Hot fun in the Summertime...
So the temperatures here in the Northeast have been the same or higher than those in Louisiana, where one of our kids is living. It does bring me back to summer lazy days, and when no one had air conditioning, so everyone's windows were open, and you could hear all of the folks in the neighborhood. You knew what was on television (and we only had TVs in our living rooms or dens in those days), smelled what was for dinner, and knew when it was bedtime. You knew who drank coffee, and who drank tea, and who drank! We lived our lives in semi-privacy. Stoop sitting was the norm. No one had a deck, and if you were lucky enough to have a pool (my parents' first one went in when I was already married...), you had a single ladder in. We went down the beach for evening swims at high tide. If you had a small sailboat, you pulled it down the street to put it in the water and catch the Sound breezes. Mom, when we were little, brought us the 4 or so block...