Finally cooling into the mid-90s this week in North Texas. Rain forecast over the holiday itself - fine with me! I grew up in the Pacific NW where school always used to start right around Labor Day. Down here in Texas it starts mid-August, though in some hot years they've delayed it a couple of weeks so they didn't have to spend so much money on the air conditioning in all of those schools. (Texas doesn't waste spend money on air conditioning in prisons either. There are lots of court cases to do with cruel and unusual punishment because of illness and deaths in prisons due to the heat.)