Well, here we are.
So much to talk about. There’s a summer on the way in and a pandemic on the way out. We hit 93 degrees on Sunday and 53 on Monday. We just had a bombing Tropical Storm Ana swell, it’s barely rained the whole month of May, and the ongoing drama of LBI pickleball gets more intense each day. As my brother joked, the pollen is keeping the chop down in the ocean like the kelp beds on the West Coast. We’ve had yard sales and forest fires. We’ve had traffic and traffic lights.
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