Avocado Chopped Salad Two Ways

We kids used to do odd things to keep cool in the summers. We ran through the sprinklers. We laid in the shady carport so our bare stomachs could be against the cool smooth cement playing Go Fish. We drank lemonade all day long. We rode around town at night with all the car windows rolled down. Sometimes we ate banana splits for dinner. And we ate tons and tons of cold salads. One of my favorites is the simplest chopped salad you can make: cool, creamy avocados paired with ripe tomatoes and ta