Stopped in the convenience store yesterday to buy a cold drink and was surprised to find three new flavors of Mountain Dew in the cooler!
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Beach Weather
Summer is definitely here and I’m ready for some beach time. I really need to feel the hot sand between my toes and smell the salty ocean air at least once each year to keep my sanity.
My family has always gone to the Jersey shore and we’ve spent hundreds of weekends on the beach at Atlantic City. I love everything about it – from the boardwalk to the carnival rides to the mini golf and the fishing on the pier.
If you know anything about Jersey Shore hotels you have probably seen the Morey Resorts at Wildwood. They are famous for their collection of hotels and the variety of accommodations from beachfront luxury to family budget properties within a block to the boardwalk or beach. If you are looking for things to do in New Jersey, the beach is one of the top family destinations.
This year there are going to be free concerts at Morey’s Piers throughout the month of July featuring the Radio Disney Summer Concert Series. There are lots of events scheduled for families with kids of all ages, so if you have a chance to go you should check out the Wildwood events and enjoy the beach this summer with all it has to offer.
Frappuccino Fan
Now that it’s so hot the idea of coffee other than first thing in the morning just doesn’t sound all that appealing. In hot weather I want something cold, so I decided to give the refrigerated Starbucks frappuccinos a try. They come in three flavors:
- coffee
- mocha
- vanilla
I used to see a strawberry flavor at the grocery store but I’ve looked at both Publix and Kroger this week and couldn’t find them. I wonder if they discontinued the strawberry completely or if the stores just needed to make more shelf room for all the other new flavored drinks?
I bought a coffee flavored one last night and have to say that it was quite refreshing when very cold – but drink it quick because when the chill wears off it’s not so good.
Brazil
I have some great stories about Brazil from people I know who used to live there or have gone there on vacation. I was even invited to tour the Brazalian embassy in Washington DC, as the legal administrator to Brazil’s Ambassador was married to a co-worker and we all became good friends while we lived in the DC area.
She would show us pictures of her very very very large family in Brazil and their house on a huge plantation. They were considered well off as they owned several hundred acres of prime farmland, yet they did not have indoor plumbing in the house and they did not have a telephone on the property – and this was a recent as 1990. If you wanted to make a phone call you had to travel to the nearest town – about 200 miles away – and stand in line to use the onepay phone mounted on a pole in the center of town.
With the advent of cell phones and satellites, they do have both phones and TV in the house now, but they still have many primitive limitations and I find it amazing that with today’s technology so many people still live with the challenge of basics like getting clean water and protecting your children from attacks by wild animals like crocodiles and panthers.
Garden’s Bounty
What a thrill to pick fresh vegetables from my container garden this year. I haven’t had a garden for 4 years, so I was determined to do a little of it this year somehow – and containers proved the answer.
There are so many trees around my house that there is no place to put a traditional garden and have it get enough sunlight. So I bought some large pots and put in two tomato plants, 7 green pepper plants and 1 jalenpeno plant. Then I strategically placed each pot in a place that would get sun and rain.
They are doing marvelously and we are picking from them daily now. Time to stock up on bacon so we can have our BLTs!