So what to do? Plan your next four weeks - every single day. What will you do? It's entirely up to you. I started my calendar last week and I still have some blanks to fill in but I'm going to accomplish as much as I can. We have two days scheduled for Out and About Stuff, cleaning closets, shopping for floor tiles, etc., and two days of Away Stuff, going to the beach, going to Grounds for Sculpture, visiting Daddy at work for lunch, and one Home Day, wear pajamas all day and just do nothing, sweet-summery nothing. Hopefully those coincide with the Rainy Days!
If you don't know where to begin, look up your State Parks. There are lots of things to do out there. Even looking a good old fashioned map and finding a little watering hole would be great. Pack a chair, a fishing rod, and a sandwich and you're good to go. Go to your library on the way - Librarians always know where to direct you and they can give you a good read for when the fish aren't biting.
Here's another great site National Recreation Trails. We found one so close to home we can ride bikes there. You never know what's right around the bend.
Here are the picks I took:
Isn't this amazing? Apparently it was an ice house back in the day.
The main house, newly renovated. The funny thing is, I used to ride my bike here when I was in high school and it was all overgrown and hidden and I felt I'd found a secret garden house. So cool.
When I peeked in this crack in the door I half expected to find someone looking at me!
Beautiful.
Great old kitchen in Cook's Blue - the color they believed kept flies away!
Picture a part out here in 1890...
Marble slab step.
Through the window.
Easy to find and enjoy!
On our summer travels this year we've been taking a lot of back roads, either to avoid traffic or find a little off beat path. Usually to avoid traffic. But we've been surprised when we are back there on the back roads, little old farm houses, a park with paths and lakes and streams, all kinds of stuff. When we see that Detour sign, and we're forced to make alternate routes, we feel that sense of dread like we may never get home, that our destination is just too far away. But then we see little reminders that there is no rush. That the journey is a good one and we'll get where we're going, even if it's a little longer, a little slower.
In our busy lives we feel the same way when the job doesn't come through, when the kids get sick, when we get sick. When someone has hurt us or something has struck us, a fire, a catastrophe, an accident. Yet sometimes these are just reminders to look at the Back Roads, follow the detours and we'll find our way to our destination, our dream job, our dream house, our dream, even if it's not the path we imagined - it may look more like a trail that goes no where. But slow down a little, the signs say. Look up and around. Sometimes we have to go back to go forward. Just around the bend. Pearl Jam has a great song "Around the Bend." There's a Sun Around the Bend. And it might be closer than you think.
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