A little cheese with that?

[thirdthoughts]

Man, this always happens. If I don't go on any trips during time off from work, I inevitably find myself wondering, at the end of that time, whether I accomplished enough. (Yes, I am an oldest child.) I had high hopes for these particular two weeks, as I believe I mentioned in my last entry, and I've been a bit melancholy the past couple days as I

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[loonar]

Hmmm... interesting that you mention trips first but then never again. Given that you had all those rehearsals and shows, a "trip" (as in the overnight or longer kind) was sorta out of the question. But you did get to a Twins game and the Fair, and I'm pretty impressed with the garage roof thing. In fact, I'm pretty damned impressed, period.

But... I know what you mean about trips. That little venture two weekends ago to Palisade for peaches wasn't much of a muchness, but it was a (glorious!) change of scenery, and it was a full day plus a bit on each side in which Martha and I didn't do anything at all that didn't involve each other or did involve "hafta". That sort of thing is good for our souls individually and even better for that which is our soul collectively.

Still, I see several things in your (impressive) list that qualify handily as soul-builders, so I hope your recap had the desired effect of making you feel better about your time off. There's never enough time, of course, but if you let that fact keep you from enjoying the time you have, you just wind up with less.

Now if that little imp on my shoulder would just stop whispering about "practicing what you preach"... and cackling...

[thirdthoughts]

Yeah, what I really meant by the comment about trips was that somehow, if we go someplace during time off, I don't feel guilty about not getting lots of other stuff done. But even apart from that, I really wish my shows hadn't fallen quite when they did, so we could have at least gone camping for a couple days. We're hoping we can go out of town the weekend after our anniversary, though, so we'll have our chance soon enough.

I should mention--the garage roof really wasn't as impressive as it sounds, at least where my work is concerned. We weren't shingling or anything (although I have done that before)...I just don't know the name of the part of the roof we were repairing. It's the part that comes down from the edge of the shingled part of the roof, perpendicular to the ground--the front end of the eaves, if that makes sense. The boards were rotting away, so Allen replaced them. Mostly my job was standing on the boards to weigh them down while cut one end with a cordless rotary saw, and holding one end of the board up while he nailed the other end into place.

Thank you, though--it's nice to know the list looks better from the outside.

[thirdthoughts]

Oh--I believe the part of the roof we were repairing was the soffit. Although that is probably spelled wrong.