Summer Fun
Del Norte County’s weather is always the same. I love it. People are always asking me after hearing that comment if I’ve lived here all my life and I must answer them truthfully, no, not yet, I haven’t lived here all my life. But have lived here for fifty years. Every year in August-just 3 weeks before school starts the weather changes from windy to summer.If you see teachers that are in a perputally dour mood, check your calendar. Chances are if the sun is out and school is in. But excuse me, I’m getting months ahead of myself.
As soon as school gets out (which is always too late for the students-and especially the teachers) just after we have a few nice days and you think that things are going to be different this year. Those nice days are somewhat of a harbinger of summer-the wind starts blowing. It stops blowing just after the 4th of July celebratons are over and just welcomes in the foggy days in which it doesn’t clear off again until just after the county fair is over. If we’re lucky the sun will burn the fog off just in time where you can go down to the carnival and actually see your missing child atop the Gravitron staring down at you and yelling, “Can I buy a snow cone?” Or, in reality, will you buy me a snow cone when I get down from here?” Isn’t it nice to be loved or at least needed? I understand that there really is life beyond parenthood, but the problem is that when your kids have finally grown up and don’t need you to buy them snow cones anymore you can’t remember what is was like.