Summer!

My Favorite Summer past time? Well, that's a hard decision! I love to do so many things in the Summer! I guess my favorite past time this year was hanging out with a couple of my dear friends.

We started a weekly tradition - plan on getting together on Friday or Saturday, basically if we miss Friday we definitely get together on Saturday! We don't get together to get all tired or hyped up. We get together to forget all the woes of work.

I know it sounds silly, but I've been told we "party" in weird places. We don't go to bars or sit in front of a TV, instead we decide who's house we're going to and who's bringing what wines.

I really enjoy hanging out at their house - they have a nice pond with a waterfall in their front yard and we sit on the deck listening to the bull frogs and the sound of the water. The tiki torches get lit for ambiance and the stereo get turned on to classic rock. They have the speakers that look like rocks that are absolutely cool and to hear Led Zepplin and Stevie Ray Vaughn coming out of them is so relaxing! Then, we talk about everything and marvel over how we seem to have similar issues. We laugh over stupid things and stare at the stars (in the country here we see so many stars it's beautiful) We drink homemade wines and the alcoholic discoveries of the week. Then we stumble around looking for chocolate and snacks. Laughing about who's stumbling the worst or who's scrambling their words. No worries, no tension, no strained conversation - even when we can't think of what to say we enjoy each others quiet moments (followed by lots of laughing and carrying ons)

Every now and then our quiet moments get interrupted by a "What is that?" The "What is that?" a couple of weeks ago turned out to be a possum lazily meandering it's way across their yard and back into the forest. Just mentioning the possum now sends all of us chuckling.

We laugh as the first glass gets poured, sometimes saying, "I've been waiting all week for tonight" While other time we talk about how this particular batch of wine was made and what was used - cherries, watermelon, grapes, peaches, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries... Then all the crashes, work or family turmoil, and stress and tension simply disappear.

I hope everyone enjoyed their quiet moments this summer and had a nice glass of wine in the quiet or with dear friends!
--Trina

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