Summer of the Front Porch Swing

Summers at 26 Poplar usually found me on the front porch swing - rain or shine - with a book. Usually, Nancy Drew was my first choice or something from the bookmobile. There were some nice interruptions; watching neighbors or Rex chase a car, mail from Wilbur, waiting for the ice cream truck, occasionally see Pete Grubb on his big blue motorcycle with American flags, or watching my brothers and our neighborhood friends get into mischief of some kind.
Later (at about 12 yrs.) I watched from the roof top outside the attic window. This was a much better place for spying. I thought that I was up there in my bathingsuit getting a tan out of sight, but I'm sure more than one adult let my mother know that I was there.
Summers seemed to go by so slowly! Such a leisurely pastime with nothing in particular to do. Summer nights were also the absolute best! Playing games in the neighborhood until the street lights came on and then if we were lucky, we'd get to sleep out on someone's porch.
I currently don't have a wrap around porch on my house or a swing or a neighborhood anything like the one in Woodsdale in the 60's, wish that I did. But then I think I would need a time machine to make it perfect.