summers...weeds and all

WHOOOOA!! is what i read true?!?! the last time i posted was December 13, 09!! ok, i really need to get back to this, right? sorry about that!


anyway i thought i'd share a little thought on summers...especially the ones that i have experienced (unless for some reason you want me to talk about YOUR summers). i've grown up my whole life in southwest michigan where the weather is...well...to say the least unpredictable. living near lake michigan can make things real fun! recently we have had a series of intense storms that have taken down trees and telephone poles like crazy. whereas last summer the temps never went above eighty. i was thinking about this on the way home from work and started asking my self, what makes summers so special?? one would think it would be the nice weather which (in theory) brings everyone outside to enjoy the earth. or that it would be the fact that (again, in theory) there is no school. these are nice things of course but then there are always those OTHER things that seem to be ruining our summers...the weeds.

yes, i said weeds. i work 20 hours a week in harbert, mi pulling up weeds, putting weeds in wheelbarrows, dumping the weeds in the woods, and coming back for more weeds. it seems that all i do is pull up weeds, weeds, and more weeds. i've done it in heat, i've done it in rain, i nearly got hit by lightning last week pulling weeds. why does a perfectly good summer have to be ruined with WEEDS!

now i will connect these two rather random paragraphs.

i think the reason that summer is special is because it represents the best part of our lives. everyone remembers the summers best. and they remember the good parts of summer. people look back and laugh at all the fun things that happen...but for some reason they never remember pulling weeds.

in our lives i believe we will have troubles and hard times. most likely we will all be stuck with a job, or a person, or something that we don't like and we won't have a choice in the matter. there will be fights, frustrations, hurt feelings, and all sorts of unplanned complications along the way but we won't remember them in the end!

that is why i like summer so much. it reminds me that i won't remember the weeds.


peace

davis