[RKDinOKC]

Greetings for the first Monday of a new month. And yes it is summer.

As a kid we kept a flat bottom boat on our back flagstone patio. It rested upside down on wooden saw horses. The front seat on one, the rear seat on another. We had a small kid sized picnic table that was under the center seat with the seat making a great shelf. The john boat was a dark green metal and the patio was on the south side of the house. There were no trees shading the patio or boat. We even rigged up sheets and blankets for walls making it a metal roofed tent so there wasn't even any air circulation. The summers were not any cooler then than they are now. It is a wonder we didn't cook our brains in the summer heat.

My current back yard is on the east side of the house and there are enough trees that the entire back yard has some shade most of the day.