Dog days
Here we are, friends, panting our way into the Labor Day weekend a couple of weekends from now. August finally arrived here, from a weather standpoint, in central Kentucky, with all of the heat and humidity and discomfort that we normally expect.
It always feels this way, yet I marvel at how things seem this time of year. My Cincinnati Reds are in "rebuilding" mode (hopefully there's an almost completed structure by now, but I kinda doubt we're there yet), so they're not competitive. So my interest in baseball wanes.
College and professional football will be here soon. My teams (college: Kentucky, professional: Denver Broncos) have some uncertainty surrounding them.
The bigger movies have come and gone (not that I went to see any of them) and the fall will bring some bigger releases, but most are the variety that is designed to build critical acclaim, at least until Christmas, when it's presumed that people go to the movies and the more popular fare comes out.
Congress isn't in session, thankfully, but our news is filled with what our President said or did (or didn't say or didn't do), both in real time and in the past.
School is back in session in our part of the country. My law school student son has returned to his evening classes for his second year. My wife is back to helping out by picking up our grandchildren from school on some days.
And even the eclipse is over and done with, although some reports indicate that there are still people stuck in traffic in some places! Well, not really, but a baseball player who makes his off-season home in Nashville got stuck in traffic leaving town to meet his team in Cincinnati. The reason? Exiting eclipse celebrants!
So now we have another holiday coming up, and it seems like a long time ago that we celebrated Independence Day. Hope you and yours have the chance to do something fun.
It always feels this way, yet I marvel at how things seem this time of year. My Cincinnati Reds are in "rebuilding" mode (hopefully there's an almost completed structure by now, but I kinda doubt we're there yet), so they're not competitive. So my interest in baseball wanes.
College and professional football will be here soon. My teams (college: Kentucky, professional: Denver Broncos) have some uncertainty surrounding them.
The bigger movies have come and gone (not that I went to see any of them) and the fall will bring some bigger releases, but most are the variety that is designed to build critical acclaim, at least until Christmas, when it's presumed that people go to the movies and the more popular fare comes out.
Congress isn't in session, thankfully, but our news is filled with what our President said or did (or didn't say or didn't do), both in real time and in the past.
School is back in session in our part of the country. My law school student son has returned to his evening classes for his second year. My wife is back to helping out by picking up our grandchildren from school on some days.
And even the eclipse is over and done with, although some reports indicate that there are still people stuck in traffic in some places! Well, not really, but a baseball player who makes his off-season home in Nashville got stuck in traffic leaving town to meet his team in Cincinnati. The reason? Exiting eclipse celebrants!
So now we have another holiday coming up, and it seems like a long time ago that we celebrated Independence Day. Hope you and yours have the chance to do something fun.
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