10 Summer Questions for

Rose asked, and I answered! Here are 10 questions about summer - just for fun!
Summer Fun 2024 tag!
1. What are your favorite summer activities ?
2. What is your favorite summer food?
3. Do you celebrate any summer holidays ?
4. What do you do for summer vacation? Do you have any favorite places ?
5. What is your favorite summer smell?
6. Do you have any special summer weather where you live?
7. Where is your favorite place to cool off?
8. Do you go to concerts or outdoor events ?
9. Do you play any summer sports ?
10. What are your favorite summer fashion trends ?
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[@bonneswartzfager4190]

The beach is a must in hot and humid NW PA. Presque Isle State Park in Erie PA is like an imitation ocean. Potato salad and watermelon are my favorite summer foods. My favorite summer smell is the wild roses. They don't look like much, but their sweet aroma wafts in the nighttime open windows of summer while I'm sleeping. We can watch the storms roll in here too. Giant thunderheads with lightning shooting through them is amazing. Once in a while we have a nighttime fire and food with our grown children. Sometimes I need a crocheted shawl on those chilly nights.

[@slowcrochet]

You have a beautiful way with words! I felt like I was there with you, experiencing those roses and those storms! Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart! 💗💗

[@GDR619]

Summer in the AZ desert is like having a reverse "snow day". If you don't have a place to be in water, you pretty much hibernate in the ac when possible. Love the summer storms though! Sweet, juicy watermelon, family dinner night with pool volleyball, rain on pavement......

[@slowcrochet]

Ahh, I bet playing in the rain during the summertime is just wonderful in AZ! I imagine pools come standard with most homes! 🧡🧡

[@RoselikescrochetB]

Thanks for doing the summer tag Mary! 💜☀️

[@slowcrochet]

My pleasure! Thanks for hosting it! 💗💕

[@ShannonTalksYarn]

We are a house divided when it comes to okra lol. I’m not a huge fan 😂

[@slowcrochet]

I understand! It is really polarizing 😂 My husband wasn't a fan at first, either, but I converted him 😂

[@MimiMakesKeepsakes]

Oh yes! Southern summers as a child and when my children were little is just magical-long days of playing and looking at the stars at night. It’s the best! Don't blink. 💛

[@slowcrochet]

I'll try to remember that when the mischief levels are through the roof 😂❤️💕

[@lifeinjaneyscrochetworld8756]

Ella from No catchy name KZbin goes to waterfalls,she lives in TENNESSEE ,have a nice day

[@slowcrochet]

Yes! She and I live a little ways apart and both stay home with our kids, but one of these days we will have to get together! ❤️💗

[@bettyloumallet7081]

I love juicy watermelon and the smell of cut grass. I love the feel of the sand at the ocean with bare feet and the constant sound of ocean waves. Ah Summertime!

[@slowcrochet]

Oh, the ocean! Our closest salt air is at least an 8 hour drive away. We have to settle for sound machines for waves 😂💗

[@noelle1729]

Yay for okra. =) I love okra, too. I make it how my grandmother fixed it, but it’s kinda wordy to describe. - Gardenia, honeysuckle, and magnolia are my scents of summer. =) (And for some weird reason, the smell of a window AC unit running. Haha. Childhood leaves its mark on your olfactory system. =) )

[@slowcrochet]

I bet your grandmother's okra is phenomenal. I pretty much love it every which way. Oh, magnolias... Could there be a more elegant tree, in every way? Yes, childhood scents do bring us back. Fresh sawdust always brings me back to my grandfather's wood shop! 💘💘

[@JustMeandCrochet]

Hi Mary, it was nice to get to know you better. I'm a Alabama girl. Lived close to Mobile. I remember the storms we had but I don't favor them. Love watermelon. I can still remember the watermelon man coming by on his big truck and yelling "watermelon " and then he would stop and cut open one and let you test it out before you bought one, and we always got one😊 but my favorite fruit is sugarcane. We use to grow it and it was so good. I do remember the fireflies and there was alot of them. Good memories. I live in Ohio now. What I love about Ohio is the beautiful leaves that we have in the fall. We didn't have that in the south, but what I miss is the pecans, they were everywhere. Ok, I know the questions was about summer but I got carried away. This was fun.😊😊

[@slowcrochet]

What a beautiful part of Alabama you called home! Thank you for sharing your precious memories. I felt like I was there with you! We don't have a watermelon man, but there's a farm that has a peach truck, and you see it parked around town, and it's always important to stop and buy some fresh peaches. They are divine! Thanks for reminding me to keep an eye out! 😆💓💞

[@JoyceN818]

Great getting to know you a little better. 🥰

[@slowcrochet]

Aw, thanks, darlin'! 💗💗

[@cocoscrochet6380]

Hi Mary 🤗 wow! Nashville Tennessee sounds like an awesome place in the Summertime! ☀️🥰🧶🤩

[@slowcrochet]

Ahh, I'm biased, but it is! 😂💗 No beaches, though, so you've got me beat there! 💓💓

[@cocoscrochet6380]

@@slowcrochet …but you have waterfalls! 👏🏻👏🏻☀️🥰🧶🤩

[@sweetmomentsbyjessie]

Hi Mary! It was fun getting to know more about you! I caught fireflies when I was young too and I also love summer storms 😊

[@slowcrochet]

Fireflies are just so magical, aren't they! The best part as a child is getting to stay up late enough for them to come out! 😆💓💓

[@sweetmomentsbyjessie]

@@slowcrochet They are so magical! Lol and yes that was the best part 😄

[@anntally7503]

Love your answers to this, Mary! I love so many of those things as well. I'll have to head to a farmer's market and prepare okra that way!

[@slowcrochet]

I need to get to our market, too! I've been a little lax on my duties, but I've also been waiting til I think we've had the weather for it to come in. 😂 What other things do you like from your farmer's market?

[@anntally7503]

@@slowcrochet we often start our dinners with a pile of radishes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and parsley or cilantro. It's a tradition where my husband is from and I fell in love with it! 😍 thank you for asking!

[@slowcrochet]

@@anntally7503 That sounds delicious! What a wonderful family tradition!