How can you not love summer? For me it is the best season of the entire year. There are just so many things you can do in the summer. You can enjoy the outdoors, whether it is out of town or in your back yard, you can have lovely bar-b-ques on the back deck, or go for walks around the city without fear of frost bite or slipping on ice.
I was asked to distill my love for summer into a top three list. I immediately rattled off three things I love about summer. I then immediately amended the list. I soon realized that I needed some time to think carefully about this list. I could easily come up with the top 20 things I love about summer and with little trouble craft a top 10 list. A top 3 things I love about summer time was going to be difficult.
I took about a week to decide on my final list of excellent summer time things. After narrowing down the endless list of awesome things, I finally decided on: 1) spending time gardening in one of my many gardens (house and cottage, front and back yards), 2) spending time riding my seadoo at our lake cottage, and 3) having gourmet meals that I cook with my Big Green Egg.
I love to cook and consider cooking to be a hobby. I didn't really love to BBQ until approximately 5 years ago when we started to BBQ on a Big Green Egg. The BGE is a charcoal smoker BBQ based an ancient Japanese method of cooking. The BGE is a large ceramic BBQ that has a huge range of temperatures and great temperature control. It can quickly cook the perfect steak at 700 degrees or slow roast ribs at 200 degrees all afternoon. A summer time BBQ is much more fun if you have a Big Green Egg.
I love the water and love to be on or in the water as much as possible. I have always had a love of personal watercraft such as windsurfers and canoes. My most recent personal watercraft passion involves Seadoos. I love to pull off the Seadoo cover early in the morning and get out on the lake. I don't love the roar of anything motorized. I just love to putt around the lake and take in the sounds of the morning.
My next favorite thing about summertime is my garden. I guess I should say that gardening is my favorite thing, since I don't think I would enjoy my garden as much if I just hired a gardener. No, I love to be out working in the garden, weeding, figuring out what plants need to be moved, planning whether I should add more bulbs this fall for next spring. My Achilles heel is pruning - I know it brings plants back fuller and stronger, but it's so hard to lose so much growth. I'm getting getting better year by year, and I'm happy I force myself to do it because it really does have a big effect.
Just thinking about my top three list is making me a bit sad, because unfortunately the end of another season has come, and we just recently packed up the cottage and pulled the seadoos home for the winter. There is still a bit of gardening I can do, and happily there is quite a bit more bar-b-queing weather. But nothing compares to the the beginning of summer and the thought that a whole new season of my favorite summer time things is ready to begin. - 30289
I was asked to distill my love for summer into a top three list. I immediately rattled off three things I love about summer. I then immediately amended the list. I soon realized that I needed some time to think carefully about this list. I could easily come up with the top 20 things I love about summer and with little trouble craft a top 10 list. A top 3 things I love about summer time was going to be difficult.
I took about a week to decide on my final list of excellent summer time things. After narrowing down the endless list of awesome things, I finally decided on: 1) spending time gardening in one of my many gardens (house and cottage, front and back yards), 2) spending time riding my seadoo at our lake cottage, and 3) having gourmet meals that I cook with my Big Green Egg.
I love to cook and consider cooking to be a hobby. I didn't really love to BBQ until approximately 5 years ago when we started to BBQ on a Big Green Egg. The BGE is a charcoal smoker BBQ based an ancient Japanese method of cooking. The BGE is a large ceramic BBQ that has a huge range of temperatures and great temperature control. It can quickly cook the perfect steak at 700 degrees or slow roast ribs at 200 degrees all afternoon. A summer time BBQ is much more fun if you have a Big Green Egg.
I love the water and love to be on or in the water as much as possible. I have always had a love of personal watercraft such as windsurfers and canoes. My most recent personal watercraft passion involves Seadoos. I love to pull off the Seadoo cover early in the morning and get out on the lake. I don't love the roar of anything motorized. I just love to putt around the lake and take in the sounds of the morning.
My next favorite thing about summertime is my garden. I guess I should say that gardening is my favorite thing, since I don't think I would enjoy my garden as much if I just hired a gardener. No, I love to be out working in the garden, weeding, figuring out what plants need to be moved, planning whether I should add more bulbs this fall for next spring. My Achilles heel is pruning - I know it brings plants back fuller and stronger, but it's so hard to lose so much growth. I'm getting getting better year by year, and I'm happy I force myself to do it because it really does have a big effect.
Just thinking about my top three list is making me a bit sad, because unfortunately the end of another season has come, and we just recently packed up the cottage and pulled the seadoos home for the winter. There is still a bit of gardening I can do, and happily there is quite a bit more bar-b-queing weather. But nothing compares to the the beginning of summer and the thought that a whole new season of my favorite summer time things is ready to begin. - 30289
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