Four little people at Metro Cafe join me to launch this blog into summer retreat mode
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:51AM ;)
Readers who were with me then will recall the great water battle that Kalib and Jobe got into when they stayed with us over Memorial Day weekend, when the temperature rose into the upper 70's. That kind of heat has not struck us again since. We have had days in the 60's and other days that never rose out of the 50's but no 70's.
Yet, yesterday was sunny and bright and pretty hot - upper 60's I'd say - and by the time I had pedaled my bike to Metro Cafe I had worked up a good sweat and so ordered an icy mocha frappe with a touch of raspberry, which I consumed outside on the patio, because it was entirely too hot to drink hot coffee and it was entirely too hot to sit inside.
On the patio, I was joined by these four: Reagan, Charlotte, Isabel and William.
"What's the matter, tough guy?" little Reagan challenged with a grin as he saw me sweating and drinking my frappe. "Can't handle the heat? Can't drink hot coffee? Got to retreat to a frappe?"
"We'll take ours black! Black and hot!" little Charlotte shouted out to Shoshana from her place in the stroller, next to Reagan. "We're real Alaskans!"
Shoshana then brought them each a 24 oz. hot, black, coffee. They each then lifted their coffees to their mouths and guzzled down every steaming drop in just 2.8 seconds.
"Another round!" Isabel shouted to Shoshana. "And make it hotter this time!"
The second round was guzzled equally fast.
"Good stuff!" William exuded. "Ten more rounds of black - and one more frappe for the sweaty guy!"
"Oh, dear!" their mother, who genuinely did tell me that she brings them to Metro at least once a week, sighed. "So many diapers!"
And with this, I launch this blog into the retreat of summer, 2011. I do not want to. There are few things that I enjoy more than blogging and the old world of print publishing is rapidly dying for me. I need to figure out how to do this.
So I don't want to retreat, but I have no choice. The burdens weighing upon my time now are huge. For the rest of the summer, I am going to try to restrict this blog to one picture per day, possibly two, perhaps three.
Except maybe once a week, or once every ten days, or twice every two weeks, I might see if I can work in a full-fledged post of many images - just to keep the idea alive.
Through this retreat, perhaps I can make it to fall, and maybe by then I can figure out how to start this blog and my online picture-story telling presence into what I want it to be.
With just one picture, there is no point in doing a slide show, but when there is only one picture, a simple click on the image will reveal a larger copy.
Reader Comments (6)
Thanks for todays picture and giggle; and for all the enjoyable reading you've provided in the past. Looking forward to seeing future adventures and blog incarnations, till then,
"Take time to recharge your batteries. It's hard to see where you're going when your lights are dim." -- Robert H. Connelly
Happy Summer! Happy Retreat!
I hope your work goes smoothly. I haven't commented recently, because a huge storm tried to knock down all the trees in our woods on our house, but only partially succeeded. Our summer will be a bit busy as well. Wish we could keep our temps in the 70's, because it will be close to 105* in a very few weeks.
Seems only fitting that we hear a bugle.
http://usscouts.org/mb/bugle/retreat.mp3
Recharge! We'll catch you when you get a minute.
we'll be here :)
No worry, you never disappoint and I'm incredibly patient and addicted to you & your blog. Take it easy & have a great summer.
Thank you, All - that bugle was just right, too.
I appreciate the patience and, ultimately, a big part of this retreat is to free up time from blogging so that I can figure out to better blog and tell stories and display photos online in the future.