Hailey Ostrom is back defending summer at the lake armed with her golf club and bikini

My own wife has fallen victim to it. This weekend, while her parents were in town and the temperature was well into the 90s, she came home with a Halloween-themed bag. But all hope is not lost.

That is how you fight the creep of fall. Listen, fall is great, mostly because it brings with it football, but let's keep the Halloween decorations in the warehouse until fall arrives.

We do that by not purchasing the early arriving fall items and shaming those around us who do. We also fight the creep by smashing golf balls off of moonscape in a bikini.

Let's take a moment as we wrap this up to recognize and thank Hailey Ostrom for her continued support of and respect for summer. We're only gifted a limited number of them in our lifetimes.