Summer begins at 11:54 AM EST today. I must admit I am not a big fan of summer especially summer weather. I don’t like hot and humid weather and being fair skinned I try to avoid the sun. I am more of a fall-winter-spring person. The summer here in Ohio is starting out as I wish the entire summer would be- high of 73, sunny and not humid- again not a fan of the sunny part but as long as it doesn’t get more than around 70 degrees I am good . There are a lot of great summer songs out there more than enough to fill the 95 days until Autumn. When I think of summer songs I think first of The Beach Boys- I have to start the summer with a Beach Boys song. “California Girls” was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love and appeared on The Beach Boys Summer Days [And Summer Nights!!} album in 1965. The lead vocalist on “California Girls” is Mike Love. The single was released in the middle of July 1965 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard singles chart. In 2011 Rolling Stone Magazine ranked it at #72 on their 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time list. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists it as one of their 500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll.
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It is now 11:54 a.m. Am loving the summer. It’s sunny and beautiful out there. This song rocks. Looking forward to your summer song feature.
Enjoy the summer! Hope you get the weather up there that you are wanting! It is beautiful here today too- was raining a bit this morning but that is all gone now- enough rain!!
Thanks Hans. If it would just stay this way for more than one day in a row… Yes, the rain can stay away for a bit.
we can do without all this rain- i have been cutting grass every 6-7 days- like last summer- in the past june- july -august a couple times a month but with this rain it grows like mad!
Last year there wasn’t much cutting needed, you’re right.
11:54 in MI I see your timestamp says 10:54
It is 11:57 now here- don’t know why it would have said 10:54…hmmmm… I have a question maybe you can answer- how can you schedule a post to publish? Say if I wanted to post something at 2pm but I wasn’t going to be around to do it- is there a way to do that? I think there is but I am clueless..
I haven’t tried to schedule one yet, so I don’t know. I can try to find out for you.
I have messed around with it but it doesn’t seem to work I must be doing something wrong.
this is the youtube from WP: https://youtu.be/_tpcHN6ZtKM I haven’t tried it yet though.
Thanks! I will look give it a look!
I did notice on the youtube, at the bottom of the screen it shows how your time zone compares to the one WP is using. If you know your time is “off” as I think it may be because of what you said about the time stamp for my response, you can change your time zone in your settings under “my site” tab.
Thanks I will look into that…
Gotta love me some beach Boys during summer!
The Beach Boys and summer- I can’t think of any other groups or artists that make me think right away of a season.
I used to always think they were surfers. But, they were anything but. Although ironically one of them drowned later on.
I think Dennis -who drowned was the only surfer.. Brian sure wasn’t- did you ever see the Saturday Night Live piece where they tried to get Brian out in the ocean?
Ah ok I stand corrected. I didn’t realise any of them were. No I haven’t seen that piece. I imagine Brian wasn’t too keen to set foot in the ocean?
it was in the mid 70’s Brian wasn’t in good physical or mental shape at the time he looked scared to death.
Great way to crack Summer. Love this song. I am fair-skinned, too.
I am not a beach person- how close are you to the ocean? If I lived right by it I wouldn’t be spending time on it- I burn easily.
Central NC. Three hours from the beach. Three hours from the mountains.
Yeah. I can’t tan, despite having NA blood in my line and really dark hair (that refuses to gray and I’m nearly 53). All I do is burn and peel.
Is your area flooding?
There are a few areas flooding and they are afraid if a lot more rain comes there will be more.. luckily where we live it would take a flood of biblical proportions to get us– but we do get water in the basement if we get too much rain in a short period of time- … i never tan either its burn baby burn. even staying out of the sun as much as i can-still had skin cancer last year but luckily it was the highly curable type. so i watch it as far as sun goes…
Wow. That must have been scary. I had a classmate (DL Examiner) that had to have a chunk cut out of his back, just above his left shoulder blade. I worked with two state troopers in the 90s that had a battle for their very lives with melanoma. Both were the red-headed, freckled types. One had a huge chunk taken out of the center of his back & nearly died. The other (Marine veteran), his melanoma got into his blood stream & he wound up @ Duke hospital in an experimental T-cell therapy program. They both survived but, by the skin of their teeth. The first trooper was a jokester…great sense of humor. After his ordeal, he said “If you ever drive by my house and see me ‘laying out in the sun’, stop & come get me. I don’t ‘sun bathe’. Somebody’s done shot my ass…’cause that is the ONLY way I would be laying in my own yard.” 😆
One of my blogging friends schedules her 3:00 AM posts every day, but I have no idea how. Filosofa’s Word, if you need help. She’s from Ohio too.
The Turtles exude summer for me, and Fever Tree’s “San Francisco Girl” reminds me of summer; I first heard it an an outdoor concert in Vancouver, BC and it blew me away live. I don’t think I wss tripping, but it made me feel like I was.
Will have to look that song up- SF Girl..
Perfect song for summer…I also think of the Lovin Spoonful’s Summer in the City.
I have that one on my list! One of my favorites.
I thought you lived in Pittsburgh as you follow their sports teams, correct?
I live an hour from Pittsburgh- yes I have followed the Pittsburgh teams my entire life.