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So, Saturday (09AUG2025) is a big family party at the Compound.\u00a0 Another grandson graduates from high school and begins college.\u00a0 The next, next generation become adults and have all the same decisions and experiences in front of them.\u00a0 And Camera Girl and I continue our campaign to get to play with progressively more distant descendants.\u00a0 The hunt for great grandchildren is now the thing.<\/p>\n

But the main thing is that I\u2019m just providing the infrastructure; the indoor and outdoor venue and the grill.\u00a0 The graduate\u2019s parents will bring and cook the food and organize the kids\u2019 activities and lifeguard the pool.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just be one of the kids tomorrow.\u00a0 I intend to spend a portion of the event with my brothers talking about how passing the torch to the next generation feels for them.\u00a0 There has been a threat of putting on a Shatner-Khan adjacent event.\u00a0 Maybe put on one of his greatest hits.\u00a0 If it happens, I hope it\u2019ll be \u201cTerror at 20,000 Feet.\u201d \u00a0There can be nothing more definitively Shatner than that.<\/p>\n

But I hope to spend most of the day eating burgers and dogs and potato salad and peppers and sausage.\u00a0 And then playing pool with the grandkids and shooting the breeze with family that I don\u2019t see very often.\u00a0 This will be the last get together for the summer.\u00a0 And everyone is getting older and travelling even the modest distances between us becomes more challenging every year.\u00a0 So, these parties become more important.<\/p>\n

I guess most of us are on the Trump train so there will be some Trump gloating going on.\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep it sotto voce because even among my close relatives there are a few folks of the other persuasion.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t see any need to start a fight.\u00a0 Family solidarity is more important than scoring political points at a party.\u00a0 That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago the goofy looking weather man on the Spectrum channel (my cable provider) told us that it looks like a very nice week with temperatures in the 80\u2019s, low humidity and plenty of sun.\u00a0 But then, just to prove he\u2019s a jerk he went into a little spiel where he defined just how much daylight we lose over the course of August.\u00a0 And just to show that he was intentionally spreading misery he finished off by saying, \u201cBut most people don\u2019t like to be reminded of this sad fact.\u201d\u00a0 What a creep.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s right.\u00a0 The sun is lower in the sky.\u00a0 It\u2019s cooler than a few weeks ago and the sun is down earlier than it should be.\u00a0 The leaves are starting to fall from the cherry trees.\u00a0 The vegetable garden is definitely looking worse for wear and the flowers are starting to exhaust.\u00a0 Last week the daylilies in the sheltered corner ran out of flowers.\u00a0 There are still some smaller ones (Stella de Oros and orange ones) but they\u2019re not the same.\u00a0 The cone flowers will last a good long time but there aren\u2019t anymore new flowers growing.\u00a0 The only flowers still to come are the Montauk daisies and the wolfbane in October.<\/p>\n

So summer is wrapping up.\u00a0 The kids go back to school in two weeks and pretty soon the end of season Dunwich Fair with its First Selectman dunk tank (win at your own risk) and free werewolf neutering clinic will be upon us.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s time for the party and goodbye Summer 2025.<\/p>\n

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