{"id":2136,"date":"2016-08-24T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2016-09-23T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:06:52","slug":"n-multiple-joys-summer-turning-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/ponte-vedra\/n-multiple-joys-summer-turning-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018n That:\u00a0The multiple joys of summer, turning into fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mims Cushing<\/em>
\nmail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Can it be true? Can summer be almost, sort of, kind of over? Up North the official sign of fall is Labor Day. Ummmm. Feel the breeze. Down here? No. It\u2019s still roasting for a couple of months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some would argue that in Florida we enjoy another month or two of hot weather after Labor Day. (Is \u201cenjoy\u201d the right word?) Up North we\u2019d complain that summers were never long enough; it\u2019s finally warm by July 1. Down here, by July 1, it\u2019s been hot since May, so we\u2019re sure fall must be coming up soon, but cool weather is months away. Summers are hard for those who perspire even in air conditioned movies. When Labor Day pops up in Florida and wraps itself around our mind, autumn cool is not a comin\u2019 in. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sam, my ex-husband who was hell-bent on moving to Florida in 1990, knew I struggled in Connecticut when the temps went above 80 degrees. He was smart. He moved us to Florida in one of the months we call \u201cThe Reason We Moved to Florida.\u201d And one of those months is November. By November we are dry cleaning our sweaters and wearing them. Everywhere. Woolly, cozy, fleecy, cashmere-y and delicious. From LL Bean or Land\u2019s End. Big bulky ones, fine textured ones. Sweaters are one reason to crave fall weather. Taking longer walks when the weather is apple crisp is another. Opening windows \u2014 well, we barely do that down here.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there are good things about summer that should be honored. I\u2019ve come up with many: strawberries, raspberries, apricots, grapes, figs, cherries, watermelon, cantaloupe, blackberries, honeydews, gooseberries, peaches, pluots, plums, nectarines, boysenberries, … and did I mention peaches? I have dared to eat a peach several times this summer, and yum is the word. We can sometimes get summer fruits year \u2018round \u2014 but they are cheaper in summer and more delicious than in January. You can also get many of them in the freezer aisle, and we are told they are probably fresher when frozen than when they dribble to us on trucks and trains.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetables don\u2019t stack up as treats for me, but great tomatoes (I know they are fruits) and wonderful corn are high up on the list, plus arugula, cauliflower, cukes, eggplant. You can count kale and mustard greens as summer veggies, but in my book, they are spawn of the devil. I try to choke them down once in awhile just to see if my tastebuds have changed. Not happening. Okra (okrae?) are slimy little fellers. Peppers, spinach, summer squash, peas. A couple of years ago I made a casserole with English peas and my friend, an adult, spent 10 minutes picking out every single pea with her fork and putting them on the side of her plate to ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s one more thing I consider the ultimate summer treat, even though you can get them year \u2018round: salty caramel ice cream bars. Salty caramel \u2014that\u2019s \u201ccar-a-mel;\u201d please do not pronounce it \u201ccarmel\u201d\u2014 is the taste du jour. Caramel is in some brands of coffees, cookies, cakes, pies, pretzels, smoothies and biscotti that you dip in coffee. I try to convince myself caramel biscotti are a fruit or a vegetable, so I don\u2019t feel too guilty eating them. Shamefully wrong of me. These little monkeys are tasty in summer, fall, winter, spring \u2026 morningtime, eveningtime, suppertime, anytime. Eat one while you\u2019re waiting for marshmallows to melt on your chocolate for \u2018smores. <\/span><\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t really think summer was all about eating fruits and veggies, did you?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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