Monday Musings

  I’m off on a long weekend trip and will miss the deadline for my usual Monday Musings blog. Just a quick note to let you know all is well. I will return next week. I hope you are enjoying your summer. You can follow the Author on her  Website  or  X .

The Summer Solstice occurred this past week, on June 21st. It is now officially summer.  I celebrated the onset of summer by planting three dozen perennial flowers to beckon beneficial insects to my vegetable garden. The subsequent days were filled with a deluge of rainstorms. The new plants drank their fill and now stand erect with new buds.

It’s one of those lazy, hazy summer days when no plan for the day is the best idea. Instead, it’s time to loll in the shade, cooled by nature’s breezes, lulled by the finches’ dulcet tones, and sip a drink, accompanied by the clink of ice cubes. It’s too hot to cook, even on the grill, so dinner will be a crisp, chilled salad and dessert, decadent gooey ice cream. [Rumor has it that the calories will cancel each other out] In that vein, tonight’s blog is short and sweet. Enjoy your evening. You can follow the Author at her  Website  or on  Twitter .