Do you have your kids all ready to head back to school?

How about their Halloween costumes? Have you purchased those along with candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters?

And be sure not to miss out on the end-of-summer savings being advertised at stores.

Wait a minute — didn't we just flip the calendar to August? According to my calculations, as I write this we still have 49 whole days of summer left. Fall doesn't officially arrive until 1:19 p.m. Sept. 22.

I know weather plays a huge part in our seasons. Summer doesn't officially start until mid-June, and often we have hot "summer" days before then.

Winter arrives Dec. 21 this year, and as we know, we can have a lot of cold days and a lot of snow by then.

Still, why do so many people lament the end of summer almost before the last Fou

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