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Memories of Summer and Sun Tea

Jalál (Glory), 18 Núr (Light) 176 B.E. - Saturday, June 22, 2019

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Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise  (E) Blog City - Every Blogger's Paradise. #1972895 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

DAY 2011: Give us a taste of summer – either through a recipe, or a memory or story that expresses summer to you.

Memories of Summer

The memories of summer
blow through my mind,
like wind through the palm trees
outside my front door.

I listen for the laughter
of Grandpa Frank,
or the voice of Grandma Mary
as we drive toward
The Lake,
that was filled
by the Chikaskia River
in northern Oklahoma.

It was Friday,
of a Fourth of July weekend,
we had everything packed
for the picnic,
Independence Day celebration,
and a weekend at The Lake1.

GROUP

Blogging Circle of Friends   (E) A group for WDC bloggers. #1901868 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

DAY 2407: Ice cream float, lemonade, sun tea. Pick one or write about them all. Have fun. Be creative.

Sun Tea

To make sun tea you need a large, at least 1 gallon, glass jar with a lid. Wash and rinse the jay, fill jar with water, put tea bags in the jar, put lid on jar, and set jar in the sun. When the tea is dark take the tea bags out, DO NOT leave the tea bags in the tea, and put the tea in the refrigerator. Put ice cubes in a glass and pour some of the tea over them, add anything you want to your glass of tea.

Footnotes
1  To this day I don't know if The Lake had an official name. We always called it The Lake.