Firelands Rails to Trails

If you’re like me, when you get a day off after many days of working, you spend it doing household chores that piled up during the days you worked. Your day off then ends up being just another day spent working-except you’re at home working on the house and yard instead of in the office. Spring and summer bring additional chores around the house that aren’t there in fall and winter-like mowing, weeding, cleaning the garage, staining the wood deck, sealing the concrete patio, planting a vegetable garden, mulching. The list is endless. The weather is great so you long to be outside playing somewhere instead of tethered to the house doing chores.

Monroeville entrance to Firelands Rails to Trails

Spring and summer are the busiest time in the real estate business so days off for me are few and far between. I’m much more willing to settle down to household chores if I’ve done something fun outside first. Since we have this new, high-energy dog, Yogi, my choices have to include him. It reminds me of when my daughter was a toddler. Every morning we would take her on a long walk to a neighborhood park where she could romp on the playground equipment. The object was to wear her out so she’d take a nap and I could get some chores done.

The same is true for Yogi. If he gets plenty of exercise outdoors, he will be mellow the rest of the day. If he doesn’t, he will spend the day trying to “herd” us as we make trips up and down the stairs or going in and out of doors.