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Sunset On Twin Lakes

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Her message back was appropriate and I even returned to the beach later in the evening and noticed that the nerdy kid whose family has a pretty nice boat had even found the groove of August. He's cruising slowly around the lake with a girl, playing country music and the two of them are singing at the top of their lungs. No one is much on the water, maybe a canoe or two, and the exuberance can be heard as far as the opposite shore. When the boat putts past my place “Thank God I'm a Country Boy” is cranking from the boat speakers and they are two-stepping on deck. August is the month where summer fits like an old pair of hiking boots and the frenetic days of July are long past/Mike S (who also snapped the wonderful scenic above). Full post below.

Question: Where does August rank in your months of the year?

August. So I'm sitting on the beach where the sun warms and the guys next-door have a lively game of horseshoes going on when I realize I can't concentrate on my book. Smiling a little, I send a text to my friend in Portland who gave me the book to tell her that this horseshoe game is distracting me from the poems. Her message back was appropriate and I even returned to the beach later in the evening and noticed that the nerdy kid whose family has a pretty nice boat had even found the groove of August. He's cruising slowly around the lake with a girl, playing country music and the two of them are singing at the top of their lungs. No one is much on the water, maybe a canoe or two, and the exuberance can be heard as far as the opposite shore. When the boat putts past my place “Thank God I'm a Country Boy” is cranking from the boat speakers and they are two-stepping on deck. August is the month where summer fits like an old pair of hiking boots and the frenetic days of July are long past and I think of my friend in Portland who manages grant funds for a major university and her reply to my text. “Gee, I feel so sorry 4 U.”



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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