I thought NEXT weekend was Memorial Day weekend so I guess I’m in a bit of a fog, mentally. I dreamed about fried pickles for some reason last night, too.
We’ve had 2.56 inches of rain in the last 72 hours & it should rain the rest of the day, overnight & into Saturday. This is ‘drought busting’ and we need it. People who rented cabins for the weekend and/or planned on outdoor activities (river float trips, hiking, etc.) are going to be very disappointed.
I grew up on cement in Milwaukee, but my Grandparents retired early and lived on Big Silver Lake in Washara County, about a 4 hour drive. A lot of times Dad was working odd late-night shifts, so we’d be asleep in our beds, and when we woke up we were ‘magically’ at Grandma’s! How did they do that?
I can only remember a handful of times that the lake was warm enough for swimming at the end of May - but we’d be in the lake all day anyway!
It was the official Kick-Off to Summer. Yay! Mom would take Sis and I for our ‘Pixie’ haircuts right before Memorial Day, which was pretty smart - she didn’t have to deal with our hair at all in the Summer. We were both waterlogged most of the time, anyway. ;)
Simple pleasures and happy memories.