Relaxation Day

August 15th is "Relaxation Day." I don't think that's going to pan out.  There's a big bowl of ripe tomatoes begging to be salsa, and the hedge cutting company comes today for the annual laurel hedge and cypress tree cutting party.

Oh yea, and 50 new friends from Costco, ready to be planted. Somewhere.

Here's a nice poem from The Writer's Almanac called "Peak Summer" by Eric Nixon.

We're steeped in summer
And everything around me
Seems to indicate it'll never end
But still I'm spending time
Looking for the subtle signs
Trying to figure out when
We've reached peak summer
When a billion green trees
Start to dull ever so slightly
When the bounty of vegetables
Found at all the local farm stands
Starts thinning in quality and quantity
When the Halloween candy
Appears in the supermarkets
And the Back to School! signs
Show up in the big box stores
When the sun sets a little earlier
And gets a little more noticable
Each night, night after night
Until you start thinking about
How much daylight you lost
All of the signs and all of the things
I've been noticing are telling me
That we're right in the midst of
Peak summer and if I'm not careful
It'll be completely over
And I'll have missed it entirely
As the season folds into fall.