summer time favorites

i have been feeling a bit nostalgic lately. probably because my cousin and i were talking at the funeral the other day(sorry to mention this again)and we realized that the family is getting smaller and smaller since none of these kids we have are reproducing. (sigh) and then i was thinking of the wonderful summer days i used to have. my grandparents lived on a small wisconsin lake and i used to spend so much time in that lake, i was a prune. and then i thought about the fun days we had sitting down by the lake,and my grandpa cooking on the rotisserie over the hot coals. i can still hear that rotisserie motor spinning a chicken or a roast and the delicious aromas wafting through the air. the big watermelon sliced into thick pieces, with juice dripping down my chin onto my swim suit. who cared? i could just jump in the lake and wash off! the smell of the beach towels hanging on the line, all fresh and crisp. the silence of the house, when someone would ask me to run up to the fridge to grab something. no one would be in the house and it was so quiet except for the cuckoo clock ticking away in the living room. the silence would sometimes give me the creeps and i would grab the item out of the fridge and run as fast as i could back down to the lake and to the people and noise. sometimes i wish i could go back to those days, for perhaps just one afternoon.