Jay On The Go

Last weekend we were invited to a walk by some friends at the Cochituate State Park in Natick, MA, and to our horror when we arrived there around noon, the park was so overcrowded that the police would not even admit walk-ins.  We had to return home.  Yesterday, we went for a hike in the Hopkinton State Park that it would not be so crowded.  Oh how wrong we were.  It was packed with people and it seemed that everyone there was busy eating rather than hiking or engaging in any physical activity at all.  We have basically decided to not visit the parks during the weekends. So what is driving the overcrowding?   Well, since we have been in this area for more than a decade, we have seen more construction and development every where.  The other thing we noticed that almost no one in the parks speaks English and everyone seemed like an immigrant.  It seems that not only do we need to stop legalization of illegal immigrants we might need to limit legal immigration because we are destroyin

The spring and summer this year were warmer than usual (and we had to turn on the central air-conditioning a lot more frequently than ever before in Massachusetts since 2001) but then August (typically a hot, if not the hottest, month) has been fairly cool (I have had days when I have worn long sleeves and we are back to sleeping with a comforter) and in many ways autumn weather seems to have arrived early.  There is some good news, though, about the months ahead.  According to forecasters , fall weather will be warmer than usual.  We might see some wet, heavy snow in November but nothing to worry about.  It is also expected that we may not get much snow in December either.  Hopefully, we will have some to look at for Christmas, though.

Apparently, families like ours are so huge in number (one in five American women are child-free and intend to remain so with full support of men like me in their lives) that Time has done a story on them.  The fact of the matter is that idea of being parents is overrated.  To be honest, I cannot imagine life any other way.  Less worries, less hassles, and no fear that kids might turn out to be losers.  And for those of you who say that we are selfish, well, we are saving enough for retirement that so we don't need no one to take care of us (in fact most people that we know keep whining that their children do not even bother to call them -- they occasionally text).  The best part kid free couples are happier and prosperous .