Friday Five ~ a day late

RevGal Anne Fraley:  "As the (US) holiday weekend heats up, I’m thinking about ways to stay cool.  You?  Share your preferences in today’s Friday Five!"

1)  Ice cream:  cup or cone?

I'll take either one, but a big bowl of cold ice cream sounds better to me when I'm really hot.

2)  Water:  beach or pool?

Pool, but at 79 years old I'd prefer to soak in a bathtub instead.

3)  Beverage:  tea or lemonade?

Definitely tea ... ICED tea, with lots of ice.  Adding lemonade to my iced tea is okay, but why mess up a good thing?

4)  Relief:  air conditioning, or shade?

Shade, if I have to be outside, but I'll just stay here inside with my air conditioner on high, thank you very much.  It's 90°F in St. Louis and feels like 100°F right now, according to my weather app.

5)  Fun:  fill in the blank!

Reading a book.  I've just finished Elizabeth Berg's 2018 novel Night of Miracles.  Now I want to read (or finish) two nonfiction books (Barbara Brown Taylor's Holy Envy and Jacqueline Winspear's What Would Maisie Do? and the novel I just got from the library (Katherine Marsh's Nowhere Boy).  Maybe I'll soak in the tub (see #2 above) while reading and control the water temperature with my toes as needed.

Hmmm, I ate the last of my ice cream yesterday.  Now I guess I'll have to run out (in the heat!) and buy another carton.  Anne didn't ask which kind of ice cream I prefer.  I rarely eat chocolate (as illustrated above), though I'd eat it in a pinch.  The carton I finally finished off last night was "coyote tracks" (vanilla ice cream with thick fudge swirl and mini peanut butter cups), but my usual is just plain vanilla.  I add whatever I have around, like slices of banana or fresh blackberries or other fruits.  I just happened to have fresh bananas I bought yesterday.  Can you see my smile?

NOTE:  I went back to discover how many years I've been posting Friday Fives on this blog (off and on since 2011), and found I had also written about iced tea when Jan asked us to use the letters of our names on July 15, 2011 to express gratitude.  I used the "i" in Bonnie for Iced tea on a hot summer day.  How funny is that coincidence?