Sumer Is Icumen In

According to my calendration, with the coming of Memorial Day weekend the summer has begun. Alternate calendration, summer begins June 1. Summer is for me a time of the year when the hectic pace of life slows down considerably. Things I don't have time for the rest of the year, I always figure I'll get around to in the summer. Which, sometimes I do, often I don't.

Here's my floating mental list of things I will may get around to this summer:

• Read some more science-fiction novels by Philip K. Dick.
  
  
• Clean out the closet downstairs here in my study.
  
  
• Sort through the endless boxes of papers in the closet upstairs in the radio room.
  
  
• Play Shogi alias Japanese Chess.
  
  
• Make a Nine Men's Morris board.
  
  
• Get out and around and go places.
  
  
• Catalog the 3,000 books I've got in this house.
  
  
• Sit in the new shelter out back on a pleasant summer evening with brats, beer, and boombox.
  
  
• Listen to shortwave radio on my Grundig Satellit 700.
  
  
• Take time to slow down and relax.
  
  
• Read more of the 3,000 books I've got in this house.
  
  
• Work out in the garage on a couple of crafts projects that have been hanging forever.
  
  
• Go walking. Exercise. Lose more weight.

Of course, it's anyone's guess how many of these I'll get around to. With any luck, more than just two or three of them.