THE FIRST DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH.....WOW!

WHAT HAPPEN---AGAIN?

I remember this was the time the new shoes went on!

Hell, any shoes at all went on!

New haircuts!

Spit and polish!

School's starting!

It's now getting dark now around eight o'clock and it always seems to get a little cooler on the first of September regardless of whether it does or not!

It seems we will soon see more spectacular sunsets than earlier in the year!

One long weekend to go and the doors of the dreaded school house will open until June with only small breaks along the way. Significant gifts like Christmas, New Years, Spring Break, but nothing like summer.

Now I guess the time of year is defined by places like Staples and Wally World.

I like to think of it in simpler terms and not discounts for things like No. 2's, three ring binders, back packs, and those little sticky things that reinforce the holes in pages of paper.

More appropriate are Superman lunch boxes, your pencil behind your ear to be cool, those springs for your pants so your cuffs wouldn't catch in the bike chains, and your ball glove on the handle bar, now that's what I'm talking about.

Of course as parents.....It's just the other side of the coin. We love our kids, but it's a different kind of freedom. Someone else gets to mold their little minds of mush for seven or eight hours a day.

But, you know what? We lived through it. And so did our parents. And I guess our kids and grand kids will do the same.

Another September.