Last night the wife and I had to stop at a large department store, Fred Meyer, to buy paint for one of our rental houses.
We were getting there late and we could not believe all the cars in the parking lot. The place was packed. When we got inside, we asked the checker what was going on.
She said that it was last minute shoppers, from Bellingham and the county, getting ready for school today. That startled me. You might say I was in a school daze. No longer having a kid in school, I had lost track of the time line of summer. I did not know it was time for the first day of school. It seems to me that I just read about the last graduation and school letting out for the summer. Now, that cycle is starting all over again, year after year.
The upside is that, in Bellingham, once school is back in session the library is open on Sundays again. I like that. Also, another big one: Crossing back and forth into Canada is much easier. That is good for an inspector who goes to Point Roberts a lot -- me.
Here is a song dedicated to back to school, and those students who are going back to that institution for yet another year. This has got to be the most famous school song that I know of.
Steven L. Smith
Bellingham WA Home Inspections
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