reach the beach

it's not just a bad fixx album from 1983. when the ocean temp is 75 and the air temp at the coast is in the low 80's, the beach beckons us to leave our our poorly-insulated old house (sweltering in the low 90's in kensington) and enjoy a refreshing swim. and it does so every weekend day recently, it seems. considering how brief beach season can be in san diego - the narrow window between june gloom and september upwelling - if there aren't any coastal clouds, there better be a really good reason not to be at the beach on the weekend right now.

as a result, the never-ending home improvement tasks get postponed - the old cracked wooden blinds linger on, the weeds assert themselves in the garden beds, and the new paint job for the remodeled kitchen is forgotten. but it's ok, because there will soon be 10 and a half months full of weekends where we won't be swimming in the ocean, and home depot will once again reclaim them.

so take the back-to-school sales, the end of summer reading lists, and the inane fall tv promos, and stick it. i waited all year for these 6 weeks, and i'm going to enjoy every last minute of them.

never let summer pass you by...