Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so? – Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Possibly from reading those quotes maybe you can tell I will be taking some time off? Yes. Time away. A few days. Not going far. Staying pretty close to home. Resting. Reading. Cleaning. Raking. Hopefully! And whatever else I have the mind to do. If raining… reading, b&w movies, and napping. Good food. Just some down time. I’m hoping that Mother Nature will be agreeable.

The store will be closed March 24-26. I’ll be back in on Thursday (Mar 27) to finish the week in the store. We’ll see how this goes. That means before summer hits I might be taking off a few days here and there.

Thanks!

That’s why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. – Don DeLillo, White Noise