Sugar and Spice

The last long weekend of summer has come and gone.  *Sigh*.  When I was skiing full time the weeks after Labor Day Weekend were a mad rush filled with training, paperwork and other preparation for the ski season.  Fall didn’t really exist other than a crammed month of so of stuff to do before it [...]

A lot of people take vacation in the latter part of July, early August.  When I was a kid that was when the plant shut down and everyone took their 2 weeks.  I now live in a vacation destination and I have a different perspective of vacationers, they’re a big part of our economy here.  [...]

I wanted to do something to lift the summer doldrums of the dog days. People tend to come back from vacation and have a hard time settling back into daily lives after. Its still high summer and so very hot, but now vacation is over and no real holiday until Labor Day and that’s a [...]