Post-Solstice

It always seems strange to me that Summer officially begins just when the days start getting shorter again. I love summer, even more now when it means three glorious months of rest and renewal. I have spent the last two weeks doing serious gardening and yardwork (it looks so much better now), and the worst of it is yet to come. I have a huge "compost pile" that really needs work, and an ancient wooden shed which needs to be demolished and hauled away. Those are really big projects and I can't face them without further study and planning. Ahem.
Our first camping trip of the summer is coming up, albeit a mini one. It will give us a chance to make sure everything is in working order before we embark on a major trip.
I have begun working through the textbooks for the new subjects I will be teaching next year--precalculus and algebra II. Algebra II is not a worry, but I am concerned about precalculus. It has been a long time since I have used any but the most basic trig identities. Well, this will be good for me. It will help me feel empathy with my future students.
The two classes I am taking this summer run consecutively--July 13-30 and August 3-13. We have a long camping trip planned for the second half of August, but I would like to get at week long trip in before the first class starts in July. Can't wait!
On the literary front, I am currently finishing up "The Ten Second Staircase" by Christopher Fowler, and enjoying it immensely. After that, I have "The White Corridor" by the same author, and then "Cemetery Dance", the latest novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs. By the time I finish these, the two Daniel Pinkwater books I ordered off of eBay should have arrived--one a collection of 4 novels and the other a book entitled "The Afterlife Diet". Is there any better way to spend the summer?