I can’t believe summer is already over. Well officially it’s not over till the 21st, but in my book it ended Labor Day weekend. Even though the temperature here in beautiful Virginia Beach, Virginia is still in the 90’s. It went fast and we had a blast!

Like I said, for our family, Labor Day marks the end of summer. We had our annual friends and family Labor Day camping bash. Four days of fun in the sun. We were swimming, tanning, boating, hiking, biking and cooking on the grill. It is our annual end of summer family ritual. We almost need a vacation to recuperate!

If you are a regular here, you know I didn’t post much this summer. I spent almost all of my spare time with family. We had several back yard barbeque’s, pool parties and Birthday get togethers . We took our annual B-Family summer vacation in New York City. We had a awesome time!

Also, I try to get off work at a decent hour during the summer to do things with my family. We enjoyed weekly movies, board games, walks and going to the beach. We play hard all summer long!

But now it’s time to get busy!

We don’t do much work around the house during the summer (outside of normal chores). I save my projects for the fall. The weather is cooler and it’s easier to work outside. I have a fairly large to-do list right now and I am about to get working on it this weekend. It’s sort of like spring cleaning but different!

The hardest thing to do is get motivated to work around the house. But I have a plan that I have been following for several years now. I get all my projects out of the way in the spring and fall. This leaves me with maximum play time in the beautiful summer months. Knowing that I will be able to relax and enjoy myself all summer long is pretty good motivation to stay on track. I make myself a checkoff list with everything I want to accomplish.

Here is my to-do list that I plan on completing by Christmas.

• Build a 20′ - 2 tier work bench in the garage
• Clean out shed
• Build housing for our well pump
• Hang 8 new interior doors

There are other things, but you get the idea. I am going to build the work bench first because it is going to take quite bit of time. Also, other smaller projects like cleaning out my shed depend on the bench being completed. I plan on moving most of my tools to the new garage and need the bench in place.

I also have another list of yard work that needs to be done over the next month or two:

• Till vegetable garden
• Turn compost
• Prune trees and shrubs
• Plant grass seed

So, as you can see I have my work cut out for me. I will take a break during the month of December and resume with a new list of projects in January.  I will try to get all of my projects wrapped up by sometime in the Spring. That way, when summer arrives, I will have maximum play time!

Can you relate? Do you have a list of Fall projects? OR am I just plain crazy….

Our campsite

The view from our campsite

Out on the lake

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