LABOR DAY, the traditional end of the season in Nantucket. The tourists stop coming in droves as school starts up north right after this coming weekend. People have to go back to their regular lives. Some of my homeys are college professors who will be going back to their classrooms. The Kitty and the Oracle are staying around for a while. September is still hotter than Hell in Sarasota. The temperatures up here have been in the 70s during the day and the 60s at night. Many of my friends will still be here because they have work that allows them to be ANYWHERE on the planet in contact through the internet, or phone. They choose to be here until the weather turns... sometime in October. Some live here all year and do not seem to mind.
We came up here in May. It was a little early for the Kitty who found it damp and cold. Perhaps next year we will come up later. Yes. there will be a Next year in Nantucket. Things will change a little. The Dreamland Theater will open and parking will be worse. More walking and biking for me is NO hardship. The Film Festival, The Wine Festival, The Comedy Festival and the latest...the Nantucket Project will be back. We will likely participate in every one of them like we did this year. In the meantime, we will continue to walk and ride and go to the beach and just wander through this island. If I were home in September, I would leave my house, get in my car in the garage, drive out with the air conditioning at full last, drive to the mall or wherever. Jump out of the car into the air conditioned building. I would spend a total of 30 minutes a day in the sun and fresh air. The heat and humidity are just intolerable in Florida in September. The next month, the shoe will be on the other foot as Nantucket begins to get the chilling effects of North-Eastern winds and we will be grateful for living once again in the Florida weather. This "follow the weather"plan has worked out for us so far. I am not designed for oppressive heat or bitter cold.
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