{"id":19923,"date":"2017-08-19T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=19923"},"modified":"2017-08-19T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T14:18:26","slug":"a-to-do-list-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2017\/08\/19\/a-to-do-list-for-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A to-do list for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Checking number eight off the list. Photo: Melinda<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

There is only about a month of summer left. A few maples are already showing color in the St. Lawrence Valley. Not that there has been a whole lot of summer so far, what with all the frog-friendly weather.<\/p>\n

So time is running out to tick off all the boxes on your summer to-do list.<\/p>\n

No, not the list of deferred maintenance chores around the house, not the objectives you listed on your job performance review \u2013 the other list.<\/p>\n

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  1. Climb up until you run out of mountain<\/li>\n
  2. Watch a concert from a lawn chair<\/li>\n
  3. Look back down the wake at a swiftly receding island<\/li>\n
  4. Lick ice cream in a parking lot<\/li>\n
  5. Go on a midway ride<\/li>\n
  6. Cook dinner on the porch and eat it on the steps<\/li>\n
  7. Go off trail to check out an odd flower<\/li>\n
  8. Nap in a hammock<\/li>\n
  9. Follow a heron around in a canoe<\/li>\n
  10. Cool feet in a waterfall flume<\/li>\n
  11. Walk through a meadow before the dew has dried<\/li>\n
  12. Throw a Frisbee around<\/li>\n
  13. Look at the stars from the end of the dock<\/li>\n
  14. Stare into the coals of a campfire<\/li>\n
  15. Drive around with no destination but cool breeze<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It’s time to get busy with not being so busy. Tick tock.<\/p>\n

    I’m sure I left something<\/em> out. Let me know in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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