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I believe that it is physically impossible (as in against the laws of physics) to arrive at the beach before 12 p.m. I have never been able to do it with my family. When we finally get there and see other families unpacked and lounging, I think they have time traveled.
Honestly, all of them!
I love feeling extra-warm and flooding the house with fresh air, but I miss the routine of the school year and am more than happy that my kids are quietly watching a movie on this rare dreary-weather day.
I definitely aim for the less-crowded places and timings, and take advantage of seasonal produce (plus I’ve been making SO MANY batches of ice cream this summer; cherry cheesecake flavour last night!).
And I check my small garden at least once per day for new blooms – although the deer have eaten nearly all of my hydrangea yet again, sadly. It’s amazing that it keeps coming back at this point.
Pretty ambivalent about fall at the moment!
I’m all four! I LOVE summer! The hydrangeas (especially this year)! The fresh produce! The glorious beach days! The stormy thunderstorms that force you inside for a movie day! I soak up every single bit of it!
All of them! 😎
I spend so much time talking and thinking about hydrangeas! 😂 In the spring I am the azalea lady.
Half summer foodie, half movie lady. I don’t do well in extreme heat/humidity ( ugh! ), but the love beach any time of year.
I’m known to stop and admire hydrangeas whenever I see one. My perfectly purple hydrangea in my yard makes me very happy.
The summer foodie!!!
Team anti summer or at least team experiencing summer from the inside of a windowless office. It’s the busiest time of year at work for me so haven’t had a leisurely summer in a decade. Bring on fall and winter!
Proudly anti-summer! I hate the heat. I love the snow and cold. I live in a city that has a lot of events all summer long and traffic is horrific and sidewalks are so crowded. I love how peaceful it is in winter. When temps get sub zero I feel like I have the world to myself!
Sergeant Beach Lady 100%! Look, when everyone else is enjoying a primo spot, every necessity for a perfect day and maximum amounts of fun, they can thank me!
I’m with you Allyson. Plus add Summer foodie.
I am a mix if them all (except the anti-summer) 😉
This made me laugh out loud because I’m the person who talks (often out loud) to plants on my walks in the summer. Glad to know there are others out there saying things like “well, look at you!”, or “how do you do that red? It’s incredible.”
Anti-summer but also flowers as a whole personality. But not hydrangeas.
Summer foodie! (But not tomatoes. Yuck!)
I like about a month of summer at most. Luckily I live in Scotland, so that’s about all we get.
August is very busy in Edinburgh though, and while it’s an exciting month for a lot of people I just count down until it’s over. There are too many people and it’s too hard to get anywhere. I’m already ready for September.
We happened to visit Scotland last September just after Fringe. And coincidentally the first week of glorious summer weather you all had had. The relief in Edinburgh was palpable. Truly the most gorgeous country I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to some great places (nor am I a stern judge) but driving through the highlands will be a highlight of my life to the end I’m sure. And Edinburgh is so cool. Anyway as a fellow northerner, curently living in Minnesota, I just had to gush about Scotland. I do feel like northern summers deserve their own panel.
Definitely hydrangeas as a whole personality. I planted hydrangeas on all four sides of my house, and they make me so incredibly happy while they are blooming. I think about them in the winter and wonder at how much bigger they’ll be the next summer. They just delight me!!!
Sergeant Beach Lady reporting for duty! Except I don’t care what time we get there lol
I’m all 4 – but especially if you swap squash and tomatoes for hydrangeas, only because they don’t grow in my neck of the woods!
I used to thrive on summer, revel in the sunshine, embrace the “air you can wear”, worked hard in the garden and on my patio pots… Now, post menopause where I sweat just looking at my kitties sleeping in a patch of sunshine on the floor, I have been enjoying more movies in cold theaters with an unlimited plan to keep it cost effective.
My new favorite season, autumn, will be here in a month and a half on the calendar if not in temperature. (But sometimes my favorite season is always the next one because I love anticipation…)
I am the quiet anti summer lady. I feel like a traitor because I love summer vacation (I’m a teacher) but I abhor the heat.
Side note: can you do a summer reading post? What did people read on the beach or, or poolside? What did they read by the fire when they went camping? What are people reading on the train, or out in their gardens or on their couch under the AC?
Same!
Kay, I recently read on vacation The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl. It’s a series of short meditations about the author’s observations of her backyard habitat. It functions as both a nature book and memoir. The individual essays are short, so not too demanding for a beach day or lounging on the patio.
I think I’m all four! I love hydrangeas, not crazy about summer heat, love fresh summer produce, and militant about sunblock!
LOUDLY anti-summer and it feels so freeing to declare it publicly lol. I hate when getting on the subway after work feels like entering the armpit of hell. There must be a sign on me somewhere that only mosquitoes can read saying, “All You Can Eat Buffet” and so they feast. Invite me to the beach and I will run for the hills, literally. But boy do I love a fresh, juicy peach with basil and grilled halloumi.
Struggling extra hard this summer with having to work full time while my kids (12 and 9) are home every day and my husband is often home. Sucks being the only one that has to go to work while everyone else is hanging out at home or doing fun stuff.
I’m a campire, drinking my fresh-squeezed lemonade outdoors in the moonlight when it’s decent.
June: summer is finally here! Strawberries! July: embrace the lake! (MN shout out). Mid-August: dear God, will summer ever end? September: kids are back in school! All the apples!
Thank you for acknowledging the Quietly Anti-Summers. A flower doesn’t bloom in all seasons, and summer is not mine to bloom, but I’m not a joy stealer for those who love it!
Agreed! I feel seen.
Same! Winter is my favorite season :P
I am all four summer personalities, along with a few more. I am grabbing every morsel of summer while I can.
I think I am a healthy mix of all four! Although lately the pumpkin spice has been calling to me…
Definitely anti summer. I hate heat waves, sweating , too much sun . Never understood what people like about summer.
Same, Marlene. I’m originally from the South and I just wilt in heat AND ESPECIALLY humidity. It drains my energy.
100%. But it’s triple digits everyday in the summer where I live. My soul gets thin and almost desperate. Maybe that’s how people feel in the north in their long, dark winters. But I feel my sap rising again at the end of October.
Anti summer because of heat waves and rashes due to it. Loved summer when I was younger but now I love cool temperatures where I can go out for a walk without being drenched in sweat. Summer is overrated. Bonnie you made me laugh with your comment about menopause. I so understand what you’re going through.
I love summer ! Especially here in the PNW ! As a life long East Coaster until 2 years ago, summer was all A/C and escaping the humidity! But here, I had my windows open from April til October last year, my first summer living here. And looks like same this year ! Warm sunny days reading on the porch and temps actually go down at night which is so nice, and different!
“Summer afternoon… summer afternoon…to me they will always be the most beautiful words in the English language” — Henry James
Sergeant Beach Lady except Sergeant Hike Lady. We must beat the crowds to the trailhead!!
Haha, Emm, me too!
Although I am also a summer foodie, aka a person who plans entire meals around corn on the cob.
Emm and Erin – can we be friends? I will have coffee for you if you pick me to head to the mountains at 6! I also pack premium snacks.
You cannot waste summer!! (It is very short where I live.)
I’m a mix of the bottom two. Love my cold weather but will embrace summer because of all the seasonal produce.
Oh how I want to be a summer foodie because I love all the summer foods. Problem is, I hate to cook/prepare food! LOL. Perhaps one day I will learn to love it and bask in the glorious spoils of my local farmer’s market!
I would swap tomatoes and zinnias for hydrangeas, but I’m all 4!
Anti-summer for the win! I live in the PNW and every morning my house is enshrouded in fog and I can’t see the ocean is a happy day. Rain would be awesome!
Rachel, fog and rain are my dream. A Michigan or PNW summer would be perfection. I’m anti-summer because I’m in an Alabama summer.
Autumn will come, but for now I’m saved by air conditioning and blackout curtains.
Love this, Grace!! I am the summer foodie—with a side of sergeant fair weather cyclist (insists the whole family bikes to any play dates, activities, or errands to enjoy the good weather before the rain comes back).
Sergeant beach lady lol! I love summer, always will.
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