"In summer, the song sings itself." -- William Carlos Williams --

 "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -- Russell Baker --

 "I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing. -- Unknown --

 "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken." -- James Dent --

 "Let a man walk ten miles steady on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton --

September Update

 Hello, everyone! I hope y'all are continuing to enjoy this blog. Now that the school year is back in full swing we all will be much busier, I'm sure! I am actually very surprised how many people are viewing this blog daily! If you are loving this blog, I challenge you to do one thing: share this blog with a friend or two. Trust me, it helps keep me motivated. I hope you still visit this blog even with a crazy new semester starting!

 "That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air . . . Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer." -- Wallace Stegner --