summer reading

Does anyone have any suggestions for summer reading? Love to hear what you all are reading and any suggestions you might have for me.

Nancy

How We're Spending Our Summer Vacation

Here we are on the patio on a Sunday afternoon--our favorite place in the summer. Dinners last for over an hour when the cards come out - Quiddler and Hollwood Gin Rummy are the current favorites. It's also where we recoup after working in the yard. We're getting a little older and there is more frequent and longer recouping than there used to be. So we get the cards out again and enjoy the view, some ice water, and an occasional(lite) ice cream bar.

Mom's garden is particularly lovely this year. The roses are fabulous, and the perennials are an everchanging array of color. We got 2 gallons of really good bio-eco-goop from a guy in the ward to put on the lawn, and it's the greenest it's ever been.

The birds are great: The heron is back for his 6th season in a starring role. Osprey fish regularly in the ponds. We see finches, red-winged blackbirds, robins, kestrels, juncos, and an occasional flicker. There are at least 3 families of goslings this year already looking like gawky teenagers. And we have a duck couple that waddles into the yard and dines on the spilled seed below the bird feeder. So far just one black-chinned hummingbird, but he's putting on an entertaining display of swoops and swirls - we think he's protecting a nest, but we can't tell from what! He's not threatening us (yet).

Wish you were here.