When I was a kid there was nothing more joyous than the last day of school That last minute seemed like an eternity! I swear the clock moved backward. Then finally… FREEDOM! No more pencils, no more books! Of course there was the required summer reading to do, but wasn't the last three hours of summer vacation enough time to read Stuart Little? The summer spread out in front of me like a big picnic blanket A little of this a little of that Nothing to do but think about what I was going to do.... Noteworthy achievements like: Digging the worlds biggest hole Seeing how many circus peanuts I could fit into my mouth Testing the duration of a thick piece of chalk by starting a line in my driveway and ending who knows where Seeing if it were at all possible to do a 360 on my swing set Making a tree house out of odds and ends around the yard Finding out if I could somehow contact my dead pets from the great beyond Making the world's longest da...