Signs of Summer AND a Fun New Game

Despite the snow clouds lingering on my mountain, and the freezing temperatures currently sucking the life out of my newly planted garden, I would like to announce that summer is only days away.
You would have to be blind (snow blind, perhaps?) to miss the signs of summer's approach.

Our styling new swim caps have arrived, and the pool is being prepped for our first early morning lap-a-pool-ooza.

Sweet branch buddies are appearing on my stoop unannounced to invite me on bike rides (The bike ride invitation was last weekend. This weekend they will be arriving unannounced via snowmobile) .

The snow cone place has opened. Oh, Peach-colada-berry. I think I've missed you most of all!

At school, the finals schedule is on the board.

The turn-in-baskets are as close to empty as they have been all year.

The giant pencils have made their appearance, and the Homeroom Security Testing Threat Level has been raised to red. Blood red.

And everyone and everything in the school, from the teachers, to the kidlets, to the pieces of tape on the back of my posters, have stopped functioning the way they are supposed to.

For example, one teacher that I know...lets call her "Lindy"... should have spent Saturday scoring papers, updating grades, and or cleaning her apartment. Instead, she spent three hours at a bridal shower, uploaded photos for a blog post, and went to see Iron Man 2. Oh, and she also spent a great deal of non-productive time coveting Yamammy and Zainab's hair. Covet, covet, covet.

Of course, all of that procrastination might have been in self defense. The alternative being thinking about the impending yearbook sorting and distribution stress-fest that is "the last two days of school".
Ahhhhhh!!!!!!! Yearbook Sorting and Distribution!!!!!!!!Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!



Quick! Think about the hair! Covet the hair! Hurry!

Phew. That was close!

Now, lets continue procrastinating by playing a new game that I just invented called "Who is in in Line at Check Stand #6?"

The game is played like this... I go to Walmart to pick up the random odds and ends that I forgot to purchase during my Walmart run the previous day. You get to pretend to be the clerk and try to figure out who is buying these random items and for what purpose.

Don't feel bad if you can't figure it out. I go to Walmart, like, twelve times a week, so you will have plenty of opportunities to hone your skills.
So, if you were the clerk at check stand #6, who would you think is buying these items (extra sharp tent stakes, a shower curtain liner, raisin bran) and for what purpose?

A. A "Survivor-Man" wanna-be who is planning to attempt to survive a weekend in Massacre Rocks with nothing but a shower curtain liner tent, some cereal, and the clothes on her back.

B. A novice murderer who needs to dispose of a body and is somewhat confused about the term "serial killer".

C. A gardener with a black thumb who is planning on spending Saturday evening trying to rescue her newly planted garden from the late-May snowfall, and Sunday evening watching the finale of LOST while pretending to share a box of Dharma Crunch with Sayid and Sawyer.

D. An aspiring torturer preparing to do her homework from the Dick Cheney School of Interrogation who happens to have an affinity for dried fruit and a problem with irregularity.

or

E. (Insert your original guess here)

Feel free to hum the Jeopardy theme music while you answer.