{"id":231,"date":"2010-05-31T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckroth.wordpress.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-05-31T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:24:17","slug":"ah-three-day-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Ah. Three-day Weekend(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The throes of my former three-day weekends have begun many<\/strong>\u00a0weeks beforehand with planning: reservations, food supplies, first aid to include\u00a0mosquito repellents and SPF-50 creams, does my bathing suit fit (the way I want it to?!), cleaning the house before I leave,\u00a0the comfortable clothes\u00a0packing\u00a0through a 5-day weather watch, check book balancing to make sure bills are covered, an automotive check list (tires, fluids, trunk room), house light timers,\u00a0and so forth.\u00a0 Add whatever else you personally prepare and\u00a0\u00a0we’re on our way.\u00a0 Don’t forget animal care, which in itself is quite detailed.<\/p>\n

Having gone through this routine for\u00a0several\u00a0years, I quit.\u00a0\u00a0The tasks-to-goals for comfort and care\u00a0to get from point A to point B\u00a0have become unabashedly tiresome.\u00a0\u00a0 Viewed as a ‘vacation,’ I think it is anything but!\u00a0 Highways, byways, parking lots, airports,\u00a0etc., are too overcrowded for my tastes.\u00a0 \u00a0Motorhomes, campers, trailers, ‘toy boxes,’ motorcycles, 4-wheelers and\u00a0ski-doos, have slowly covered my hi-way journey, blotting out scenery.<\/p>\n

Enough is enough!\u00a0\u00a0We stay home.\u00a0\u00a0Glorifying in the relaxed atmosphere of home\u00a0has been gratifying.\u00a0 Sure, we still take part in ‘going places far far\u00a0away’ for extra-ordinary activities, but not on a three-day weekend!\u00a0 The weekend before or the weekend after is when we\u00a0plan to escape the home scene.\u00a0 In this way, our final destination is always more relaxed, there is more room to enjoy all the sights, and we do not have to be so alert, anxious, and careful of the multitudes!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ah, three-day weekends – national holidays – are appreciated humbly as we raise our American flag, outside our front door in gratitude and remembrance.\u00a0 God Bless America and all<\/em><\/strong> its citizens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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