Christmas in July-CIJ

Today is the first day of July. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike this heat. But one of the great things about July is alot of folks celebrate Christmas in July(CIJ).

DGD(dear granddaughter) & I like to do alot of things together including celebrating CIJ. Today already we've listened to CIJ music on pandora.com  It's fun to hear old as well as new songs and sing along. I don't know what/if we'll do tonight. Which brings me to what we plan to do one day this month...

I'm the type that likes to put my own spin on things when possible. While looking around blogs yesterday I saw the idea for an outside movie as well as talk about drive inns, which there are none close to here. But my brain goes ah ha we can do our own drive in:)

I have 2  laptops, 1 a full size and the other a smaller netbook which doesn't have a CD ROM drive. I prefer to use the netbook if I can find a place online to watch free movies/cartoons. One evening when it gets dusky dark we're going to take a laptop and our treats(soda, popcorn, candy bars etc) to our car. Set the netbook on the dash and watch our movie outside...Our own personal drive in:) I have battery operated fans if needed.

Of course we could watch the movie inside, but this is something different to experience. I'm old enough(birthday next week too) to have experienced drive inns. But DGD never has so we'll do our own version.

Don't be afraid to think outside the box.

Until next time...