Summer Vacation

Summer is over. Kids are going back to school, the leaves are turning.

Well, in my neighborhood, we don't have trees--thanks to builders whose first step is always bulldozing the acreage--but the shrubs are turning. And granted, it has more to do with the drought conditions around here than it does with the time of year, still, the leaves are turning, dammit!

And with these tell-tale signs that fall is approaching, slowly, lumbering... like a... thing... that lumbers... slowly... (fix it later), a not-as-young-as-he-once-was-but-then-again-who-is man's fancy turns back to Reading Zen.

How many posts will it last this time before the next lapse? If anyone wants to get a pool going, I call six. (Not counting this one.)