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Title: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Slick on 25 May 2008, 10:15
Righty-oo, it's summer time for those of us blessed to be in the good, wholesome, god-fearing hemisphere, and as such, it is now time to take advantage of those things we love to do in the summer but can't for lack of fresh produce. Or rather, it's time to eat the same food we do year round but not feel bad about ourselves for shipping our lemons and tomatoes thousands of kilometers!

For a quote from just over two years ago, of a recipe I've posted hereabouts most likely several more times than once, jalapeno lemonade:
Fun summer drink:
Simmer one and a half cups sugar in a half cup water, mix constantly till dissolved (clear). Remove from heat
Add 6 cups water + 3/4 cup lemon juice (feel free to throw some lime juice in there if you want as well). Mix briefly.
Toss in two Jalapeno peppers, diced, but large enough to be removed later. Let sit in fridge for anywhere from an hour to a day, then remove peppers.
I'm partial to leaving the peppers in, just for effect, but remind people not to eat them. Unless they like that sort of thing. And remember to sip the drink, don't gulp. Mixes well with gin, if that's your thing.
If you haven't figured it out, it's Jalapeno Lemonade! Delicious served with barbecued food and fresh air.
CAUTION: Do not boil the mixture with the peppers in it! That will make it way too spicy.
Basically, this drink epitomizes summer to me. I love it dearly. And will be making it this afternoon. My lemons may have traveled from the United States, but at least they didn't come from that heathen-den of 'Mexico'.

Now, if you're too scared to try some simple jalapeno juice, I've got another of my summer favorites for you as well! Insalata Caprese, which my grandmother calls salad of the sun, while the internet asserts it's just salad in the style of the island of Capri. Regardless what you think it means, I think it means delicious delicious summer-time bliss. I've no measurements for you, since I rather buy too much and accidentally have leftover goat cheese/tomatoes/herbs (though the later two will be coming from my gardens soon). Essentially, you slice tomatoes just less than the thickness of a guitar-cable jack, slice (ball) mozzarella just a little bit thiner, then lay them alternatingly along a dish that should be able to hold at least two rows of tomato. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with fresh basil/parsley as desired, then consume without restraint or remorse. Serves however many you choose to serve with it.


What makes summer delicious to you?
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: ForteBass on 25 May 2008, 10:19
Do you think this lemonade would work with a dash of cayenne instead of jalapeño?
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Slick on 25 May 2008, 10:40
Well, I reckon it certainly could work with a dash of cayenne, but I'd sooner soak cayenne peppers in it than just dash in the powdered stuff. I think the soaking lets it take on the flavour as well as the bite or the pepper, and I think some of that is lost in the process of drying and powdering the peppers.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: öde on 25 May 2008, 11:46
Cayenne usually tastes awesome in lemonade/ginger beer, but I imagine it'll give a very different flavour.
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Post by: ForteBass on 25 May 2008, 12:20
I can agree with that, but I've also always been partial to that flavor over jalapeño.

Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Liz on 25 May 2008, 12:28
Today I made French toast with my kitchen window open to let the breeze in. That felt pretty darn summery to me.

But summer to me is grilling burgers and having watermelon outside. When that starts to happen you know summer is either fast approaching or already there.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Tom on 25 May 2008, 13:49
Righty-oo, it's summer time for those of us blessed to be in the good, wholesome, god-fearing hemisphere

FIGHT YOU!1!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: sean on 25 May 2008, 14:05
Oh man, yes. Water melons.

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Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: RedLion on 25 May 2008, 15:07
Someone reads the AV club I see.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Aminal on 25 May 2008, 15:12
Righty-oo, it's summer time for those of us blessed to be in the good, wholesome, god-fearing hemisphere

FIGHT YOU!1!

Sorry baby, it's good to be on top.

Oh, and it's summer because I'm drinking red wine in the bright sunlight, but it's still socially acceptable. (After 5!)  Now I'm going to go blow smoke rings and argue with Peruvians.  G'day, chumps!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Sox on 25 May 2008, 15:47
Aminal, where's that avatar from? So familiar!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: sean on 25 May 2008, 16:02
Someone reads the AV club I see.

Hey, booze + watermelon sounds good to me.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Darkbluerabbit on 25 May 2008, 18:55
Booze infused fruit makes a nice party snack, but I get full before I get anywhere beyond a warm buzz. 

I am saddened that I will have yet another summer without this pleasure, but two summers ago when I still lived at home, we had a garden.  We grew tomatoes and peppers and carrots and salad greens.  I could get go out to the garden and gather veggies, clean and slice them, and throw them into a tortilla with some hummus.  It was like you could still TASTE THE SUN in those wraps.  No purchased produce will ever compare to freshly picked.

I like apartment dwelling otherwise, but man, I do miss a nice garden.  Fresh food is summer to me.

Grilling is a wonderful part of summer as well.  Unfortunately I only have the classic high school graduation gift; the mini George Foreman grill. 

I wonder if there are any external outlets on my building.  Setting up a pathetic George Foreman barbecue in my parking lot would be sort of entertaining. 
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 25 May 2008, 20:38
Summer makes me wish that Superman hadn't been able to stop Communist-Superman from blowing up the sun.  It's not even summer and I'm wishing for Fall when I'm not trying to furiously throw rocks at the DawnStar.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Cartilage Head on 25 May 2008, 20:41
Fuck summer. Try living in Florida if you love summer. Fuck summer.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: NarwhalSunshine on 25 May 2008, 21:06
It's about time for the most amazing thing anyone will ever eat, home made blueberry/blackberry jam.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Dissy on 25 May 2008, 22:26
Fuck summer. Try living in Arizona if you love summer. Fuck summer.

Shit, we have a toatally fucked summer ahead of us (Quasi-Americans I mean, aka New Mexico).  It broke 100 in the middle of the week lastweek, then plumments 25 degrees the next two days, and now a 10 degree jump for the weekend.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Social Bacon on 25 May 2008, 23:02
My summertime recipe is marinating anything with beer; because when you're standing out in the sun making steak and holding beer, why the hell not?

I am going to try that jalapeño lemonade though. Slick, you give me all the best recipes, I have no reason to doubt your expertise.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Spluff on 25 May 2008, 23:11
God damn you, Northern Hemisphere.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: E. Spaceman on 25 May 2008, 23:20
this summer i will work 8 hours a day 6 days a week. It will be exactly like the fall and winter were.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: DonInKansas on 26 May 2008, 00:06
Mowin' the lawn on a riding lawn mower with a beer in the cupholder.  That's friggin' summer right there.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Slick on 26 May 2008, 09:37
Fuck summer. Try living in Florida if you love summer. Fuck summer.

Man, I don't love summer, I just love all of the seasons. One of the things summer has that other seasons do not have, however, is lots of fresh produce in my back yard.


I will try cayenne lemonade as soon as my jug of jalapeno runs out. I expect this to be later today or tomorrow.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: RedLion on 26 May 2008, 11:22
Wisconsin's worse.

It was 60 on Saturday. It's almost 90 today.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Social Bacon on 26 May 2008, 12:20
26 today in London and I was boiling. I'm built for blizzards not the heat, damnit! On the plus side summer does mean I can break out my bike, I just got it tuned a few weeks back in preparation.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 26 May 2008, 12:35
To me, summer means camping with lots of soda, fire-roasted meats and shenanigans.  Also, corn on the cob.  Yum.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: ledhendrix on 26 May 2008, 12:42
Summer is fishing, camping, swimming outdoors, cycling about, surfing, trampolining. It also means the lovely lead up to skin cancer.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lines on 26 May 2008, 13:10
Summer means swimming, late night bonfires, grilling out (which we did yesterday, YUM), frisbee golf, canoeing, amusement parks, reading outside, road trips, and lots and lots of fresh fruit. It also means slathering on the SPF 60 sunscreen and bug repellent.

This summer will also mean the end of my edumacation. (For now anyways.)
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 26 May 2008, 14:01
Oh damn, how could I have forgot swimming and frisbee?
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Darkbluerabbit on 26 May 2008, 14:16
Mowin' the lawn on a riding lawn mower with a beer in the cupholder.  That's friggin' summer right there.

You can get an OWI for that, just FYI.  Even on your own property.  It's unlikely, but it's happened.

(OWI = operating while intoxicated)
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Barmymoo on 26 May 2008, 14:18
What's an OWI? When I first read it I thought you were telling us that you can hurt yourself (in a cutesy kid way) and then realised that would be stupid.

Summer is when you can lie on the grass and look at the sky and it's a perfect blue dome over you.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Emaline on 26 May 2008, 14:46
I am hopefully going camping in the next few weeks. I'm so tempted to bring jalapeño lemonade with us. It sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: vegkitkat on 26 May 2008, 18:49
It's all about the lemonade-especially the super cheap one that comes in the green carton. It's the best one out there. I may have to try your cayenne/jalepeno lemonade, James; your brownie pie was amazing, so I feel like you can do no wrong.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 26 May 2008, 20:39
Oh man, I want to go camping/fishing/swimming/frollicking so much! I'd really really like to do a road trip with friends to camp for a weekend or something. Don't get me wrong, I like my family, but I've pretty much done the camping thing with  them for almost 20 years now, going with just friends and showing my proficiency and skill would lull me into a state of an illusion of self-sufficiency.

Today me my dad and my brother went to this place called Gunpowder State Park along Interstate 83 in northern Maryland today, we hiked along a river for a couple of hours, got tired because the bank got really rocky and we didn't have the right shoes for it. The blisters are worth it.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Spluff on 26 May 2008, 23:02
Wisconsin's worse.

It was 60 on Saturday. It's almost 90 today.

Is that supposed to be hot? We hit 110 F three days in a row here, in autumn.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lunchbox on 26 May 2008, 23:26
The Summertime thread is not a thread to be seeing who lives in the hottest place. It is a thread about AWESOME THINGS TO DO OVER THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS! Hooray!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: öde on 27 May 2008, 05:40
Yaaay!
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Post by: clockworkjames on 27 May 2008, 05:57
Spend £5 on pixie sticks and limeade, eat them all then pass out in the sun after running around and climbing trees.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Inlander on 27 May 2008, 07:04
Fuck you, summer! It's deep autumn in Melbourne and I've got lemon delicious.
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Post by: redglasscurls on 27 May 2008, 07:37
It's summer in Maryland and I'm enjoying the kind of lazy morning only possible in early summer when the bugs aren't horrible yet- laptop and oat cookies on the back porch
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lines on 27 May 2008, 08:18
I like the beginning of summer for the lack of bugs. I like being able to mow the lawn in shorts and not worry about getting 20 bug bites on my legs.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: thegreatbuddha on 27 May 2008, 08:55
Oh man, yes. Water melons.
pic of drunken water melon
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One of myfavorite things to do at cookouts is to grease up a booze-soaked watermelon, tossit in a pond, and have a contest to see who can get it back to shore. The prize is we all get drunk on watermelon, and no one really loses.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Aminal on 27 May 2008, 10:07
How does the booze-infused watermelon (inboozed?) not become also infused with pond water?

I take it back, it's not summer yet.  There's no fireflies here.  Does anybody else have fireflies yet?

I do appreciate the lack of mosquitoes, however.  Also no-see'ums, they got me really badly on my trip to the Keys and I was left gnawing my swollen limbs like a junkie the whole drive home.  So Itchy.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: johnny5 on 27 May 2008, 10:16
that boozemelon is a great idea. i am going to try to visit many amusement parks. maybe have a summer romance to visit them with.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: sean on 27 May 2008, 10:34
It's summer in Maryland and I'm enjoying the kind of lazy morning only possible in early summer when the bugs aren't horrible yet- laptop and oat cookies on the back porch

I love this part of summer in Maryland. It very pleasant outside and there is hardly a bug outside to pester you. Its absolutely lovely.

Anyway besides the boozin' water melon one of my favorite parts of summer is sitting outside a hookah bar late at night just chattin with a few close friends. No better way to smoke hookah than that.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: waterloosunset on 27 May 2008, 10:40
What's this summer thing everyone is talking about? All I ever see is rain, perhaps with a spot of dry, cloudy overcast to make a welcome change.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Dimmukane on 27 May 2008, 10:42
Yeah, so Saturday I went to a bonfire, and yesterday there was an impromptu cookout at my friends house.  Great times were had.  Between 8 people we managed to eat 18 bratwurst and 8 burgers.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: ledhendrix on 27 May 2008, 10:46
Yeah sitting around a campfire passing a joint around or a couple of beers is excellent. The only bad thing about summer in Scotland is the midges. Those disgusting little things are the bane of every calm day.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Oli on 27 May 2008, 10:50
A Sunny Day In Glasgow means: Sitting on the hill in Kelvingrove park and listening to music, barbecues, fun times, no work, getting drunk, eating dinner at 11pm because it's so damn sunny so damn late you forget the time, dreampop.

Summer in Scotland for me means: Camping, midges, campfires, late nights, early mornings, reading the books I've not had a chance to because of all the reading for my course.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Slick on 27 May 2008, 11:00
GIVE ME INFORMATION I CAN USE TO MAKE MY SUMMER BETTER
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Peet on 27 May 2008, 11:12
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(http://cottagedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/barbeque.jpg)
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Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Dimmukane on 27 May 2008, 11:53
Yeah sitting around a campfire passing a joint around or a couple of beers is excellent. The only bad thing about summer in Scotland is the midges. Those disgusting little things are the bane of every calm day.

Yeah, that's basically what we did, minus midges.  Plus beforehand we watched Yojimbo.

Also hailing from Maryland.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: pwhodges on 27 May 2008, 12:06
What's this summer thing everyone is talking about? All I ever see is rain, perhaps with a spot of dry, cloudy overcast to make a welcome change.

We had summer in England a couple of weeks ago, just like last year - did you miss it?  Soon it will be time for the return of the floods in our newly instituted monsoon season.

Paul
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Gemmwah on 27 May 2008, 12:12
It's a shame. It was so nice a few weeks ago, and then the RAIN yesterday, jesus christ.

It was probably made worse by the fact that I was standing out in it for three hours, but still. Fucking hell.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lines on 27 May 2008, 13:12
GIVE ME INFORMATION I CAN USE TO MAKE MY SUMMER BETTER

LOTS OF SEX
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: RedLion on 27 May 2008, 14:32
Summer is the time for being consumed by suffocating hopelessness.

Wait, that's Winter.

Summer is the time for spur-of-the-moment trips to Chicago, sitting out back reading, getting fully in shape, occasionally taking foreign substances, Bruce Springsteen's first four albums, making my own music, going to gigs, and going to Madison about once a week--most of these things with friends, except for the obvious (reading.) This summer, it actually includes going to Italy, France Switzerland and Spain.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Scrambled Egg Machine on 27 May 2008, 14:40
Going to Galveston and spending money on paintballs and army surplus camo netting. Swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, eating flounder caught that day and fried ten minutes ago. Summer in Houston means torrential rain to walk around in with my boonie hat on and looking at the world while it rains, then finding my squirtgun to get people with umbrellas. I love summer when I have time off.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Slick on 27 May 2008, 14:46
GIVE ME INFORMATION I CAN USE TO MAKE MY SUMMER BETTER

TRONNOCON
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: DonInKansas on 27 May 2008, 15:26
Peet, I have no idea what a double-sided plunger has to do with summer.:)

Also, I am aware of the OWI.  Fortunately, I live in a small rural town where they don't worry about stuffs like that. :police:  At least until you start mowing the streets.........
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Scrambled Egg Machine on 27 May 2008, 15:54
That is a yo-yo gyroscope type thingy, I believe.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Gemmwah on 27 May 2008, 16:06
Diabolo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolo).
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Rolling20s on 28 May 2008, 09:18
Summer officially started for me when I fired up the grill and felt the cool slosh of good beer down my throat while doing so.

Summer will officially last until it's too damn cold out to do that. I love long summers.

P.S. I really want to try that jalepeno lemonade. We should have some coming up in the garden round-about the end of August, and that seems a perfect time to try it.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Ladybug on 28 May 2008, 11:52
One week/two exams left, and then summer vacation! I'm ridiculously exited, I get almost a month off before having to work for a month and then study for August exams. Last year I started working 2 days after my last exam, worked 7 weeks straight, and then spent a couple of weeks studying, so this year will be way better, no matter how crappy the weather might be.

Can't wait to go home (midnight sun and bright summer nights <3), relax, have a dishwasher available, not have to spend my days in a tiny dorm room, not have to cook dinner every day etc. I hope we get at least a little bit of warmth, because I want to hang out here and enjoy it:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/mariasha/DSC00609.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/mariasha/DSC00604-1.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/mariasha/DSC00605.jpg)

The pictures aren't huge, right? They're not supposed to be, I'm guessing it's only my cache messing with me.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: sean on 28 May 2008, 12:07
No your pictures are quite reasonably sized!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: carrotosaurus on 28 May 2008, 12:41
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/partyongarth/SchneiderandBrooklynerHopfenWeisse.jpg)
brooklyner-schneider hopfen weiss
is my new beverage of the summer.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Aimless on 05 Jun 2008, 09:38
I just got back home... summer in sthlm means so many wonderful things, but there are two things in particular I've really been longing for, and with which I shall fill up my summer.

1. Picnics in parks, in the middle of town, a hop and a skip from the water. I've a long list of picniccy foods to go through this summer, and an almost equally long list of beverages to enjoy... and damn me that jalapeño lemonade has just gone straight to the top of that list. It sounds DELICIOUS.

2. Morning runs. There were few things I missed during the cold, hard northern winter at uni as much as I missed being able to just wake up, pack a rucksack with brekkie, a towel, a frozen bottle of water, and a good book and then just go for a nice run in the sun, followed by a few hours roasting and reading in the park... and not come back home until well after lunch.

And, of course, summer means reuniting with friends, partying (outdoors!), and just relishing in that feeling of having all the TIME in the world... but mostly it's about the picnics and the jogging, for me.

Now, where can a guy find this brownie-pie recipe?? :o
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: thehollow on 05 Jun 2008, 10:00
Madison's got a great recreational ultimate frisbee league that I play in over the summer, and some of my best summer memories are tied to it. For $25 we get a summer's worth of ultimate, as well as free beer from one of the best brewpubs ever (the Great Dane... if you're ever in Madison for any reason, go there) after each game. It's real casual and not all that competitive, and to me nothing's better than playing ultimate with old high school buddies who I don't see much during the year and then downing some killer brews afterwards.

Free outdoor concerts at the UW union are one of my favorite things to do, it doesn't even have to be a good band and it's still worth it.

The only problem I have with summer is that I'm really sensitive to both heat and humidity, and most of the summer ends up being really uncomfortable for me. The days where there's a nice breeze and it's not muggy as hell are beautiful though.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Cernunnos on 05 Jun 2008, 14:42
what
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Post by: jhocking on 05 Jun 2008, 14:47
I am so fucking hot right now. It was cold yesterday. wtf
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lines on 05 Jun 2008, 16:05
It is unnaturally hot outside. It should not be this hot until July. I am going to melt. :-(
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Dissy on 05 Jun 2008, 19:11
It has been in the mid ninties all this week, and last, and today, it barely broke the 70s
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Post by: redglasscurls on 05 Jun 2008, 21:42
what
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Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: redglasscurls on 05 Jun 2008, 22:00
Everyone knows pepsi is handmade
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Post by: spidergland on 06 Jun 2008, 11:35
and ze classic 'ahhhh'

though how that could be refreshing is beyond me.
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Post by: Cernunnos on 06 Jun 2008, 12:15
that was a what of amazement. I am intrigued by this beverage.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: redglasscurls on 06 Jun 2008, 12:57
Summer drink!
"It's Lemony and Fucks You Up"
- 1 part lemonade of choice
- 2 parts sprite
- 2 shots of gin, or to taste.

I am not that picky when it comes to complexity of drinks.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: snalin on 06 Jun 2008, 13:01
Standing in the sun, juggling, and ocasionaly stroll over to the shop over the streat and buy ice creeeam.

Jummy!
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Post by: pwhodges on 06 Jun 2008, 15:09
It's raining again in England...
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Post by: Tom on 06 Jun 2008, 16:57
After a week of miserable cold winds and drizzle, Sydney has finally got back together with its hot and steamy friend the Sun. O, Winter you chaste season yet so far from pure.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Social Bacon on 06 Jun 2008, 17:10
It's an absolute scorcher today here in London, something like 32 degrees plus a stupid amount of humidity.
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Post by: Lines on 06 Jun 2008, 17:13
The only time I saw the thermometer today was around 6pm and it said it was 94 degrees. UGH.

But the internet says it's 84 degrees and it feels quite nice out. I wish it would stay like this on days I can't swim. (I can swim in an indoor pool whenever on campus, but that's just not right when it's summer.)
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: RedLion on 08 Jun 2008, 16:26
Today: 89 degrees, thunderstorms for the last 3 days, and oppressive humidity.

6 months ago: -10 degrees, 1 & 1/2 feet of snow.

Fuck you, Wisconsin.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 08 Jun 2008, 16:36
About an hour ago (roughly 6:30 P.M.) here in Vermont, it was eighty five degrees.  It's insanely humid and it's bugging me because I need to do recording stuff in my room, but I don't feel like having a heat stroke.
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Post by: Dimmukane on 08 Jun 2008, 18:01
Speaking of Vermont, Woodchuck's Apple Cider is really good in the summer.
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Post by: Stryc9Fuego on 10 Jun 2008, 12:38
It is 85 degrees Fahrenheit right now in Downtown Tampa. (http://www.fljud13.org/default.asp) Probably the coolest I remember it being all week. I can distinctly remember a couple of times it cresting 100.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: redglasscurls on 10 Jun 2008, 14:31
Has anyone got fireflies yet? It was 103 degrees F today and we STILL don't have any:(
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Post by: RedLion on 10 Jun 2008, 18:49
Ahh the weather today was absolutely amazing, and a welcome reprieve after a few days of thunderstorms, 90 degree weather and unbearable humidity. 75, with a warm breeze, and not a cloud in the sky. Days like today just make me euphoric. Though that was probably helped by the fact that I ran for 5 miles too.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: thehollow on 10 Jun 2008, 19:15
Ahh the weather today was absolutely amazing, and a welcome reprieve after a few days of thunderstorms, 90 degree weather and unbearable humidity. 75, with a warm breeze, and not a cloud in the sky. Days like today just make me euphoric. Though that was probably helped by the fact that I ran for 5 miles too.

yeah, southern WI had a beautiful day for the first time in a week or so. I was out cleaning my car for a few hours and then took a nice long walk through the nature conservancy by my house. It's really pretty and green this time of year, and the water in the stream was up a foot or two and it was great to just wade through it. My dog went with me and had fun sticking her head underwater trying to find some fish. It was a really awesome day.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: sean on 10 Jun 2008, 19:49
Has anyone got fireflies yet? It was 103 degrees F today and we STILL don't have any:(

I think I've seen one. But that was a few weeks ago now so I could have been imagining it.

Poor show Maryland, poor fucking show.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 10 Jun 2008, 21:32
We have fireflies!  Lots of 'em!  So many, in fact, they were hitting my windshield as I went eighty miles per hour on the interstate home!  I felt bad, because I really like fireflies.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: morca007 on 10 Jun 2008, 23:34
It is now officially summer, I am home from uni, and sipping homebrew beer. I don't even care that  it was overcast and gray today.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Lines on 11 Jun 2008, 06:31
Yesterday wasn't too hot and there was a lovely cool breeze, so the weather was beautiful. But I know it's summer because the cicadas have come.

I was driving on the highway (eastern side of the city) and all the sudden a huge ass bug hit my windshield. And then so did another. And another. I thought they were gigantic bees at first, but then the chirping/hissing drowned out my radio and then I knew they were cicadas. Sadly, they weren't the awesome jewel-like blue ones with orange eyes, they were the ugly yellow ones. And driving 70mph and being hit by giant bugs right and left is not fun.

For reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada), if you've never been lucky enough to experience the joys of cicadas.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: jhocking on 11 Jun 2008, 07:17
hee hee I still make fun of my fiancee because she didn't know the word cicada. She thought they were called locusts, and didn't believe me when I explained that's a different insect.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: spidergland on 11 Jun 2008, 07:20
The weather has been fantastic here.  27oC the last two days.  The last two days where I've had exams.  Now I'm free for a few days and its clouded up.  I mean what are the chances?

However, I have made the best summer cocktail (http://photos-129.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v250/197/2/61309129/n61309129_34999994_5626.jpg).  Not the best picture but I think you get the picture.  Hot reds into cool blues.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Dimmukane on 19 Jun 2008, 06:45
So yesterday I watched a new episode of Metalocalypse, played Dungeons and Dragons 4e, drank a couple Grolsch, smoked a bit, and watched Be Kind Rewind.  One of the best days I've had this summer.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Peet on 19 Jun 2008, 08:06
I was at a tournement the other day and we recieved the following announcement.

For health and safety reasons please do not open the fire doors. There is a swarm of bees outside.

Flying things with too many legs come out at summer. Also, it's very hot (http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v284/111/29/507686643/n507686643_967257_7257.jpg).
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 19 Jun 2008, 08:12
Summer means Solarfest! (http://www.solarfest.org/)  Hooray!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Plasticity on 19 Jun 2008, 14:00
I was going to do work outside today but it is very hot outside today so I am drinking lemonade instead.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 19 Jun 2008, 14:13
Man, it's fuckin' rained all week.  I would rejoice if it was finally eighty again.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: redglasscurls on 19 Jun 2008, 14:38
I want to go to that solarfest thing so bad! Too bad it is nearly 9 hours away from here:(
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 19 Jun 2008, 15:19
 :-(  It's mad fun.  I went last year and they had a band of cellists and a drummer playing metal songs through distorted cellos.  It was one of the most bad-ass sounding things ever.  They played a Slayer cover and a Metallica cover, and all the young-ins got mosh pits going to the faster songs.

They also did the only good version of "BYOB" by System of a Down I've heard.  Mainly because it was instrumental and played on distorted cellos.

Plus, Vermonters are really nice people, and the vibes are good.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Caleb on 19 Jun 2008, 15:39
I have not done much yet for summer fun.

The heat and humidity have forced me out of my non-air conditioned apartment so I have been jogging a bit.

I live near Plattsburgh, NY now so the area is beautiful and excellent for media projects.  I just gotta get the camcorder out and stop being lazy.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Barmymoo on 22 Jun 2008, 14:10
On Wednesday we will have our first official picnic this summer. I'm so excited! On Friday we ate ice cream from the tub and some pilfered spoons in the park, but that was impromptu. It isn't summer til you've had an official picnic.

Also, monsoon season has started again. Yesterday it rained so hard I had to carry the cat inside, and today a branch blew off the tree and crushed the place where the car luckily wasn't. Yay for climate change!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Emaline on 22 Jun 2008, 14:55
It occurred to me that I haven't said anything really about one of the main things I love about this town in summer.


Every Saturday morning we have a farmer's market. It takes place right up the street from my house. It's is pretty damn amazing. Yesterday morning, I bought homemade jam, as well as organic raspberries for hellsa cheap. And there is always this lady selling awesome patcholi soap, and lotion. And an alpaca lady! Sometimes she brings her alpacas with her, but usually she just sells yarn, and the stuff to make yarn. Yesterday the artistry guild was up there, and they did felting, as well as spinning demonstrations. I love our farmer's market.


There are also all sorts of festivals. Which are always interesting.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: imapiratearg on 22 Jun 2008, 17:44
I live near Plattsburgh, NY now so the area is beautiful and excellent for media projects.  I just gotta get the camcorder out and stop being lazy.

Oh man, I used to live in Plattsburgh, NY.  It totally sucked.  I do like that Adirondak area, though.  It's beautiful up there.  Especially around all the lake resort towns and stuff.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: jhocking on 22 Jun 2008, 17:45
There are also all sorts of festivals. Which are always interesting.

Street fests are good except when they suck. F'rinstance, today my fiancee and I went to Taste of Randolph (http://www.jamfests.com/tasteofrandolph/). We probably should have been leery of the $10 each to get in, but we were curious.

It sucked. It sucked hard. We basically spent an hour and $28 for me to get a so-so mango smoothie (entrance fee, plus the El, plus the cost of the drink itself.)
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Barmymoo on 23 Jun 2008, 01:46
The worst thing about summer in this country (other than the appalling weather) is the BUGS. Man I hate summer insects. Little red spider things all over the place, flies in the house, bees (which are in decline and actually pretty cute but the cats try to eat them which is a big danger) and basically all kinds of nasty. I really, really hate insects.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: morca007 on 23 Jun 2008, 20:48
Yesterday I went for a bit of a trek with a friend, following a trail which abruptly ended, we decided to go with what looked like a path (little more than somewhere one or two people had walked) through the tall grass (roughly my head height, so 6"), and after about an hour of this, I remembered: I like summer, summer does not like me.
Holy hell I hate hayfever. It's bad enough most of the year, but god-damn if for the past two days I haven't been sneezing and oozing more phlegm than I have in the week before. That, and wearing shorts in tall grass/Stinging nettles in a bad idea.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Oli on 24 Jun 2008, 12:28
I am going camping on a wee island for two weeks on Saturday. This is exciting! We went two years ago, as documented in this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,11490.msg349225.html).

Summer!
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: vegkitkat on 24 Jun 2008, 12:59
I got my first sunburn this weekend. It is officially summer, and I am officially stupid for forgetting to put on sunscreen.
Title: Re: Summer Stuffs!
Post by: Ladybug on 24 Jun 2008, 13:19
I regretted leaving my wool beanie in Trondheim (where I live the rest of the year), when a friend and I went "hiking" today. It's been an hour since I got home, and my extremities are still freezing.

Summer!

(We have had two days where I could sit on the veranda wearing anything less than a t-shirt and jeans in the 18 days I've been home. I managed to get a sunburn one of them.)