Okay summer is here.  TV ads are poppin’ up for great sumnmer getaways.  E-mail is swamped with messages from former vacation spots with requests for a revisit.  I glance outside for a sign.  You know the one.  Heat making the window too hot to touch.  Sun shining so brightly you wake up before the alarm from the bright morning sky.   You know, summer signs.  Kids screaming often and early outside as they play, ecstatic their classroom days are done for awhile.  The sound of camp buses pulling up early and often around the neighborhood.  Even on the mornings of early morning walks, the smell of breakfast cooking (when I walk near a diner) .  I’m supposed to be seeing, hearing and feeling those sights, sounds and experiences of the season by now.  WHERE ARE THEY?  There’s only one more week in June.  I’m about to panic.  Summer is short enough.  There’s nearly no time for shorts!  Granted I need more time to fit into a “nice” pair of shorts.  But I’ve faced it.  That boat has sailed with the skinny people and I don’t even care anymore.  I’m ready to wear clothes made for the heat.  So where is the heat?!  I was in Virginia over the weekend and got to experience sun and heat and the feeling of OMG I can’t breathe when I walked outside of an air conditioned airport to the outside parking lot.  It was wonderful.  Summer.  The way it was meant to be.  The way it was meant to be felt.  Against your face.  Burning.  Almost annoying.  The kind that makes you shed the jacket you had on, on the flight as if ants were crawling up your arms.  It was hot with a capital “H”.  No rain.  Just heat.  I realize there are those among us who live here and hate the heat of the summer.  To them I say,  leave us,  until the fall.  We will miss you.  But we don’t want to hear your complaints about the heat and the sun.  We summer lovers have  less than three months to enjoy our favorite time of the year.  Let us enjoy the shortest season to us that seems to be even shorter this year.  Please,  leave us alone as we proceed in our quest, looking for sunshine.