Summer is not my favorite season. In fact, if I had to rank the four, it might just find its way to the bottom. Without sounding like a diva, I really do not like to be hot, mosquitoes are my arch enemy, my grass always dies, the seats in my car burn my legs...I could go on and on. But, me being me, I always try to find the good in everything so there are a slight few simple pleasure wonders that I do enjoy about summer. Homemade ice cream tops the list, followed in no order of importance by sunflowers, home grown tomatoes, that first meal of the gardening season when everything but the meat came from the garden, summer hours at work, Keenan's big belly & popsickle picture (that's for you Melissa - yes it must become a yearly tradition!), fresh cantaloupe, and peaches. Does anyone else a common thread here? I think I like to eat. I had no idea! This blogging adventure has been quite a revealing and wonderful experience. I digress.
Peaches! I absolutely positively love fresh peaches! I love them just sliced up in a bowl with a little sugar...add a little cream drizzled on top and they're even better...they are so darn good in "Momma's Magic Peach Cobbler" (my grandma's famous recipe)...have you tried grilling them? Oh how I love peaches! When I lived near Cincinnati, thanks to my dear friend Rusty, I learned of the pure simple joy of a Greater's Peach Milkshake (cue the glowing angel music-AAAAAHHHHHHHHH). The heavenly sinful combination of homemade ice cream and peaches is pure joy and only comes around one time a year - Summer!
Sadly, I'm nowhere near a Greater's, but I do not let that stop me from enjoying this brief pleasure. In my attempt to be healthy and watching calories and fat and all that stuff, I must tell you that frozen vanilla yogurt does not quite do that little fuzzy ball of goodness complete justice. At the end of a long hot day though, it really doesn't matter. It still quenches the craving and all is well. As you can see, I left my glass practically peachly clean!
In life, there are a lot of things that do not top our list of favorite things to do and situations are not always optimum. I've learned though that life is just too darn short to not find the things that make us grin a little, maybe even giggle, and enjoy the heck out of them. Even if we have to use fat free frozen yogurt, add a dash of vanilla, make the most of it and enjoy the heck out of the peaches we're given!! They may come around only once.
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