Guilt No More Vacation

We have a busload of pictures to post here, or on Picasa as that seems to be everyone's weapon of choice in this family, but since it's late I will simply scrawl here a few rules for GNoM vacationing.

1. When you are preparing to leave the house for six days, be sure to take out the garbage. But that bowl of leftover chicken stew? That one that you put in the microwave to heat up for an easy lunch before leaving? Go ahead and leave that there. Its unique odor met us at the door.

2. Make sure you bring lots of books, but don't expect anyone to read them. Honeybee will chew on them, though, so it won't be a complete waste of time and gas mileage.

3. When luxuriating in someone's beautiful lake, and you want to dip Honeybee into the refreshing water -- take off her regular diaper and replace it with a swim diaper. Then, throw the used diaper onto the beach, and forget that it is there, because later, just as you are about to send Truckster down to the dock to get some other item, A BEAR WILL BE PLAYING WITH THE USED DIAPER. Photos to follow.

4. Bring two pounds of bacon. Wimp out on cooking it because it takes too much cleanup. Bring two pounds of bacon home.

5. Wash that canvas tote bag before leaving, throw in dryer, and then go on vacation. Make sure the dry-erase marker is in it, so that your dryer can be full of ink upon your return. Don't forget this step, because otherwise your vacation will be like everyone else's.

6. Check for ticks. Tomorrow.