I've still got more than half of my allotted vacation days left to take at work, and the year is two-thirds over, so I'm gonna have to start using them up quickly. I'm taking tomorrow and Monday off for starters, and I hope to get some hiking done, as well as get started on building the kids' playset (and possibly even finish it). All summer long, I kept thinking that I needed to get out and do these things before summer was over, but in reality this is the perfect time of year for hiking and doing yard work. I hope to keep hiking until the weather stops me, at which point I'll have to find something else to keep me occupied until spring.