It's Summertime

I'm sorry but nothing says summer like the Beach Boys. OK, Jan & Dean, Surf City, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, Summer Nights, Chicago, Saturday in the Park, Don Henley, Boys of Summer. So I guess there are a lot of summer songs but still, when you hear the Beach Boys all you can conjure up in your mind is summer.

It's not even July 10th and the calender is filling up. Weddings, Class reunion, Music Festivals, it seems I'm now making plans for late August. Remember when the summer was so long and you had nothing to do but play baseball or ride your bikes and it got to the point that you wanted to go back to school. Now everything is planned and ridged and carved into stone; almost. So here is my July.

12-17 New York State AOH Convention. A week of meetings during the day and Irish music and culture at night. This year, the Saratoga AOH is putting in a bid for the State Convention in 2013. It has been a lot of work preparing for our presentation and we have to work the crowds all week for the vote on Saturday morning but I am looking forward to it.

22, Kids are coming into town and my cousin's daughter is getting married. Nothing says wedding more than a reception at the Canfield Casino, (it's haunted ).

23rd Open date?

29-31 Great American Irish Festival in Frankfort NY, that's just outside Utica. A great three days of music and fun.

30 Guilderland High School Class of 76 reunion. OK, here's the first of the double bookings. Do I stay out in Utica and miss the reunion or do I come back and then try to make it out for Sunday in Utica. This might just be a last minute decision.

So that's my July, oh and the track opens. August is filling up fast also, so now you can see just how hard it is to be a social butterfly. I think I'm going to sit back this weekend and listen to a little Beach Boys. Wait, this weekend I have a party to go to on Saturday and a Hurling match on Sunday that might turn into an all day affair. If these are my biggest problems then life is good and folks, right now..........life is very good.