Most excellent read. I so love the way you stick everyday words together, like a finely crafted train. (There is a true art to such things.) Thanks for that.
Hmmm, and as for summer, beyond rum...ham, ham=pink=my post-spring colorization of being, during those three months of true joy. That's about it for pink and summer. Besides, I suppose, a dog's tongue, as it sweats, much like yon author, and in the only way it knows how.