Are
you ready? One moment the sun is out, we’re wearing short sleeved shirts and
the next minute it’s snowing and freezing rain and our kids are home from
school. I’ve been assured by many professionals that summer is coming.
Open
water fishing season opened two weeks early this year. Docks have already
started going in on all lakes in the region. Last weekend, there were trucks
and boat trailers at Raymond beach and Crescent Lake boat launch. Sights like
that give me hope that summer is coming and we once again will abandon our
sweaters and blankets to bask in the sun’s warm glow. We will float in the
water and hear the laughter of children as they splash.
Lawnmowers
will be tuning up, getting ready for the acres of lawn they will mow as soon as
the lawn grows.
Our
flowers are starting to poke through the ground and that little cut of green in
the brown gardens gives me more hope that summer is coming. Every day someone
posts a picture of their newly bloomed flowers. It was first my friends in New
Jersey, then Connecticut and now one person from Windham posted a picture of
her first crocus of the season.
I’m
starting to thumb through last year’s camping guides looking for some place fun
to camp with the family or alone, if I have to. I’ve started planning family
vacations and Scouting trips for my son’s troop. We live in Maine so we have to
pack as much summer into the three months we have to give us enough memories to
last all of next winter.
My
summer planning starts next weekend at the camping and RV show in Portland at
the Portland Sports Complex on Warren Avenue. I can’t wait to see all that
Maine has to offer and to walk through the new campers to see the latest in RV
luxury. The fun is just beginning and I for one can’t wait.
Although
I might hold off on the swimming for a few more days.
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