Labor Day

Today is Labor Day, the unofficial last day of summer.  I do not enjoy this holiday weekend as much as I used to when I was a kid.  My wife had to work today and neither of us felt like cooking after she got home, so we settled for sandwiches.  This is a common occurrence for us anymore.

When I was a kid, my family would usually go camping, just like Memorial Day weekend and 4th of July.  We would go camping with relatives and family friends and take several spots in the campground.  During the day all of us kids would play and in the evenings we wold have a couple picnic tables side-by-side and have a massive game of Uno or sit by a campfire talking and roasting marshmallows.  The thing that made a difference between this and the other two three-day weekends is that we knew that this would be our last long weekend until the Memorial Day weekend, over 8 months away.  Between those two weekends we would have almost the full school year until we had the nice weather where we could spend most of the time outside for the weekend.  Knowing that, we mad sure that we made the most out off the weekend.  Anymore it is just an additional day off work, if we're fortunate enough to not have to work on the holiday.

I would like to see my reader's Labor Day weekend memories in the comments or how you spent the weekend or just the holiday this year.

I felt like listening to some vintage country while writing this post since that was the music that most of the adults in our camping group liked and wouldn't give us kids any say in the music and would have a radio playing a country station.  I now have an appreciation and like this music and have been buying a lot of vintage country lately.  I'm listening to Hank Snow's 1963 album I've Been Everywhere while writing this post.