Summer Tease

This evening I'm sitting here, windows and doors opened wide, enjoying 80+ degree weather!! Oh, yes, a summer tease is here!!!  It was mid 70's yesterday, will be 80+ tomorrow and Wednesday.........mmmmm.....then we drop to the low 40's with rain in the forecast and possibly some overnight snow. Snow? In May?  That's what they say - we can only hope they're wrong!

We had a nice trip today to report in at the Career Center, as mandated by Unemployment. It was a good day to get out for a drive. Now that hubby has his mandatory workshop over with, checking in only takes about five minutes.

I reminisced last week about the weekly trips "to town" in my childhood......today's trip to Chillicothe brings back more memories. Chillicothe was a whopping 30 miles from the farm, so we only made that trip a few times a year. But I could usually count on getting there before school started. Honestly, I can't really remember what stores we would frequent there in our search for school clothes......I know there was a JC Penny, but maybe it had more stock than the local one. I vaguely remember getting shoes up there. It was  always such a big deal just to go. They had a Woolworth's on the square, lunch counter and all. As I got older and was into music, we had an annual trip in the spring for District Music Contest at Chillicothe High School. We were on our own for lunch, and we always crossed our fingers that we had enough of a break in the middle of the day that we could hike to the square and have lunch. There was a restaurant called The Copper Kettle that had killer tenderloins! Many students from participating schools had the same idea, so occasionally we would have to eat at Woolworth's if the wait line was too long at Copper Kettle. It was a real disappointment my senior year when District Contest was moved to Trenton.......it's almost 60 miles away, so I'd never been there. And there was no Copper Kettle.

I was fortunate enough to attend State Music Contest on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus my sophomore and junior years as accompanist. THAT was an experience, let me tell you! My junior year we had a fun music teacher who had just graduated from college - she thought we should all see the columns on the MU Campus (the only remnants left from a campus building fire years ago). I remember her double parking and staying in her car in case a campus cop happened by while the rest of us ran out and took photos by the columns. I was so sad when she left after the school year and left us with a not-so-fun music teacher for my senior year.

Time marches on, and I'm so glad I have those good memories.

If you're having "summer tease" weather this week, enjoy it!