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What would you add? By the lovely Grace Farris.
P.S. Summer clothes and simple pleasures.
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Lovely list :) I’d add enjoy stone fruit!
Aperol spritz on the beach, coffee on the dock, burgers, lobster rolls, cuddling on the beach, watching the stars, playing cards with family, roasting s’mores, swimming in the lake, relaxing on a floaty, watermelon salad, corn on the cob, fresh blueberries and peaches!
Pimm’s cup with fresh cucumbers and mint from my garden
Fresh corn on the cob on the grill
Eating an open faced shrimp sandwich on an island in the fjord (Oslo)
Fjord swimming and river swimming as much as possible
Gelato
Visiting Little Free Libraries to exchange summer reads
Over the weekend I ate the first tomato of the season from our garden, and while at the pool with my daughter and her friends I indulged them and dove off the diving board again and again and again and didn’t care what anyone thought!
I love this Molly!
Going for a jog, then a dip in the ocean afterwards.
Sex in the afternoon
Going to the farmer’s market for flowers, vegetables and brownies
Wearing my new jumpsuit to cocktails in town
Eating all the summer fruits I can get my hands on
Plenty of iced lattes, fresh off the vine tomatoes and of the husk corn, and floating on an inner tube on a hot day!
Eating juicy fruits outside while soaking up the sunlight
When a Summer Rain Shower is within sight, I find a reason to do something outside. It may be clipping a few flowers or checking to see if the garden needs some hoe work. Today I cut some of the last spears of asparagus and pulled some weeds. Being outside keeps me very aware of the passing and approaching seasons. It is now time to let the asparagus bed ‘go to seed’.
The front-edge of a rain also gives me a wonderful chance to enjoy petrichlor; nature’s perfume.
Haha–lovely, achievable joys of summer! Love Grace so much!
I’ve done all of these this year, some multiple times already, I must be doing life right!
Tending to my tomato plants (grown from seed by a most anxious gardener) and filling up the old tin bath with the garden hose to cool my feet.
Oh, that sounds perfect!
Knitting under the pergola.
Ditto – under the pop up canopy!
My mini mountain of dish clothes grows each day.
– Walk barefoot
– Have a grilled cheese by a swimming pool
– Spend a day inside in pyjamas even (especially) if it’s sunny and everyone is out doing stuff
– Watch Wimbledon whilst eating strawberries and cream
All My Mothers by Joanna Glenn 💙💚
Eating something (lettuce, cucumbers, herbs, berries, zucchinis, apples) from the garden for every meal, bike rides, evening swims, farm visits, reading in the sun, do-nothing days.
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