week 27/18

July: Sum Sum Summer: Recipe

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Homemade Popsicles. (c)2018

One way to have fun and beat the heat is to make homemade popsicles. We tried this earlier in the week, and it was fun as well as refreshing.

I bought the popsicle makers for 99¢ at Wal-Mart. I’m going back for another one, maybe two. They’re an easy to use contraption. You could also use ice cube trays or silicone ice trays in different shapes. We found mini watermelon shapes in the dollar section at Target.

The flavors we used were Simply Lemonade with Raspberry, and Hawaiian Punch Fruit Punch. The latter is a favorite of mine from childhood. I almost never drink it because it’s just too sweet, but it has the perfect fruit punch taste, and it reminds me of being a kid in the summer heat.

What fruit juices or drinks do you recommend for freezing into popsicles?

Sum-Sum-Summer

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July is hot. Too hot. I’ve been trying to write this little blurb for July, one of my least favorite months, and all I’ve got is July is hot. Too hot. Despite rising to 100° today, with climate change, July is just the introductory offer to August. Try it for 30 days and whether you like it or not, August will be hotter. July will tease us with a couple of thunderstorms, cooling off the nights for sleeping, but it knows; it knows, and we know, the worst is still to come.

July is melting ice cream, camping in the backyard, popsicles, malling, visiting the library – free books, free wifi, and free A/C! July is school supply shopping – the best sales are in July, right after july 4th. July is a calendar full of birthdays including my husband’s 50th at the end of the week.

Do one thing in July.