- The sweet song of the ice cream truck
- Frantically licking an ice cream cone before it drips down your fingers
- Ants f*cking everywhere, especially wherever people have let said ice cream drip
- Sudden deluges of rain, gorgeous thundershowers
- And lightning! Flash boom crackle crackle
- Counting to see how far away the lightning is
- Construction season, both your own improvement projects and others’
- Kids in wee little inflatable pools
- Watermelon juice dripping down your chin
- Or peach juice
- (I don’t like plums)
- Chewing up to the rind like a dog with a bone to get all the yummy flesh
- Edging along by houses and walls when you take walks in the heat because they cast shadows and emanate cool
- Rocking your sunglasses
- Mosquitoes f*cking everywhere
- Mosquito bites
- Struggling to sleep without the sheltering safety of six layers of blankets (who feels protected by ONE SHEET?)
- Outdoor cats refusing to come in for the night
- Bare legs sticking to leather and fake leather and plastic seats with sweat
- The smell of cookouts occurring around the neighborhood
- That shimmer of heat rising from grills or baking asphalt
- Chalk left on sidewalks
- Those popsicle sticks that come in plastic tubes that my Grandmom used to buy us when we were little
- Neighbors setting off fireworks (got to love that quarter stick of TNT)
- The feeling of your skin being kissed by AC when you come into a building from the sweltering heat
- The feeling of the sun beaming down on you when you come outside after freezing in a building with dangerously zealous AC
- Feeling strangled by any clothes that you put on
- Exciting fruit in the grocery stores. And vegetables
- Gentle breezes rippling through summer leaves and the lovely noises
- The smell on your hands after you touch your tomato plants
- Music blasting out of open car windows, hearing it from blocks and blocks away
- Awkward non-beach tans
- Trying to cool off- freezing showers, shoving your head in a bucket of cold water (works best with long hair to hold the water), a cool wash cloth
- The whirring of fans
- Swan boats and duck boats in Boston
- The smell of summer rain (petrichor)
- The pain of subjecting your legs to long pants on a cooler day- so irritating!
- Playing in sprinklers and fountains
- The pain of cooking with the oven on a hot day
- Summer blockbusters
- Summer carnivals and amusement parks and water parks
- Whale watches
- When you’re little or very tired (or both) going to bed before it’s even gotten dark out
- Lemon ices
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