Summer is Really Over!

Some of you may know that I have an outdoor shower, on my deck. I take every shower from spring through late fall there. 

Today, I shut it down. Too much freezing weather in the forecast. We've also closed up the deck furniture, and our outdoor bar. Summer is truly over.

Honestly, I always look forward to the changing seasons. I don't think I'd really like living somewhere that is always warm.

That being said, I still find it sad when summer is finally gone. Yes, we'll have a few more warm days. And yes, I'm still mowing (although not as often.) 

In my teaching/coaching days, summer was over the first week of  August, when Cross Country started. Because while it was still warm, the freedom that was summer was over by then.

Now, it's not the beginning of coaching that marks summer's end. It's the shutting down of my outdoor shower!

And while I don't mind the winter, (although I wish it were shorter) it's still somehow a sad day when summer is over.

Yes, in a few months, it will warm up. Sometime in April or May I'll fire up my shower once again. And I'll mow lawns once again. I'll have track meets to score once again. And outdoor church services to play piano at once again.

But the future is never promised. And while I assume I'll be here to welcome summer back, the melancholy that hits me when I close up the shower is still very real.

And today, November 10, summer is officially over--I've closed the shower!

I'll mow lawns tomorrow, and I'll still be wearing shorts while doing it. And the forecast is pretty good, so there's that. 

But summer is over. Not a bad thing. Just a sad thing.