A reader question:
Dear Muffy,
I really enjoy your blog and soul-soothing pictures of New England life. Please keep at it! With Autumn just around the corner, I have a question for you and the community
Aside from all the back to school noise, summer here always wraps up at our local club with a tennis tournament and a big talent show put on by the kids. Some families have a big picnic or get everyone together for a weekend. Do your readers have a similar favorite end of the summer event or traditions?
Best Wishes,
Thankfully we have at least 6 more weeks of summer in this part of New England, but the best end of season tradition is local's summer. All the summer visitors have gone and the leaf peepers have not yet arrived. Bliss.
ReplyDeleteSummer ends for us here, the first day of Cubbing. Generally, the first Saturday after Labor Day
ReplyDeleteWell done! Cubbing indeed! I always dreamed that our hunt club would try to bring Cubbing to the masses, you know, inner city youth and such. Alas, the unwashed folk will never experience the beauty of Cubbing.
DeleteNow most public schools start at the end of August, instead of the first Wednesday in September. Labor Day has thus been upstaged some, and is not quite what it used to be. Nevertheless we wait until after Labor Day to roll out the pumpkins. When we put the pumpkins on the porch, it’s official, “summertime has come and gone my oh my.”
ReplyDeleteWith autumn temps coming later and later, I think we should move Labor Day back to at least the third Monday in September and claim the first half of the month as the summer it is, or has become.
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