Schools Out For Summer!

Good Day everyone!  Kids are out of school and summer begins.  Vacations will soon be here and gone.  Long nights of catching lightning bugs, campfires with smores, and swimming in the lake or laying in the sun relaxing will soon be memories.  As a kid many moons ago, my family would take off to Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri just about every weekend.  Boating, skiing, floating in a tire tube (a real one not store bought) in the lake to cool off was the highlight of many weekends.  School back then would be out just before Memorial day and not go back in session until after Labor Day.  As a kid that was how you knew summer was over.  That last weekend in the Ozarks Labor Day Weekend was the final days of summer for us.  A long summer of fun, friends and family you treasure. If we were not there on weekends, we would be at home riding bikes, playing baseball frisbee in the streets, and of course or chores of cuttings grass and weed eating for money.  I remember when my brother Kevin would cut the grass and I would weed eat the yards with a handheld trimmer, for $2 the yard and $1 for trimming.  What a deal that was!!! We had  several customers in the mobile home subdivision we lived in at the time.  I would hold on to the lawn mover behind the bike and the trimmer while Kevin pedaled every yard we had scheduled that day.  Nowadays, you can't find a kid in your subdivision who even wants to cut your grass or snow shovel your driveway.  They are missing out on so much spare money plus the teachings of good work ethics.  I am so blessed to have grown up in those days and not now in the technology era.  Kids don't know what they are missing out on.  Parents, please show your kids the value of the $ and working for it.  It will help them in their future more than you know.  Value the dollar by buying second hand and recycling items instead of tossing or throwing away into our refuse.  Help each other, be KIND to one another and have  good old fashion clean FUN this summer with your family and friends.  Cherish those memories and never forget.  ENJOY!!!