Work is good

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Labor Day has come and gone, but memories of it still linger in my mind. We were sitting at the picnic table on Labor Day and Marge commented that here we were working pretty much all day and others were taking the day off. So eventually we got to talking about what we used to do as families on Labor Day when growing up, and we couldn't remember. Knowing Dad, we probably went fishing. Might have gone to Three Corners, down to the dam or maybe up to Sand Pudding. But we probably went to some lake somewhere.

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