And there’s nothing you can say or do about it. Who says so? Snowbird says so.
In honor of this declaration I am unofficially naming this Friday, July 23 as “Snowbird Says ‘Eat Some Ice Cream’ Day.” And in honor of this occasion I am taking the day off. I will stay home all day, draw and eat ice cream. The weather man says it will be a good day for it. Scattered thunderstorms, highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 60s… that falls into my Ice Cream Weather Guidelines just perfectly. So does “partly cloudy,” “chance of snow” and “hot and humid.” There really is no better time than anytime to have a gloriously creamy, melt-in-your-mouthy hands-all-sticky treat. With chocolate jimmies on top, please. I think on Friday I may do a butterfinger blizzard or a chocolate-vanilla twist in a cone, dipped in chocolate sauce with a perfect point at the top. Something in soft-serve or frozen yogurt. (Gosh, don’t I sound like an advertising copywriter? Sorry.)
Now drawing–drawing is task best done on rainy days, in my opinion. Whenever the rain came down in my childhood town the crayons came out with the construction paper and those “just add water” magic coloring books. I wish I was in possession of some of my old coloring books. My mom has a stash of “Katie’s Art” stuffed somewhere between old halloween decorations and birth certificates, probably in the deacon’s bench. That’s where it’s been since the day I created it. It probably all has that old paper library smell now, and falls apart with the touch of a finger. So old am I.
Today’s nostalgia has been brought to you by a few stolen scoops full of vanilla fudge twirl ice cream at the tail end of my Me-n-Maggie lunch hour. Oh, yummers. I can’t believe I have forgotten how much I love, love love ice cream this summer. What have I been doing?
