This Friday, I would like to Take Five minutes to be grateful for this new and old music that puts me in a summery mood. This weekend there is a 30% chance of rain, which will make for some amazing photos, to say the least. But summers here and more than complaining about needing rain. Summer can be full of no pants (i.e. dresses, I suppose), floating in the pool, watching pine trees, early morning napping (I call it a gradual wake-up) on the hammock, an icebox full – no, really, FULL – of popsicles and bike rides through some beautifully colorful neighborhoods.

Bluesy blues perfect for a muggy, sweltering monsoon night, fanning myself on the hammock, eating a popsicle. Seriously, I should be doing everything with a popsicle in tow-the freezer is full!

If you click through on this video, it should play all the songs, as a playlist. If you don’t want to click through, it will just play Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” sung by the awe-inspiring Puppini Sisters. NOTE: “Thursday Night” by Honey Honey and “You Can’t Stop Me Now” by RZA are a tad NSFW, but the rest are all fine.