Sweet, Sweet Summertime...

The living is pretty damn easy right now, I tell you. Here's my summertime to-do list:

• Ride my bike everywhere so much that the battery on my car actually dies from lack of use
• Make every possible incarnation of a burger
• Lay in the grass with Beeper and watch the clouds, naming what they look like
• Sit on the backsteps and smell the moon flowers in bloom at sunset
• Keep a steady stream of refridgerator pickles on hand at all times--see that recipe here
• Pop open a cold bottle champagne in the back yard with friends everytime we get together--as the Europeans do all summer
• Have a breakfast picnic, a lunch picnic and supper picnic
• Go camping at a new State Park where I have never been...as well as camp again at the lovely Split Rock State Park on Lake Superior's north shore
• Make homemade raspberry chocolate chip ice cream (and then smoosh a scoop between chocolate chip cookies)--see the recipe here
• Eat dinner al fresco on the flagstone patio we put in, on the table Mr Beeper built, as much as the weather will permit
• Visit the farmer's market weekly for more cucumbers, peppers, greens, corn and beans---and whatever else may strike our fancy and is in season
• Go to the drive-in movie theater with Beeper in his jammies, some cold beer in the cooler, and a basket of treats
• Eat tomatoes sun-warmed from the vine in our backfence kitchen garden with fresh mozzarella and basil and toasted pine nuts
• Make some blubarb (blueberry + rhubarb) jam, as well as some raspberry-jalapeno jam from locally grown berries

What sort of plans do you have for summer?