Hopefully your family is having a good summer. Now that the sandbars have formed, hopefully the kids are running across the flats at low tide and flopping into the water. (That is, when there aren’t ice chunks floating in it.)

Hopefully they’re riding waves – careening beachward bodysurfing, bodyboarding, on an inflatable swan or maybe the Heineken Surfboard you grabbed off the wall before the Quarter Deck got torn down.