Of course we've got the beginning of school... that 'day' a few days ago was just the beginning of the beginning. We will have those die-hards who insist differently and say, "I didn't start school back in the day until after Labor Day, so my kid doesn't have to start school until after Labor Day!" So we get to start all over again just for those special people.
To which our Registrar will tell them, "Oh, why didn't you come on the first day of school? Now your child no longer has a seat in the original class to which they may have been advised of before school started a week ago LAST Monday. Failure to come within the first 3 days of school caused us to believe your child was no longer planning on attending this school and they have been dropped from our rolls. Please proceed to the Library where you can fill out some on line forms (equals about 8 pages) to RE-enroll your child and I'll have our Principal begin deciding which teacher your child will have this school year." In other words, you are going to be late for work.
This is also when we like to say in our Bill Engavall voice, "Get Judy's sign!" Judy (a former Registrar) made a sign for occasions like these, Lack of preparation on your part, doesn't constitute an emergency on ours. Of course that wouldn't be good customers service if we had it hanging in the office, but I do get to wave it at L from the supply room in the back of my office.
It's also a sort of New Year time when you can get some really good deals on a car. All the cars rolling off the assembly line now have changed their year model, so why isn't this the beginning of the new year?
We now have room to take more than one person with us (and they don't have to squeeze behind the seat or ride in the back of a pick-up.)It's the beginning of the hunting season. I can just barely hear gunshots way off in the distance as I sit out here on the deck. Dove season started yesterday, soon to be followed by duck, turkey, deer (not necessarily in that order) and all those other seasons for animals that are hunted in other states because someone killed all those animals around here. Just so you'll know Lobster season started in the Caribbean too.
Speaking of the Caribbean, this is our hurricane season. Although it officially started a few months ago, we really don't see any action on the Texas coast until right about this time of year. Here's what we could see of Issac as he blew past us to the East a couple of evenings ago.
To end out my dissertation on why this time of year should be changed to the New Year. There's football!
Well at least in Texas there is. Everything revolves around High School football here in A-town.
Maybe they are living that "build it and they will come" adage in this town. Sure looks like they are. If you haven't see news footage on this, go ahead and crawl out from under that rock, it's been covered by EVERY news and sports station several times, hopefully they are finished. You can see it here or here. Yeah, some fans are comparing it to the Cowboy's stadium. I'll just take their word for it, I'll probably never step foot in either stadium.
As we drove past the stadium last night around midnight, all the lights were on
It's like New Years, but without the goofy hats and liquor.
It would be SO much more fun with liquor!
Sorry about the crappy pictures, they came off my phone.
