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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
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 Posted - Jul 04 2008 : 1:35:16 PM
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STAY-CATION! (I heard the term coined this am on NBC) and I thought what a great thing to call it. I love our home and I enjoy doing things right here. With the gas prices we are going to need to get creative and see how our own communities are a great STAY-CATION instead of going on a vacation! We can play games with our kids, learn a new hobby, work on the hobby we already have, spend time outdoors, have neighbors over and have a BBQ- make homemade icecream, learn a new trade, or do something for your community- teach a class on scrap booking, wood working, quilting something you enjoy doing that someone else would benefit learning from, go to the library and enjoy the peace, go to the local swimming hole. There are so many things we can do right here that don’t cost anything. Or you could go to a museum or something else like that. A vacation is just some time you get to have off from your job you don’t necessarily have to go anywhere or do anything you just need to relax and enjoy yourself. So C’MON EVERYONE let’s go on a STAY-CATION!
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2008 : 1:41:25 PM
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I could not agree more! I have been hearing this term staycation, too....in fact there have been a series of newspaper articles about the locations near to us (we are in Florida) that are heavenly vacation spots and only take one tank of gas or less. But to be home, with friends, and good food, and games, hobbies, gardening.....that is a blessing. And I love it best of all. We are lucky here, to be 30 minutes from white sandy beaches, but there is beauty in every state of this country!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2008 : 4:44:00 PM
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WE were just taking about that too. I gave my 11 year old a little mini assignment to find all the things we havent yet done in our area.. that he would like to do or to visit.. I was surprised by the things and the amount of things.. So it is Staycation for us too.
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
890 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 12:31:20 AM
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Mine was a staycation of sorts this weekend too. We went to my friends cabin, which is 45 minutes away. We had a great time, and watched a fireworks competition between two neighboring cabins. It was a great time despite the nasty skeeters who chomped through three layers of bug spray and jeans.
The rest of our "staycations" are possible on a tank of gas (roundtrip) or less.
But then again, they have always been, so I guess I was actually ahead of the pack for once. LOL
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
Edited by - kissmekate on Jul 05 2008 12:33:08 AM |
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italianchildhood
True Blue Farmgirl
172 Posts
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Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 04:56:22 AM
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I have been doing staycations for a while. I happen to like where I live, we do all kinds of day trips and events, it's I think much more relaxing than going somewhere.
The world has caught up... :)
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 06:21:40 AM
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That's a great idea! Have you ever googled "What is there to do in Somewhere" (Insert your town name)? I suppose it won't work for everyone but it gave me lots of good ideas and mini reviews of the places around town. Also, calling Parks and Recreation can give you a good idea of hidden parks that might have fun things to do. There is a City swimming pool about 3 blocks from my house that only cost $3 to swim at!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 07:49:33 AM
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We never take vacations-it has always been stay-cations. We love our place and when Hubby takes time off from work we spend it here doing things we want to get done.
Lillian |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 2:53:27 PM
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I'm doing a staycation this year, too. I'd never heard the term before now and have done that in the past just to have a break from all the whiners (defendants) at work.
I'm at a point that I'm going to max out on my vacation time at work, so I'm taking the first two weeks in August. We have NO money to play with right now as we're eeking it out on my salary alone so I planned to just putter in the garden and yard and get things done (at my own pace) in the cooler part of the day (maybe I'll finally get all the dirt into my herb garden) and experiment some in the kitchen with MaryJane's recipes when it gets too hot to be outside (I really want to play with the chillover powder and bakeovers). Chat more with you gals, sleeping in or sipping my tea at sunrise without thinking about work. Make some more baskets and aprons. Not look at the clock. Eat when I'm hungry and not because it's "that" time. Go hike up the mountains, swim in the creek or whatever else comes to mind and strikes my fancy. Man, that sounds so good, I can hardly wait.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 8:27:17 PM
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i surely must admit that i love BOTH! can't imagine not travelling and seeing other parts of the country and world in this lifetime though. i brought grandson lucas HOME to Kentucky (from his home in toledo, ohio) for a week .. (which was somewhat of a STAY-CATION VA-CATION .. we borrowed a couple kentucky boys and had wonderful fun at the beach, canoeing on the river, hiking in the woods, cookouts and campouts, golfing, biking, playing baseball, playing board games, digging in the gardens, playing with the dogs, and travelling a couple hours away to KENTUKY DOWN-UNDER to an Australian petting zoo .. where they learned to play the digeridoo .. shear sheep .. feed baby lambs .. milk a cow, throw a boomerang, pan for 'jewels' .. going into a cave deep beneath the earth .. petting kangaroos and feeding exotic birds by hand .. and so much more.
yes, we did 'travel the roads' a bit to have some of these adventures (don't have any buried treasure (jewels) ... although we have indeed made treasure maps and dug up treasures right here at freedom valley farm for our grandson) .. but we have no wallabees, pet pythons or kangaroos .. and that was SUCH a grand adventure for these little Kentucky boys and Ohio boy.
honey hunk and i travelled up to ohio to meet his dad half-way (to deliver him back to his mom and dad) and to go to a huge 'theme park' to see grande fireworks and the grandson of the Karl Wallenda beat his grandfather's record:
On July 4, 2008, Rick Wallenda surpassed a high-wire distance record set by his grandfather Karl. Rick walked 2,000 feet on a high-wire at Kings Island amusement park (just north of Cincinnati, Ohio).
I'll post pictures of his daring act soon .. we stood right under where he walked!
The Flying Wallendas is the name of a famous group of circus act and daredevil stunts performers, most known for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net
now i do plan a 'stay-cation' for the next few weeks .. ha! mostly to DUST!!!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Edited by - CabinCreek-Kentucky on Jul 06 2008 1:10:11 PM |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9094 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 06:54:00 AM
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I saw the footage from that high wire act. NO NET!! Not sure if I could watch that, yippes. Sounds like you had a busy week. NOW WHAT??
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 07:00:51 AM
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Frannie - that high wire act - hope your honey hunk, the mountain climnber and etc., did not get any ideas :)
....sounds like you had a great and very busy week! Whew!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 1:09:08 PM
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WELL GURLZ ... this week is going to be spent hangin' with honey-man .. (we actually WEEDED gardens all day today!) we pulleld out a HUGE bush that was obliterating the cabins .. have a really pretty one that i think has to go to. lilac bush (HUGE) .. but i don't like that i can't see outdoors from one of the kitchen windows! the cabins are DARK anyway .. and to put trees or bushes near the windows makes it even darker! pretty .. but just mis-planted in the wrong places. i've also started taking 'pretties' off the walls in anticipation of having the entire inside (additions) painted .. and OUTSIDE too! and the floors need a fresh coat of paint too! i'm constantly bending over to pick up a 'leaf' or something only to realize it's a CHIP! could be charming .. but i see it as just in need of a fresh coat of paint. none of the walls (or floors) that we are painting are 1800's!
oh lordy! i also SWORE to twigsy that i would get my Mercantile Gatherings article in TODAY .. and now we're talking about going to to dinner and a movie this evening! i may be up all night!
i have to TOTALLY re-vamp my booth at Glovers Station Antiques Mall .. haven't touched it in TWO MONTHS!!! i think some of the things i take off the walls .. i might just use this opportunity to not put them back.
oh gosh! i realized i got off the STAY-CATION subject .. but i guess my idea of a 'stay-cation' is to get some projects done around the farm!
i am keeping my july/august/september pretty much open to go back to help with the kids again just before frankie starts back to school and wednesday heads back to work after her 'materinity leave'.
i miss that little dude already! i was looking around for him this morning!!!
RICK WALLENDA .. we were wondering what he would do if he fell .. i think he knows how to GRAB THE HIGH-WIRE .. and we think they would 'slowly unwind it' to the ground for him. he often screamed: STEADY THE ROPE!!! they had 'park kids' holding the rope taught from both sides of it. he looked like the 'villian' in a olde-timey melodrama up close! he had a very nice smile though!
ha! honey .. i don't think you would catch my man on a HIGH-WIRE with no net under him. it is funny .. cuz' it is easy to walk along a skinny line and stay there if it is DRAWN on the ground .. but lift it up off the ground and I'M FALLIN'!!!
pretty day here in kaintuck .. hot-ish while we were doin' yard work .. but i'm sittin' in front of a fan right now at this computer contraption! well .. i gotta' peek at some other topics and answer some e-mails .. and get dressed for my DATE! happy fourth of july weekend!
by the way .. we are celebrating our 32nd anniversary .. July 4, 1976!!!
xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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AuntPammy
True Blue Farmgirl
488 Posts
Pamila
williamstown
wv
USA
488 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 1:38:32 PM
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A stay-cation- hum, I learn sumthin' new here everytime I check you alls out! Me and my loving family are ending our summer vacation tomorrow :( We stayed home and built a lovely deck in our backyard. My loving husband is finishing up two anorondack(sp?) chairs as I write this. We had lots of cook-outs and had loads of friends over. It's nice to stay up late, watch fireflies, listen to the frogs in our pond and just be.My husband asked if I wished we had went somewhere this year? I think I'm going to go out right now and tell him this has been a wonderful va no, Stay-cation.
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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