As Summer Closes the Fun is Just Beginning

Oh boy, the unofficial last holiday of summer is upon us. Labor Day has come to be known as the end of summer and leads us into the fall. Cooler mornings, crisp evenings, the US Open, and the start of college football. For us in Florida, most of this is true. The cool mornings and crisp evenings are a bit off, but nonetheless, fall is right around the corner. What does all this mean as the dog days of summer leave us?

There are a lot of fun things coming up. If you have kids, you have about a month to prepare for the fall festival season. Right after that comes the Halloween experience. For some it is meandering around the neighborhood, or maybe someone else’s better neighborhood, or hitting up the local trunk-or-treat. High School volleyball is in season and the high school football teams are deep in their seasons. College football teams and their mass amounts of alumni and ravenous fans are clamoring for tickets to the big conference games, and hunting seasons take up the other free times.

Yes, there is more. As soon as Halloween comes and goes the focus becomes turkey with all the trimmings. Thanksgiving, the holiday where families overindulge, watch a parade, then pretend to watch football while sleeping the afternoon away. Sometimes, we even eat leftovers in the evening and we don’t skip the second piece of the pie.

There are many other things that make the fall a great season. The leaves in the mountains and up north begin to change. I think about driving a sports car through a winding road and the leaves twirling up behind me. Wearing a sweater and looking appropriate, drinking a hot chocolate around a campfire during an evening gathering, and having a few pints at an Oktoberfest. I think fall and spring may be the best two seasons of a year. Summer is pretty awesome but that is because there are just some incredible sporting events all over the world during that time. Fall is a fun time. That word, fun, is just going to stay close in my mind for a good period of time.

Enjoy the weekend, thank either Matthew Maguire or P.J. McGuire, yes there is an argument who started this holiday, for wanting to honor the unions with a day. It took awhile to make it a federal holiday, but it really doesn’t matter who started it. For many around the country, it is an extra day off to have some fun. For us in Polk County, it appears it is an extra day running around on the UTV, according to all the trailers I saw heading east this Friday afternoon. Have fun, enjoy the family, and realize that fall is right around the corner and the best or second-best season of the year is almost upon us.

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