Jude 2

I know Labor Day is a big picnic day, but I was wondering how many people actually use the day for yard work, closing pools, etc?

We did some yard work and my kids protested, "but it is LABOR DAY!"

No work here!! Just grillin' and swimming!

Jinjer

Did a little housework, grilled kabobs and cut half the back yard then I got tired and left the rest for tomorrow.

yard work and closing pool

no fun for me, work work work. The only good thing about it is, I didn't have to get up and go to the weekly work place.

I spent the day cleaning out and rearranging my kitchen cabinets, everything is back in alphabetical order again. I have spent most of this weekend taking care of my dog, she is a 16 year old dachshund and the vet think she has a very serious infection. We have her antibiotics and I am hoping this takes care of it. Back to work tomorrow and waiting to see what Hanna decides to do.

We've been doing wedding prep all day long.

Jennifer Smith wrote:I know Labor Day is a big picnic day, but I was wondering how many people actually use the day for yard work, closing pools, etc?

We did some yard work and my kids protested, "but it is LABOR DAY!"

Took the day and played. Went on a 3 mile hike to some Ice Caves about a 45 minute drive from our house.

Great easy hike. The bridge across a shallow river had been washed out during a winter storm last year, so we had to wade across it. Water is less than an hour off the snow melt, so it was very cold.

My wife worked yesterday. We've got a wedding in Arkansas to attend this weekend, so she worked. Anyway, we've been working on the house. So, yesterday, I replaced the lattice under our back porch and shopped for concrete steps for it. Took my daughter to fly a kite for a bit behind the middle school close to our home. It was windy here yesterday (we got a fringe of the fringe of Gustav --- stiff breeze but no rain). Then, I went and pumped gas and cleaned at the store last night for about 6 hours. A tree fell on a power line up the road, gave us a power surge and caused our pumps to go offline, had to call the gas pump techs out to fix it (they did, in a jif), and had a customer gripe to me that he'd never return to our store (and dropped an f-bomb on me in doing so) because a new employee asked him to put a second phone number on his check. That was in the first hour ....

That is all I did Monday was house work. I have to work all week so when I get a day off I do house work and laundry. Only thing fun we did here was go to the park and walk some. And we did go to a flea market.

Finished up boot camp......
Did a death notification
Stood at "parade rest " for way too long during the graduation ceremony
Demonstrated the proper way to prepare an MRE to parents and siblings.

Loaded my gear...
Drove to Nashville ....changed from my uniform into shorts and tee shirt..
Got on a pontoon boat and went fishing for the rest of the day.....caught a fruit jar full of big ones Three perch and two catfish....total weight of all 5......6oz...lol

Came home and showered and died in my own bed..............

Dr. Ron wrote:Got on a pontoon boat and went fishing for the rest of the day.....caught a fruit jar full of big ones Three perch and two catfish....total weight of all 5......6oz...lol

Ever think of starting your own fishing show?

We visited my dad and "24'd" the rest of the spare time. Mary got season one at a used dvd place a while back. we decided to start watching it since it was pretty cheap and decide if we want to keep watching. It never seemed to be something I would be interested in when i saw the commercials.

needless to say, over the weekend, we bought season 2 and 3. I can't imagine watching something like that with a week between episodes.

Well get ready, January's comin'.

Actually I thought of Scooter. That Saturday I was in Milwaukee to visit with our son and our new grandson. They live a few blocks from Miller Park.

Harley Davison had their 105th birthday party. We watched as over 7,500 selected harley's came up out of the park and have their parade. some really awsome bikes. Bike clubs from all around the world were represented. It was kinda like the all nations flag march of the IO.

Labor Day we had great seats at the Brewers and Mets game. To bad they lost after such a great road trip.

Back in California now preparing to leave for Kenya and Uganda next week.