How can it be August already? Seriously, what the
heck happened? It seemed like just a few days ago Pam and I were in Myrtle
Beach celebrating my birthday and looking forward to warmer weather and now I
wake up and it’s…August! You remember August, right? That’s that worthless
month sandwiched between vacationing July and Labor Day. There are no holidays.
Most people have already taken their vacations already. Now there’s just 30
days of hot nothing.
If you have school-aged kids, you’re counting down
the days until they finally go back to class already! If you have college kids
in the house, you have setting up a dorm room to look forward to. If you’re a
teacher, August is that pit in your stomach, that rude reminder that life is
about to get harder soon. Your yard is turning brown; your bank account is
empty because you spent too much money at the beach last month. Yes, August is
great.
Back in February, my other least favorite month,
there comes a time when you’ve had it with the cold. Snow no longer holds any
wonder. Christmas is over, you’re sick and tired of hot chocolate, and you just
want to go someplace warm. Well, August is that way. There comes a time,
usually around the 15th where you discover that you are very much
over summer. You start day dreaming about fall colors, drinking apple cider,
and wearing sweaters. But those days won’t come anytime soon because…it’s
freaking August!
Thanks to our hard working Congresspersons in
Washington, August has been granted a few titles that you’re probably not aware
of, in a desperate attempt to spruce it up a bit. For instance, I bet you didn’t
know that August if National Romance Awareness Month. Yes there’s nothing like
95% humidity and 105 degree temperatures to make me aware of how romantic the
fall will be! August is also National Picnic month. I don’t know about you, but
every morning when I go outside and my sunglasses immediately fog over, the
first idea that comes into my head is always, “Hey, let’s have a picnic!” And
finally August is also National Eye Exam Month. What, was National Anal Exam
already taken?
What is wrong with us? We are never satisfied with
where we are in the moment. When it’s cold, we want warm. When it’s hot, we
want cool. When it’s August, we want it be…anything else.
I love August. It is the month of changing, when I know the change in the color of leaves is coming (except there are less reds in CO)...the start of something beautiful! I woke up to a crisp morning here in CO - just perfection, if you ask me. August is a time when I am experimenting with cooking ideas, preparing for new recipes to be created and loved. It's also the month I celebrate one very special birthday of a very special friend and the month of the anniversary of my US citizenship. Oh, and the anticipation of my own birthday not far in advance...a great month indeed!
ReplyDeletePS. Perhaps you'd like the picnic concept better if you lived in a drier climate...