“The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either,” wrote musician (and philosopher) Mick Jagger. This time of year I usually have regrets. All the things I couldn’t stuff into my summer. Not enough lake time. Or fishing with grandkids. Or Technicolor sunsets. Or time with friends.
September offers one last chance to reclaim summer regrets, and Tuesday morning, with friends, I will dutifully hack up a neighborhood golf course faster than a rabid gopher.
I too am capable of a “fine whine” that sounds odd in mid-September: It’s TOO HOT for golf! Under sunny skies, with a drippy dew point near 70 degrees, highs approach 90 Tuesday — 16 degrees above average at MSP.
We are sailing into a wetter pattern as a storm stalls over the Northern Plains, sending pinwheels of showers and thunderstorms rotating into Minnesota Wednesday into Saturday. I see puffs of cooler air and a few more 80s the last 10 days of September.
There’s still time to go jump in a lake. Tick tock.
