Summer Wind Down

More than any previous year since we've been in the Possum Kingdom, there is a real feel of the end of summer in the air.

True, we've had a weirdly cool summer anyway, with only a few hot days sprinkled in amongst the cool and rainy ones, but beyond that, something different seems to be in the air. Perhaps it's the fact that days are already getting shorter and that mornings and nights are now really on the cool side. Perhaps it's the fact that the kids around the village are getting that restless thing that happens to them when they know that school is just around the corner.

Certainly the adults are eager for school to start (at least THIS adult is!). I'm getting ready to start my last week at the library and suddenly they're back to coming in all day and getting really rambunctious and rowdy, treating the place like it's their living room and not a library. I'm never quite sure how much of a disciplinarian I'm supposed to be and try to temper letting them have fun with how annoying they are being.

I feel time slipping away from all of us today. I don't know why, perhaps it's all that I feel the need to accomplish mixed in with the pain of my sciatica. All I know is that it leaves me feeling melancholy...

Ciao for now.

Randy