Week 3

Apologies to my loyal blog followers who were looking for a new weekly update yesterday.  I’m on Okanagan time now. This past week, and for the next couple, I’m actually on sabbatical from my sabbatical. It’s our “official” annual family vacation at the lake.  This is where we would be, even if I was still “working”.  But this time around it does feel different. Way better.  No lingering work issues and email chains.  Straight to holiday mode.

I’m not sure that I’m going to be able to advance some of my bigger picture sabbatical goals during this time.  The days aren’t quite as productive. I’ve been sleeping in every morning, hanging out with the kids on the dock/boat during the day, and then happy hour tends to roll around pretty quick.  Although, now that I write it down, that’s exactly the goal of the sabbatical…

I’m still approaching vacation sabbatical life with the same philosophy and mindset, enjoy the moment and looking for new life experiences. For example, I tackled the Thursday farmer’s market on my own for the first time. What a scam that place is.  Spent more cash than that night in Vegas. I’m now considering growing Kale and making artisanal soap as a lucrative new career.  Although I will say that the $20 avocado lavender body bar is very nice.

This week’s (slightly less ambitious) project has been to develop a new Sabbatical Dad summer cocktail. Still working on the prototype but have landed on the concept: Spicy Watermelon Margherita. Tune in next week for the recipe.  (This is going to cost a fortune in mellons at the market on Thursday.)

Note that I’m slowly turning Sabbatical Dad into a multi-media empire.  Be sure to now check us out on Instagram at SabbaticalDadJon.

Also will try to figure out how to get a “subscribe” button on the blog for real time notification of new and exciting posts. I will message my website help desk in India. Let you know how that goes…