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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 10:04 PM May 2020

Iced tea on a Summer's evening

I was thinking today about when I was a kid, back in the 1950‘s.
On warm summer evenings the family would gather under a big tree in front of our farm house, sit, and drink cold ice tea, hoping for a breeze.

There was a narrow country road that passed our place. Cars would occasionally drive by; they’d honk and wave, and we’d all wave back.

Life was simpler then ... sixty years ago.

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Iced tea on a Summer's evening (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2020 OP
we would wait to see the fireflies lapfog_1 May 2020 #1
Those were good times... VarryOn May 2020 #2
This morning I was remembering winter in the 50s Yonnie3 May 2020 #3
Well, I'm drinking Sun Tea I 'brewed' on my patio this afternoon at this very moment mr_lebowski May 2020 #4
Iced tea. Not shit in an aluminum can... 3Hotdogs May 2020 #5
 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
2. Those were good times...
Sun May 3, 2020, 10:29 PM
May 2020

Family was most important. Politics were an occasional concern. TV sucked, though.

Yonnie3

(18,686 posts)
3. This morning I was remembering winter in the 50s
Sun May 3, 2020, 10:55 PM
May 2020

How cold that outhouse was and remembering the time the hand pump froze.

I hadn't thought about those days for a long time.

I recall as you do, sitting outside in late July hoping for a breeze. The still air thick and humid and the iced tea glasses dripping condensation.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. Well, I'm drinking Sun Tea I 'brewed' on my patio this afternoon at this very moment
Sun May 3, 2020, 11:16 PM
May 2020

So there's that at least

3Hotdogs

(14,186 posts)
5. Iced tea. Not shit in an aluminum can...
Sun May 3, 2020, 11:24 PM
May 2020

Real iced tea. With lemon and sugar and tea that you brewed yourself.

Or lemonade from real squeezed lemons.

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