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Summer is my favorite season. As a kid, I spent my summers with my brothers and sister swimming at the neighborhood pool, swinging on our playset in the backyard, digging in our giant sandbox, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and taking evening walks with my family. Out in the yard, my mom and I picked weeds together and planted flowers of all colors. My dad and I planted sunflower seeds that grew so high they touched the sky. We often took to the driveway and spent hours playing basketball, our favorite games being horse and knockout. One summer, I wanted to set a world record for the longest time a kite was ever flown. When my neighbors left their house in the morning, my kite had lifted in the air, and when they returned to their house from their errands later, my kite was still flying. I decided that day I had done it — I had set a kite-flying world record. My siblings and I did some things we probably shouldn’t have done, like pretending to star in an Indiana Jones movie, climbing out of our second-story bathroom window onto a tree, and then descending to the ground. Thankfully, we made it out unharmed.
tools to fix or build things. Occasionally, I could sit on his lap on the riding lawn mower while we glided up and down the big hill in the pasture, and the vibrating steering wheel tickled my hands. On the hottest of summer days, Grandma and I (and usually my great- aunt who lived just across the street) would sit in lawn chairs in a circle under the shade of an old tree. Grandma told me her favorite creation on Earth was trees. She always had a big glass of iced tea and another glass to offer anyone who wanted to join. She also had an endless amount of chocolate bars in her refrigerator. My favorites were Butterfinger and Mr. Goodbar. After dark, the sky around my grandparents’ house and above the fields was dotted with the flashing yellow lights of lightning bugs. Sometimes we caught the lightning bugs in my grandma’s pickling jars and poked holes in the lids so they could breathe. Most of the time, though, I watched in amazement as the little lights flickered and moved, making it impossible to keep track of the path of just one. Those are the summers I knew, the memories I love. Until today, I had not considered why those were brilliantly meaningful moments in my life. I just knew that they were. Taking time to look back, I now see what made those summers special. The common threads woven through those memories are time spent, in an undistracted manner, with my family or
Summer was the time I could stay at my grandparents’ house as much as I wanted. My grandparents lived a life in the country, and I enjoyed being immersed in their different way of living. Stooped over in the hot sun, I picked tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and green beans with my grandma from her garden. We sat at the oval wooden table in her kitchen and snapped green beans as the smell of fresh earth filled our noses and the sound of snapping beans filled our ears. I loved being in my grandparents’ barn and watching my grandpa’s big, strong hands use
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STORAGE Boxes are meant for holding items, so use empty ones to organize a cluttered garage or attic or safely store less frequently used items like winter jackets or holiday decorations. If the brown cardboard aesthetic on a shelf just won’t cut it, paint the boxes or wrap them in eye-catching gift wrap, then label them.
As more people opt for online shopping, the number of home deliveries is skyrocketing. Almost every item ordered comes in its own cardboard box, and nearly 20% of these boxes end up in landfills, while the other 80% require significant amounts of energy to recycle. Here are four ways to reuse those boxes instead of just tossing them out. GARDEN BED STARTERS Because cardboard boxes are loaded with carbon and not contaminated by many other chemicals, they’re great for starting new plants or flower beds. They help reduce weeds and protect weak or young plants from the elements, and when the carbon in cardboard combines with the nitrogen in the dirt, a nutrient-rich soil emerges for plants to flourish in. COMPOST Clean corrugated cardboard —what most Amazon boxes are made of — is another great source of
useful carbon. Cut your boxes into pieces and place them
in your compost pile so the carbon combines with the nitrogen from food scraps. The process helps break
the pile down into nutrient-rich humus for healthy soil. TOYS OR ART SUPPLIES Kids tend to play with the box their new toy came in rather than
If you’re not sure how you want to use your boxes, just hold on to them until you’re ready. The beauty of cardboard is that you can break it down, store it easily, and reconstruct the boxes later when you find a use for them.
the toy itself for a reason. Cardboard boxes spark creativity, and the possibilities are endless! Boxes can be used as forts, spaceships, building blocks, art canvases, and more. Empty boxes can provide hours of fun with a little help from a vivid imagination.
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people I love, and time spent outdoors. For me, the combination of those things equated to a magical moment in time that could be felt in my heart and soul and deep in my bones. With that realization, I feel stress melt away. I don’t need extravagant plans for my family. It’s okay that we don’t have something on our calendar every day or week. It’s okay that the pandemic is slowing us down and
making us cross some activities off the list. In fact, it’s those casual, unplanned moments of just simply being together that become the moments that are everything to us. So, for the next few months of summer, I am going to continue to do what I’ve been doing the last three months now that I’ve had some extra time at home with my kids. I’m going to push my kids on the swing set under the shady tree, slurp on melting popsicles while playing barefoot in our driveway, race around the cul-de-sac on bicycles, climb trees, run through the sprinklers, and sit outdoors in our chairs hooting back and forth with the owls. Years from now, these will be the memories my kids and I love best.
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Employee of the Month Congratulations Krystal Wake!
Our Clients Say It Best
Congratulations to our July Employee of the Month, Krystal Wake! Krystal has been with the law firm for 12 years and has had a variety of jobs over the years. Her current (self-proclaimed) title is Special Ops. She stated, “I write briefs. Just that — I can’t count or anything.” She also said, “My favorite thing about working at FSTN is the way I am treated, accepted for who I am, and trusted to get the job done.” People who nominated her said this: “Krystal has been a valued employee for several years and she epitomizes our core values at FSTN. She is a bright light and joy as a person and a coworker.”
“I highly recommend. I was represented in a disability case. Everyone is very professional and pleasant. I was kept updated on all aspects, and any time I had questions, they were handled quickly. The attorney was very pleasant and explained everything before and after the hearing. After the approval, they contacted me to let me know what to expect next. Excellent law firm.” – K elly S. “I would recommend your firm to anyone. You are on time and everyone in your office is professional. My attorney was great. Very knowledgeable. Thank you for getting me approved finally after all this time with my problems. Thank you!” –Crystal F. We Handle Case Types Did You Know We Handle All of These Types of Cases?
Here are some fun questions we asked Krystal: 1. Do you have any strange talents? “I can do nunchucks.” 2. Who would you be for just one day? “Pfft … Judge Judy!”
3. If you were stuck on an island, what three things would you bring? “A knife, a lighter, and a large sheet of plastic to make a solar well. (I’ve studied this …)” 4. TV show you hate to admit you love? “ 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way ” 5. What is your favorite quote? “The early bird gets the worm, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese …”
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July is National Ice CreamMonth, so why not cool off with some sweet, homemade s’mores ice cream? You don’t even need an ice cream churn!
Ingredients
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14 oz sweetened condensed milk
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1 chocolate bar, chopped
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2 tsp vanilla extract
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2 cups whipping cream, chilled
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10 graham crackers, crushed
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Directions 1. In a large mixing bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, graham crackers, and chocolate. 2. In a separate bowl, use an electric mixer to beat whipping cream until peaks form, about 3 minutes. 3. Fold whipping cream into the condensed milk mixture. Transfer ice cream to a freezer-safe container, cover, and freeze for at least 8 hours. 4. Serve and enjoy on a hot summer day. It’s especially delicious in a waffle cone!
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Katie’s Reflections on Childhood Summers
Ways to Reuse Delivery Boxes Katie’s Reflections, Continued
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Employee of the Month Homemade S’mores Ice Cream
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4 Steps to Finally Sort Through Old Photos
Feel Bad About Throwing Away Photos?
4 RULES FOR GUILT-FREE PHOTO DOWNSIZING
If you’ve reached a point in your life where you’ve started to downsize, then you’ve likely grappled with the difficult task of getting rid of photos. After decades of life, how are you supposed to choose which memories are important enough to keep and which aren’t? These four rules can help make this daunting task easier. Rule No. 1: Cut Scenic Views You don’t need dozens of photos of that campsite you went to on vacation one summer. If a location was really meaningful, like the beach at your honeymoon, then keep a few, but pictures of the places you’ve been to are far less special than pictures of the people you love. Rule No. 2: Tell a Story When you look at a photo, does it make you want to tell a story about the people or places in the image? Could you share plenty of stories about riding around in Dad’s old truck or about how
funny your best friend from college was? Keep those photos. Pictures of people whose names you can’t remember or blurry photos you can’t make out can all go. Rule No. 3: EditWell If you have a lot of photos from a specific event or part of your life, think about how long each “chapter” of your life story would be. How much time would you spend writing about your cousin’s wedding or high school prom? If a certain event didn’t have that much meaning in your life, why dedicate pages and pages of a photo album to it? Rule No. 4: Throw Photos Away If a photo isn’t important enough to put in an album or frame on the wall, then it doesn’t need to stick around. Don’t put them in a box you’ll have to sort through later. Let the rejects go.
After all that hard work, treat yourself to a photo album shopping spree so you can start organizing the meaningful photos you have left.
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