What’s Not To Love About Summer?

This week has made Hoosiers all over the state breathe a sigh of relief because summer truly must be near!  The Maker has  blessed us with five days of gorgeous weather! 

This has made me stop to consider the things I love most about summer, and since you all are kind enough to act as if you care about my silly rambling thoughts, I thought I should share my top ten summer joys with you:

1.  Sunshine.  Now who doesn’t love sunshine?  It’s amazing!  It’s light, strength, health…it’s SUN! 

2.  Blue skies.  Have you NOTICED how BLUE the skies have been this week?  Man!  I don’t think I’ve been so infatuated with the sky ever in my life.  The color has been simply amazing.  Just look at that sky!

3.  Warm breezes.  Is there anything as lovely as a warm breeze on your skin?  The feel of it makes my cares just melt away.

4.  Open windows.  What good is a warm breeze if you can’t fling open the windows and let it blow through the house?  (Note:  you should not attempt this if you have allergies…fair warning.)

5.  Songbirds.  I love song birds.  Warm breezes + open windows +  song birds = happy Sandy.  Happy Sandy = Happy Family.  Happy Family = Good Life For All.  But that’s enough math for the day.

6.  Leafy trees.  Songbirds need leafy trees, and warm breezes blowing through leafy trees is such a relaxing sound.  Besides that, what good would a  hammock be if I had no leafy tree to put it under?  Except I don’t have a hammock, so I really can’t debate that point very well, but IF I had a hammock, it would be under my most favorite leafy tree (which I wrote a devotional about here).

7.  Freshly mown grass.  I love the smell of freshly mown grass.  Truly I do.  It smells like…like…summer!  And what’s better than summer?

8.  Newly baled hay.  It’s the only thing that MIGHT smell better than freshly mown grass.  The smell of fresh hay is such a wonderful smell…even though it makes my eyes water and my nose drip and my lungs wheeze and my skin break out in welts…I still love it! 

9.  Bare feet.  Simply put, my theory is that God intended feet to be bare or He would have created us with shoes.  That’s all there is to it.  I keep trying to convince Cowboy of this, but he claims he NEEDS his boots and he won’t budge on the matter.  He snickers every time I stub my toe.  But I will give credit where credit is due:  he no longer says “if you were wearing shoes that wouldn’t have hurt,” though the smirk on his face tells me he still thinks it.  

10.  Summer nights.  This has got to be the GREATEST of all summer greatness on the farm.  Especially when it comes automatically including #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, and #9.  Substitute #5 with frogs and spring peepers, and the absolute ONLY thing you could add to make a summer night ANY better, is the sound of rolling thunder and a gentle rain beginning just about the time you crawl into bed. 

Ahhhh…SUMMER!