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Some birds sing while others gather grass for nests.

How do birds prioritize these kinds of things?

Very carefully I would say.

I don’t really know that I’ve seen a bird that sings while gathering grass for nests.

And I don’t know that it matters which it deems more important–singing or nesting.

In praise of nothing to do

Vacations that I go on tend to be free-flowing in terms of what I do.

I do not like having a packed schedule of things “to do” while on vacation.

If I don’t do my share of nothing it will be as if I’m not even on a vacation.

Let’s face it, you can’t recharge if you have an agenda of action items.

While staying home or on staycation, sometimes you have to make sure you have down time. This is because it’s easy to get locked in to doing things in the yard or elsewhere in the house that could take up most of a day.

I’m lucky in the sense that my wife helps keep me on point so that we tend to neglected things, and still have time for fun activities, like attending a minor league baseball game as we did last night.

In search of balance: Elusive or completely unattainable?

I suppose it’s the whole balance thing that can trip us up.

Balance can be elusive. If you don’t have enough of it, you can fall–metaphorically and/or literally.

One of my staycation/vacation guilty pleasures is occasionally wondering what it is those who are working are doing.

You can’t goof off on a staycation as otherwise you’re missing the point of being off in the first place–you have to be more off than on! Hence, and like my old saying goes, it is better to be more off than on, lest you fall prey to becoming a moron.

Anyway, now that you’ve read the low points in this missive, I now move forward to the cream of this here crop.

Cream of the crop

Part of being on staycation must include a healthy dose of playing the game “What if?”

So, without further ado, here goes:

What if you could wriggle your nose and have all the weeds and crabgrass that substitute for real grass, become beautiful grass like that found at a minor league ballpark?

I think that would be very nice (is what I think).

How and when did meteorologists become so good at forecasting weather?

If you’re like me, and you remember when meteorology was the study of, well, meteors, you still find it unfathomable that essentially rock specialists have become synonymous with accurate weather forecasts.

I only say this because what appears to be rain clouds are gathering overhead as I approach and round third, heading for home on this post.

I’m sure I could find a local weather forecast that calls for rain soon.

So, while I’m on vacation or staycation I tend to not glance as often at things like weather forecasts, because one way or another, there can be no good whatsoever to come of it (other than knowing if it might rain).

Why bother losing 30 seconds to that?