Seasons Change

Summer officially ended more than a month ago but I really don’t go by the calendar to tell me when one season arrives and the other ends. First of all we really don’t have four equal seasons anymore but rather long summers and winters and short springs and falls. The Kevin Williams calendar says summer ends when Stewart’s Root Beer on Route 37 in Toms River closes which it has. It is now Fall or Autumn and that lasts until Thanksgiving when winter begins. The arrival of spring is debatable.

Mentally for me it starts with St. Patrick’s Day because I always feel when we get to that day
it signals better weather days are coming. Of course it’s usually followed with at least another month of weather which makes us wonder what happened to spring which really doesn’t begin until late April and is then over by Memorial Day which is the start of summer. Whether this new calendar is a result of global warming or not I will leave up to the so-called experts but I do know summer is over because Stewart’s is closed.

If that’s not enough the Water Garden and Koi Company closed my pond yesterday
which means no more hearing that soothing sound of the water running down the rocks. Don’t you kind of envy the fish that now go months without a care in the world although it’s got to be boring.

However as a post-script to all of this we could still experience “Indian Summer” although there’s confusion over this as well. Some will tell you that any prolonged stretch of 70 plus degree days after autumn arrives qualifies while others say official “Indian Summer” can’t take place until after the first frost arrives. Of course if you want to be politically-correct I guess you would have to call it “Native American Summer.”

On an unrelated matter….The AutoLenders High School Football Show will be a live broadcast tonight at Southwinds Restaurant on East Lacey Road in Forked River from 6-8pm. On location guests include coaches Vince Casale of Central and Rob Davis of Barnegat along with a couple of their players. The show airs on the Shore Sports Network, including 1160AM.