{"id":2431,"date":"2013-06-22T20:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2017-06-22T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:50:42","slug":"summer-list-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"The Summer List for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_5421\"<\/a>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for my annual summer list, the list I make every summer of things I want to make a point to do during the course of the summer. My lists for 2011<\/a> and for 2012<\/a> have included everything from pitchers of pink lemonade to full days spent on a tube in the Atlantic. Each year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new list is meant to supplement the old lists; in fact, I still also try to accomplish as many things on the old lists each summer as possible. Without further ado then, here are my new must-dos for the summer of 2013.<\/p>\n

1. Opera in the Backyard<\/p>\n

Some day, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to grab a blanket, spread out on my lawn, and listen to opera music. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a huge opera fan, but I do enjoy it from time to time. This must-do will be somewhat challenged by my latest random fear, that while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m lying there, eyes closed, an otter will come up from the salt marsh and accidentally walk across my face. You know, because I know so many people who have had that happen to them. Seriously, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how that image came to mind, but now that it has, this will prove a challenge, because lying there waiting for the face-crossing will clearly defeat the whole purpose of the activity. Ultimately, I<\/del> LCB may have to pitch a tent with very secure zippers in our yard to bring this one to fruition.<\/p>\n

2. Waffle Cones<\/p>\n

This one has two parts.<\/p>\n

I had my first waffle cone as a child in Estes Park, Colorado, lo these many years ago. As an adult, most of my ice cream consumption takes place at home, and is served in a bowl. However, in my first Summer List I mentioned that I like to buy a pack of cones once a summer as a splurge. Lately, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been noticing these packs of waffle cones in the grocery stores, so I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to try one of those packs as a variation.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I am a connoisseur of Wendy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chocolate Frosties. To give this relationship some quantitative perspective using an oft-wished-for hypothetical, if someone offered me a free frosty every day for the rest of my life, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d take it. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be ecstatic. Excepting days where I was struck by the bubonic plague or some mutated version of the bird flu, I would not want to share my free daily frosty with my offspring or the love of my life. I might do it under some weird sense of obligation or if someone threw the golden rule all up in my face or whatever. But I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be all excited about it or anything.<\/p>\n

Anyway, all that is to say that I want to try the new Wendy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s waffle cone frosties this summer.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the small things that lead to big hips<\/del>, folks.<\/p>\n

Interesting trivia here: The Wendy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frosty has its own Facebook fan page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. A Lantern<\/p>\n

I want to walk around my yard with at night with a lantern.<\/p>\n

You heard me correctly.<\/p>\n

Somehow, I have this image of myself walking barefoot at night, with a long white dress trailing behind me in the breeze, going about my business throughout the yard. Since we have virtually no yard and since I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t garden, in truth I really have no legitimate business there. But I could pretend<\/i>. It just sounds so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, interesting<\/i>, so different from my life now. It sounds like I stepped fresh from the pages of a literary work written during the Romantic period, minus the crazy woman locked up in the attic who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll at any moment burn down the house, or dying on the boat ride to Camelot, or any other such inconveniences.<\/p>\n

Never mind that my yard quickly becomes marsh, a place I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never venture in barefoot at night. Never mind that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a long white dress. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to walk across my little square of grass in my t-shirt and cutoffs, lantern in hand, and just pretend that my life has a mildly exotic quality to it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be kind of like drinking your Ensure Clinical Strength out of a wine glass or serving yourself your laxative on a silver platter, you know?<\/p>\n

4. Roll in the Sand<\/p>\n

My son, the one without inhibitions, loves to roll across the beach. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost a method of traveling with him. Watching him do it makes me want to give it a whirl. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my only problem. The beaches are really crowded during the summer, and this is after all a summer list, so completing it during the allotted time frame guarantees many witnesses.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how I feel about a great host of witnesses observing my beach roll. We shall see. Or should I say they shall?<\/p>\n

5. Make Homemade Granola<\/p>\n

Recently, one of my blog friends, Mia at Modern Mia Gardening<\/a>, shared a recipe for homemade granola on Facebook. This got me thinking. I love granola, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 99% sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never made my own before. (I say 99% because, whether because of age or three babies or both, the memory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not quite what it used to be. Many of y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying here.) This seems stupid on my part, so I aim to change it. Thanks, Mia!<\/p>\n

6. An Outdoor Foot Soak<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a long, long time since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve indulged in a foot soak. My last clear memory of one was when I was pregnant with my second child, and my toddler thought it was great fun to jump in the foot bath along with me and splash to the high heavens, thus erasing the relaxing aspect of the soak. However, the small people are, well, increasingly less small these days. The downside is this means food and clothing costs have gone up precipitously. The upside? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking none of them will immediately try to jump in my foot bath. Therefore, some night this summer, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to sit and watch the sunset over the marsh while soaking my feet.<\/p>\n

I always love hearing what your must-dos for summer are, so give me a holler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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