Days indoors Days outdoors Days down in your best friend's basement searching for the seventh secret coin in the desert world of that one video game Sprinkler days Water balloon days Days memorizing dance routines off the internet The days trying all forty three flavors of ice cream at the ice cream parlor and the days figuring out the perfect combination of flavor and cone sugar cake waffle plain or chocolate dipped Swimming days Days looking up cheat codes for games you already beat Days your best friend goes on vacation and you watch TV shows you've already seen because you don't want
to do anything new till your best friend gets back Days making making secret potions with stuff from the pantry Days your dad makes you go golfing Days building a waterslide park for ants Days at the movie theater in air conditioning sucking soda through a licorice straw while things explode on screen In the fall it will be dark and chilly and you will look back and remember remember fifty different kinds of day and it will be like you lived fifty different summers This book is about a summer in the woods
Chapter 1 AH SUMMER IN YAWNEE VALLEY Welcome welcome Smell the wildflowers blooming in the woods Smell the cows who bend down with hungry lips to tear those wildflowers from their stems chewing them swallowing them and regurgitating them up and down to and fro from mouth to stomach to mouth again for hours and hours till their petals petals pistils and stamens have degraded into cud which the cows finally digest Sorry That was disgusting But hey the 1
