend who reminds you of who you used to be? Maybe summer is taking a new road on your motorcycle and seeing where it ends up; content to get lost and find home again. Picking that first tomato off the plant, rubbing the dust off on your pants and biting into that home grown tomato taste? Is it the smell of water drying a concrete sidewalk on a hot day? Or the smell of freshly cut grass? Is summer that soggy feeling of your blue jeans around your legs right before a good rain? Or maybe it's that burning itch of poison ivy on your ankles (AGAIN)! Maybe summer is sitting outside at an outdoor concert listening to music as the sun goes down. What ever summer may be for you, I hope you are getting your fill. It's August already. Summer won't last much longer.