Sun on Your Face

It really feels good simply to feel the sun on your face. t’s probably a good thing that we are not allowed to burn leaves anymore.     But burning leaves in the fall  was one of my favorite things.  You didn’t have to pay anyone to rake your leaves, there were plenty of volunteers as long as we were allowed to rake the lease into the street and burn them. On certain Saturdays and evenings during peak raking season there would be a smoke hanging over the entire neighborhood.      Somehow the smoke never seemed overpowering or unpleasant no matter how thick the haze almost like the pleasant smell of a grampa or great uncle smoking a pipe

My Favorite Drink

Heading copy When I think of the times in my life when I have most enjoyed drinking something I can generate a list of at least ten different drinks from ten different times in ten different situations.   Sometimes there is nothing better that a drink of ice cold water whether it be slurping from an upright sunblessedfarm.com steel drinking fountain in the hallway in junior high after gym or kneeling in the dry grass and gulping from a garden hose in the dead heat of summer as a kid or chugging half and dumping the other half over your head after working in the yard.  Another favorite is cupping my hands under the bathroom sink in the middle of the night after way-too-salty Asian or Pizza takeout.