Simple Summer Pleasures

Appears in

By Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins

Published 1982

  • About
  • Make photo scrapbooks
  • Watch the clouds
  • Make lemonade from scratch
  • Spend the whole day in a hammock
  • Plant an herb garden
  • Press flowers
  • Wear only white for a week
  • Read romantic Russian novels
  • Skinny dip in the moonlight
  • Play all of your old records
  • Spend a silent day
  • Fast on fruit juices and water
  • Write a letter and many postcards
  • Read poetry
  • Polish the silver
  • Visit the library
  • Wander in the museum
  • Do crossword puzzles
  • Go clamming
  • Go antiquing
  • Ride horseback around a lake
  • Make a kite
  • Go to a country fair
  • Fill the house with flowers
  • Make ice cream
  • Sleep outdoors
  • Put flowers on a floppy hat
  • Walk barefoot
  • Pick the morning glories
  • Toast marshmallows on the beach
  • Ride a roller coaster
  • Have lunch in your bathing suit
  • Ride in a convertible
  • Watch shooting stars
  • Listen to classical music
  • Hum
  • Play cribbage
  • Smell fresh mint
  • Meander among wildflowers
  • Give someone a rub with coconut oil
  • Snooze in the sun