Memorial Day and summery things

It's Memorial Day weekend again (my 65th!) and the weather is supposed to be summery but hasn't quite gotten there yet.  In fact, it's getting cooler as I write.  But we're doing summery things at Memorial Day.  Frank and I have been yardworking and we're grilling hamburgers and hotdogs for supper today.  Nancy is watching baseball and crocheting.

Yesterday and today we have been treated to the constant roar of motorcycles (two blocks away on I-66 and three blocks south on US50) as the bikers head into and out of DC for the Rolling Thunder celebration of Memorial Day.  When I lived along 395 in Alexandria you could fairly feel the throb in the air as masses of motorcycles passed up the freeway.  Yesterday we passed the Fairfax Harley Davidson store where there have been masses of bikes and music and a party atmosphere since Friday.

The Harley Davidson store was on our way to the Frozen Dairy Bar in Falls Church, an old-timey longtime ice cream parlor and pizza place that we like.  Nancy had asked early in the day if we could go and go we did.  I took a double dose of Dairy

Ease so I could have a root beer float (Nobody seems to make ice cream sodas any more!  Why is that?) with no unwanted intestinal dissonance from the ice cream thanks to my lactose intolerance.  Frank and Nancy had ice cream sundaes, rich mountains of frozen goodness.  We left feeling replete with summer goodness.

On to more summery things.  Maybe I'll set up the croquet set in the back yard.