Today is my favorite day of the year… the day after Labor Day weekend… after all the gorging families and hope-filled tanners and barking children… have gone away… back to work and school and inland living…

I can almost accept all the trash and garbage these ill-mannered cows leave behind on the beach, knowing they’ll at least take the noise pollution away with them.

It feels like the day after a war has ended… the day after the circus left town… the air is filled with pretty peace and sweet silence… and I can hear the waves again…

Get off my lawn.