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Summer Loves: Ice Cream!

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I hope the Summer Psalms series enhanced your peace and lifted your hearts. I’m going to relax my topics for August and post four summer treats I love. Feel free to chime in with some of your own.

Ice cream! Yes, I know it’s a year-round dessert, but doesn’t it just taste best in the summer? The picture on this post is of our grand-triplets licking cones while seated in their attachable wagons (the best way Shane and Amy could keep them in one place). That was many years ago. This week they celebrated their 19th birthdays—with Ice Cream Cake, of course.

Fun Facts:

  • A form of ice cream has been eaten since around 4000 BC.
  • In 2012, Italy put the most scoops on one cone—71!
  • 90% of Americans eat ice cream, with vanilla ranking the #1 favorite.
  • We’ve been singing, “I sing, you sing, we all sing for ice cream” since 1927.

Rich and I love trekking to the Bellvale Farms Creamery, where the scenery is as awesome as the ice cream. Rich’s favorite is the Bellvale Bog (think chocolate amplified), and mine is Coconut—with dark chocolate-covered almonds. Be still my heart, and don’t count the calories!

So, what’s your favorite flavor?

Heat Wave

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Summer officially arrived Friday, June 20, at 10:42 p.m. and it didn’t waste time proving itself. Days later, it delivered an unprecedented heat wave—and it’s not yet July! However, in light of my recent posts about holding our eyes higher, we will not harp on the high temperatures, the 24/7 hum of air conditioning, or the ensuing electric bills. We will appreciate all that is good about summer.

If you’ve followed my posts for more than a year, you’re aware that summer is my least favorite season, BUT there are still wonderful blessings to be found in its three-month span. These are some things I love about summer:

  • Air conditioning. How we enjoy our first home with central air!
  • Watermelon, Bing cherries, cantaloupe, strawberries and berries.
  • Fresh salads with Jersey tomatoes, crisp cukes, colored peppers, and a variety of local veggies.
  • A more leisurely lifestyle, no schedules, relaxed breakfasts.
  • Nature’s newness, baby fawns in our yard and hummingbirds at our feeders.
  • Walking out the door in tee shirts and flip flops, with no thought of a jacket.
  • Barbecues—burgers & dogs, chicken & ribs, corn on the cob.
  • Longer days, shining sun and dappled shade, rocking in the hammock.
  • The joy of flitting lightning bugs and butterflies.
  • Ice cream—refreshment in a cone, on a stick, or in a bowl.
  • Sudden showers and rumbles of thunder.
  • Iced tea, homemade with the time-perfected amount of sugar and lemon.

What do you love about summer?  

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat, summer and winter,
day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22