RevGal Friday Five . . . Hot Town, Summer in the City...

...or town, or suburb, or hamlet, or burg, or unincorporated zone, or rural area of your choice---pretty much anywhere but the southern hemisphere, it's summer. (Australians and others, consider this an invitation to take a break from winter for a while.)

1. Favorite summer food(s) and beverage(s)
   I find it difficult ranking things but here are the first things that come to my head (1) summer salad [bell peppers, green onion, lemon juice, and cottage cheese, thing my family invented] (2) lemon chills at an amusement park (3) push-ups, (4) cherry lemonaid, (5) I have to stop now because I SO VERY hungry and this isn’t helping
   
2. Song that "says" summer to you. (Need not be about summer explicitly.)
   Once again difficult to rank (1) Summertime, Porgy and Bess, (2) Summertime, DJ Jazzy Smith and the Fresh Prince, (3) the theme song to Cadyshake, (4) the theme song to National Lampoons Vacations, (5) The Boys of Summer, Don Henley, (6) Low Rider, War, (7) Summer Nights, Grease, (8) just about anything you can snag to (somehow I managed to live in South Carolina and never learn, (9) and of course the afor referenced Lovin' Spoonfulf song of summer, which I have always thought was "hot time, summer in the city", (10) I could go on but I will stop now . . .
   
3. A childhood summer memory
   If you consider the teens year childhood, it would have to the Mission Trip that my youth group took to Wyoming. I just felt like everything I had always wanted was finally falling in place and that’s all I going to say about that.
   
4. An adult summer memory
   The summer I spent working for a church Myrtle Beach. I would spending time with my friend Stacy M. tanning on the beach on a fairly regular basis. I miss Stacy M. and I also miss the beach but I really miss my friend (she now lives in the Northeast). Now I am sad . . .
   
5. Describe a wonderful summer day you'd like to have in the near future. (weather, location, activities)
   Three words beach, beach, and that right the beach. It would be before the oppressive heat takes over. As for a specific beach, as long at it connects to the ocean and has sand I am a happy girl. Finally, I have to be miles away from anything that resembles a schedule. Lying on the beach for hours preferable with an adult beverage with a little umbel or tropical fruit protruding from the top, swimming, body surfing, mid-afternoon naps, dress for casual dinners. This how ever is very unlikely to happen in my near future.

Optional: Does your place of worship do anything differently in the summer? (Fewer services, casual dress, etc.)
Not really . . . the youth and children generally dress more casually but that is about it. Our head of staff usually goes out of town for a major portion of the summer as well. Which is good for me because it has created an opening in the worship leadership schedule for everyone’s favorite fascicle preacher (I refer you to the two posts proceeding this one). However we have decided to permanently change a few this summer. We just start workshop rotation for the children Sunday school (it about time) and we changed the timing of the 9:35.9:45 service and classes. I still haven’t figured out what that’s all about. We are also having only one adult Sunday School this summer. I am teaching the class on the Presbyterian Church's understanding of Gal 3:28 with regard to women in the church. (with sense of sincere excitement) I can't wait, I am SO excited. We also add two new staff members (yeah Kristin & Jeremy). So far they have my stamp of approval, not that that in anyway matters to anyone but me.