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VACATION

There are a lot of nice things about having visitors but there is a special surprise; we get a vacation too! One would think that it would be more work, but one would be wrong.

We make no special events or take any special effort. Visitors are on their own. Meals are a little more complicated with varied tastes and all but I even manage to simplify that; meat, carbo and salad. No dessert.

All the routine stuff gets shoved here and there. We try to live a 'normal' life with the same routine when people are here but, in reality, that is an illusion. And a good thing it is!

What actually happens is that the pace slows to that of the guests comings and goings. We do some things that we normally do not do, recreationally speaking.

We spend more time in our back yard; the pool, the grassy area. We sit. We watch kids, if there are any. We talk slowly. We adopt the mood of the vacationers who are drugged by the hot dry air, the lack of an agenda.

Before we know it, we are back to the times that we came here on vacation; nothing to do but melt into the heat and sun. Take a dip. Relax.

Yeh. "Relax"? you say, "from what"? Retired? Stress? Well sure. It doesn't matter what part of the life cycle I am in, I can stir up tension. I can get 'behind' on my do list even when there isn't that much to do.

So I am sitting back for a little while. We are on the beach. Well, the pool. It's vacation time again.