Summer days

Around these parts summer has been virtually non existent.  While the rest of the country is pulling wet and sticky cotton off their sweaty chests and backs, drinking ice cold anythings, and b-lining it to the nearest air conditioned mall before the locks are off the entrance doors, we have been double layering, and ordering our morning coffees hot, not frapped. It has been cool at best, and down right miserable at worst.  Some days the sun teased us into thinking summer might finally be here, only to shy away again behind the usual rain clouds short hours later.

April showers lingered into May, June and parts of July.  But this weekend.  This weekend the sun shone in a cloudless sky all day long, and made you go digging through dusty closets for that single bathing suit you vaguely remember buying during one of last years end of summer sales.  Vitamin D in its most natural form poured out of the sky like warm golden honey and seeped into every pore.

We woke up these last two mornings and wolfed down breakfast, threw beach towels, toys, an extra change of clothes and water bottles into bags and headed down a few blocks to the beach.  By 9am we were set up behind a comfortable log and digging for crabs in the shallow pools of low tide.  We watched early morning swimmers make their way so far out you could just make out their bodies between ocean waves and bobbing sail boats.

Jakob set up shop with his buckets and shovels and spent a good hour digging holes, filling buckets and shoveling sand around. 

We met friends, built sand castles, drank cold drinks, and lathered on sun screen, and basked in the sheer brilliance of summer.

The usual rain clouds may creep over our city again very soon bringing with them wintery moods and glum faces, but for now, for today and yesterday, summer was glorious.