It’s Summertime Again!

For most of us that means lots of sun, lots of heat and different ways that we enjoy it. Water definitely plays a large part in summer. Whether it’s swimming at our favorite beach or pool or just that ice cold slug of water on our parched throats. Ahhh, I can taste it now. Maybe make some iced tea or some Kool-Aid for the kids. Now while some of us are splashing around in the water staying cool, some are content to lay and bake on the beach or pool side. It makes for some gorgeous tans but sometime you do get burned and ouch that can make for an uncomfortable night afterwards. There is also the fun memory of peeling each others skin in the days following.

Now lets talk food. All those delicious picnic foods like baked beans, potato salad, hotdogs, hamburgers, potato chips and colesaw. Maybe some shrimps on the barby or ribs and chicken. Don’t forget the napkins, salt and pepper, plasticware to make it all complete. Someone will no doubt bring a giant watermelon to table. Summer wouldn’t be summer without it.

Nor would summer be complete without friends family and relatives to come together to share the stories and the laughs and of course most of all, their contribution to the Pot-lucks.

... and no we didn't forget.

One more very important aspect of summer fun. “The Music”. Yes, I hope that you all take time for the music. Especially now that with just your phone and a little bluetooth speaker we can have a large cache of music with some pretty good sound quality even when we are fairly remote.

Looking back I find that it isn’t necessarily that we remember exactly what music we played at the time but it’s the memory that we have when we hear that same music in January or February that puts us back on the beach or pool side or pot-luck. You can almost smell the burgers and sun-tan lotion even for that brief moment that makes us yearn for summer again.

Don’t forget too, the live music that is never far away in the summer. In case you haven’t already noticed, in darn near every burgh and burb across this great land of ours there is a festival celebrating some event or another and most have live music. Whether it be a full rock band, a jazz quartet, a country singer, a blues band or bluegrass band or a mixed bag. So try to get yourselves out there to support the community and have some fun. Most of these live bands play for free (aka TIPS!) and go from one gig to the next to play in front of the next crowd because that’s what they do and I can’t imagine a festival without them. So remember to rattle their can with a few coins or drop a couple of bucks in their guitar case and hopefully they’ll be back next year.

In closing, we at Puff Peace would like to wish you all a safe and happy summer full of music and all the things that make summer special for you and yours. We are leaving you with a few of the songs that remind us of summers past.