Sunday, June 1, 2008

Lily Vanilli

I'm a sucker for new things. You might call it Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, I prefer the term Creatively Spontaneous. Food companies spend millions on advertising each year to repackage a familiar product. They take a drink that you have been drinking for twenty years, change the color of the can and WaLa, I'm the first in line to buy: New Coke, Clear Coke, Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, Coke Classic, Coke Classic with Santa Claus drinking it, Coke Classic with the Olympic Rings painted on it, and then there is coke in a glass bottle (my favorite). A Rose by any other name is marketed to guys like me.
I think that's why I love the seasons. I love the spring until late May when I am ready for the summer. I love the summer until August when the heat gets a little excessive and college football is in the air. Fall is great for a few months. And, there is nothing quite like a fire in the fireplace during the dead of winter.
Today, I love the weather in Mississippi. Being that we are near a tropical zone, everything that has been green is now turning a deep deep green. After an afternoon thunderstorm the trees and grass almost glow a psychedelic green against the black skies.
This is the time of year that you have to be outside. And, being outside leads to all kinds of FUN yard work. As we have hit our mid-30's we have transitioned into gardening type people. I don't know that I ever aspired to be a gardening type of guy, but I really enjoy working outside. Shauna is a gardener. She loves to work in the yard, and let me emphasize the word WORK. My neighbor has deemed her 'The Warden.' He looks out of the perch on Baldwin Drive, and knows when the Stockstill family is serving their sentence. It's not that we use our kids for slave labor... well ok, we do use them for slave labor; but, we are faithful to give them free kool-aid.