Summer's Almost Over

You look at the calendar and realize this is really the last week of summer
and wonder where it went. For some of course summer has already ended because they’re back in college and for those that are retired, well as long as the weather is nice then its still summer. However for the majority of us what we know as summer is fast coming to an end. Schools will open this week for some teachers and even students in Ocean County and of course by next week everyone is back on their regular schedule. Most people have used up their summer vacations or will do so this week and then try and tie ii into a long Labor Day weekend.

Regardless the summer season has, is or will come to an end very soon for everyone and that to me is both sad and depressing and it’s magnified this year because it stated late and seems to have ended early. June was so bad you almost forgot it even existed…I mean what we had like 25 days of rain that month. July and the first two weeks of August were pretty good but we lost most of the last two weeks to storms and rough seas that were great for surfers but not for families with kids who wanted to swim in the ocean.
There is reason to be optimistic that this final week of the “season” will be sun-filled….we certainly deserve it.

Signs of summer ending are everywhere though as not only have many kids left for college but high school soccer, field hockey and football fields are filled with those getting ready for the new season to begin as the first games are right around the corner. Back to school shopping is in the home stretch
and book bags and backpacks will be replaced by Halloween candy and costumes before you know it. That is really a horrible thought.