Greetings From Gold Country Families E-Magazine:
June, is a month known for weddings, graduations, Summer Solstice, Father’s Day, BBQ’s, a time garden’s burst into life, and the fear of fire season ignites in rural resident's minds. Lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed-whackers, and hedge trimmers can be heard buzzing around neighborhoods. Mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects multiply quickly and begin feasting on gardeners, campers, walkers, and unsuspecting scantily clad sun worshipers. For “its already too hot” indoor air-conditioner aficionados, June signifies summer re-runs overwhelming the TV airwaves and mega-buck blockbuster movies saturating the big screens. June is summer time; time to get outside; time to vacation; time to get things done; time to have some fun.
With the weather warming, I’m always amazed at the length of my summer “Honey-Do” list. Now, either I’m just sitting around doing nothing all year long eating chocolates, or everything I own is deteriorating / growing at an alarming rate to be suddenly included on the extensive list. The most plausible theory though is that my lovely wife is being decisively creative, ensuring I don’t have too much leisure time hanging out with the guys playing poker, eating pizza, and guzzling, ah, I mean, sipping a few, hmmm… frothy mugs of lemonade. Some of the items on my list are important, some make sense to be done at sometime, and a bunch are, well lets face facts, meaningless busy work that is entirely negotiable for what I'd like to do.
On a personal stressed travel note, I’m trying not to worry too much about my kids frolicking about the globe; my oldest, having recently graduated from college, is backpacking all over Europe for three weeks, my middle daughter is semi-working all over China for six weeks, and my youngest has a boyfriend, which for all intents and purposes means she’s never home. So, this is what it’s like to be an empty nester (short-term); more time to worry about where my little chickadees are flying off to around the globe. Come to think about it more, there’s something seriously wrong with this picture; my kids are internationally traveling for weeks, and I’m here typing this editorial waiting for their “everything’s okay, having a good time” calls. Now, when I was their age, I was working my rear-end off to make enough money to buy $1.00-a-gallon gas so my fixer-upper umpteen year-old beat-up car would stay running so I didn't have to bum a ride to work. (oh my gosh, I’ve turned into my dad from over thirty years ago) Oh, how the times have changed; but the tune remains the same.
Welcome to the Summer of 2008, and don't forget to stop by and see what's new at Gold Country Families E-Magazine.
“Zai jian” (Good Bye in Mandarin Chinese)
Patrick Witz
Writer/Editor/Publisher/Photographer
Gold Country Families E-Magazine
A FREE Internet Travel, Entertainment, & Leisure Magazine[/color]
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