How can you not love summer? For me it is the best season of the entire year. There are just so many things you can do in the summer. You can enjoy the outdoors, whether it is out of town or in your back yard, you can have lovely bar-b-ques on the back deck, or go for walks around the city without fear of frost bite or slipping on ice.
I was asked to distill my love for summer into a top three list. I immediately rattled off three things I love about summer. I then immediately amended the list. I soon realized that I needed some time to think carefully about this list. I could easily come up with the top 20 things I love about summer and with little trouble craft a top 10 list. A top 3 things I love about summer time was going to be difficult.
After a week I was able come up with a top three list. My top three would be 1. cooking on my Big Green Egg BBQ, 2. spending time on my Seadoo, and 3. gardening. I tried to pick three diverse activities that in total would really capture my love of summer time. There are other things I love about summer but these are my favorite activities.
Cooking is a favorite hobby of mine, and I take every chance I can to attend any cooking class or watching cooking shows on HGTV or The Food Network. I just love the dinner and wine classes that are given at the LCBO (liquor and wine store) downtown. So I am forever looking up recipes and trying new things out. About 5 years ago my mother contributed towards a house warming gift for me, and it turned out that my partner and I got a Big Green Egg for our bar-b-que. We've never looked back, and I have to say that bar-b-quing with the Big Green Egg is a gourmet chef's bbq dream! I'm not a gourmet chef yet, but with this charcoal smoker/convection oven/bbq, I can smoke, roast, bake, grill - you name it, I can cook it on the big green egg!
My next top three item is being out on the lake at our cottage on my seadoo. I've always loved the water growing up, and I tended to be out on the water anytime I had the chance. But now that I've grown up, bought my own cottage, and bought my partner and I each a seadoo, that is where I spend most of my cottage days. From the time I haul them to the cottage and take off the sea-doo covers, to the time they are packed up and taken home for storage, they are barely given a rest.
Gardens have always been a part of my life. Ever since I was little and followed my mother around with the weed pail it just seems that I enjoy gardening and the beauty my gardens provide more and more each year. I follow the perennial and wild English garden philosophy, so even though the amount of space that my gardens take up expands every year, I still spend the same amount of time every year doing the necessary weeding and pruning and re-arranging. I have gardens both at the house and the cottage, so I have no shortage of time in the garden come summer.
I pondered my list of the top three things I love about summer time for a while. However, once the list was finalized I was certain that it encapsulated perfectly my love of summer. It includes three different activities that collectively mean summer time to me. So whether I have a spatula in my hand or I am pulling off Seadoo covers, or I am holding a garden spade, I am bound to have a smile on my face.
I was asked to distill my love for summer into a top three list. I immediately rattled off three things I love about summer. I then immediately amended the list. I soon realized that I needed some time to think carefully about this list. I could easily come up with the top 20 things I love about summer and with little trouble craft a top 10 list. A top 3 things I love about summer time was going to be difficult.
After a week I was able come up with a top three list. My top three would be 1. cooking on my Big Green Egg BBQ, 2. spending time on my Seadoo, and 3. gardening. I tried to pick three diverse activities that in total would really capture my love of summer time. There are other things I love about summer but these are my favorite activities.
Cooking is a favorite hobby of mine, and I take every chance I can to attend any cooking class or watching cooking shows on HGTV or The Food Network. I just love the dinner and wine classes that are given at the LCBO (liquor and wine store) downtown. So I am forever looking up recipes and trying new things out. About 5 years ago my mother contributed towards a house warming gift for me, and it turned out that my partner and I got a Big Green Egg for our bar-b-que. We've never looked back, and I have to say that bar-b-quing with the Big Green Egg is a gourmet chef's bbq dream! I'm not a gourmet chef yet, but with this charcoal smoker/convection oven/bbq, I can smoke, roast, bake, grill - you name it, I can cook it on the big green egg!
My next top three item is being out on the lake at our cottage on my seadoo. I've always loved the water growing up, and I tended to be out on the water anytime I had the chance. But now that I've grown up, bought my own cottage, and bought my partner and I each a seadoo, that is where I spend most of my cottage days. From the time I haul them to the cottage and take off the sea-doo covers, to the time they are packed up and taken home for storage, they are barely given a rest.
Gardens have always been a part of my life. Ever since I was little and followed my mother around with the weed pail it just seems that I enjoy gardening and the beauty my gardens provide more and more each year. I follow the perennial and wild English garden philosophy, so even though the amount of space that my gardens take up expands every year, I still spend the same amount of time every year doing the necessary weeding and pruning and re-arranging. I have gardens both at the house and the cottage, so I have no shortage of time in the garden come summer.
I pondered my list of the top three things I love about summer time for a while. However, once the list was finalized I was certain that it encapsulated perfectly my love of summer. It includes three different activities that collectively mean summer time to me. So whether I have a spatula in my hand or I am pulling off Seadoo covers, or I am holding a garden spade, I am bound to have a smile on my face.
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