Post #160293 by Gigantalope on Fri, May 20, 2005 6:55 AM

F-inghell, how could I forget Rootbeer Floats?

I can go years without one, and not think of it or them...then one sip and it's the 4th of july.

I suppoese Watermellons should make me feel the same way, but they don't..I suppose they appear in too many fruit salads to seem summer specific.

In So Cal when I was really young there were lizzards that would come out in the warmer months. Western Fence Lizzards were the most common ("Blue Bellys") but there was one called a horned toad or Horneytoad that seemd to dissappear about 1968. They were cool.

Western Fence Lizzards have a strange enzyme in thier blood that neutralizes Lymes in Ticks. Amazing little varments.

The sulphery smell of fireworks makes any night seem like summer. It's different than gunpowder smell...I don't feel the memories if I go skeet shooting and sniff the shotgun...(sounds like some porn) that I get from the wafting clouds of ochre drifing...I loved to root thru the stacks of spent fireworks looking for "Duds" that someone may have been to chicken to light.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who spent hours cobbling together little bombs to blow up models