Remember when we were kids and we would make a pitcher of koolade, write on a big sign "Lemonade 25¢" and then set up a table near the best intersection for stopping vehicles, it was like a popularity contest, how many people will stop for us today?
Temperatures have been above 100 for weeks now. Lately the temperature range has been about 103 to 116 Fahrenheit. And truly when the temperature is that hot you notice the difference of 103 or 116. It's HOT and then it's brutally HOT. Breezes during temperatures like this feel as refreshing as a blast furnace would about then. AC is the only way our family chooses to survive the heat. From the AC house into the AC car. Drive to the AC location and stay there until we need to brave the heat and return to the AC car to go back to our AC house. Not much adventure in that.
This fine Saturday afternoon, it is only 12:30pm mind you, the temperature has already risen to a balmy 108 Fahrenheit and I can see our guard waving his hat in front of himself to get a slight relief as I sit inside my AC house and the lemonade stand of my youth comes to mind.
Kids Middle and Three are gone for the summer and we have some lemonade concentrate, their drink of choice during the summer, in the freezer. So I made a quick pitcher of the refreshing drink, grabbed a pile of paper cups we have from our last party. Then I trodded down three flights of stairs with pitcher and cups in hand and began pouring a refreshing glass of lemonade for the guard at our gate, guards from the neighbors' gates, the driver and others that begin to flock to the "lemonade stand" inside our gate area. The same feeling of my youth and that of our children's youth. Pour a glass and they will come, they also begin to smile. All those gathered are happy to take a cup for themselves, most nod with appreciation. One woman asks for her cup to be filled "more" to the top so she can take it across the street to the construction sight (there is one on every corner, right). I pour until my pitcher is empty and my glasses are all used up. Perfect ratio of lemonade for the number of cups, almost as if I have done this before.
"Stay hydrated" I say as I trod back up three flights and sit inside our AC house. It was probably more fun for me because I was able to take a break from the work inside the house.
By the way, I did NOT charge 25¢ per glass. Hardly a martyr by any stretch of the imagination.
Below I have attached the weather link from BBC for your entertainment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/1261481
Temperatures have been above 100 for weeks now. Lately the temperature range has been about 103 to 116 Fahrenheit. And truly when the temperature is that hot you notice the difference of 103 or 116. It's HOT and then it's brutally HOT. Breezes during temperatures like this feel as refreshing as a blast furnace would about then. AC is the only way our family chooses to survive the heat. From the AC house into the AC car. Drive to the AC location and stay there until we need to brave the heat and return to the AC car to go back to our AC house. Not much adventure in that.
This fine Saturday afternoon, it is only 12:30pm mind you, the temperature has already risen to a balmy 108 Fahrenheit and I can see our guard waving his hat in front of himself to get a slight relief as I sit inside my AC house and the lemonade stand of my youth comes to mind.
Kids Middle and Three are gone for the summer and we have some lemonade concentrate, their drink of choice during the summer, in the freezer. So I made a quick pitcher of the refreshing drink, grabbed a pile of paper cups we have from our last party. Then I trodded down three flights of stairs with pitcher and cups in hand and began pouring a refreshing glass of lemonade for the guard at our gate, guards from the neighbors' gates, the driver and others that begin to flock to the "lemonade stand" inside our gate area. The same feeling of my youth and that of our children's youth. Pour a glass and they will come, they also begin to smile. All those gathered are happy to take a cup for themselves, most nod with appreciation. One woman asks for her cup to be filled "more" to the top so she can take it across the street to the construction sight (there is one on every corner, right). I pour until my pitcher is empty and my glasses are all used up. Perfect ratio of lemonade for the number of cups, almost as if I have done this before.
"Stay hydrated" I say as I trod back up three flights and sit inside our AC house. It was probably more fun for me because I was able to take a break from the work inside the house.
By the way, I did NOT charge 25¢ per glass. Hardly a martyr by any stretch of the imagination.
Below I have attached the weather link from BBC for your entertainment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/1261481
1 comment:
How fun and simple is that? Love this!
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