Ready for Summer

It’s that time of year that some dread, but others like myself look forward to each year, SUMMER!! Yes, summer is my favorite season, and I like a really hot summer.

I am not the biggest fan of sweating my youknow-what off but I enjoy what only summer can provide, which is a multitude of blissful feelings and memories. Blissful, like being outside on a day that is 100-plus and that first moment of walking into a 70-degree, ice-cold house or doing yard work in those melting temperatures and jumping in a pool for a dip or a cold shower followed by a well-deserved ice-cold beer in an icecold mug kept in a freezer.

How about the Fourth of July? Is there a better holiday? Maybe, but not for me. BBQ, friends, maybe a beer and fireworks; it’s a recipe for amazing memories. Trips to the lake hit just a little better in summer than any other time of year. Trips to the DQ? Yes, please, always better in the summer. Cherry Lime-Aides at Sonic? Yes there will be plenty of those to be had.

Summers in Texas are not for the faint of heart and must be planned carefully. We Texans take great pride in everything being bigger and more extreme in Texas; Texans are known for their toughness, and hot summers help produce some tough Texans.

Crack of dawn, slight mugginess in the air, already the heat of the day is creeping in, fishing gear, chairs and the all-important cooler with cold beverages hastily piled in the back of the pick-up and we are off to the lake to do what us country folk love to do, fish. This lasts till almost noon, at which time its time to pile everything back in the back of the pick-up and head home for some and for those lucky enough, to DQ for a blizzard.

What are some of your favorite summer rituals? What do you look back with fondness during those summer months of your youth?

This is Will B saying, see yah at the DQ for a blizzard and a whopper of a fish story.