{"id":490,"date":"2012-05-22T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2012-09-09T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:52:15","slug":"gee-why-didnt-we-ever-______","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/gee-why-didnt-we-ever-______\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, why didn&#8217;t we ever ______?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was a beautiful day in Medford, MA.\u00a0 The sun was out, the birds were singing and all was right with the world.\u00a0 It was a great day to lounge on the deck and have a couple of brewskis.<\/p>\n<p>But we weren&#8217;t on the deck.\u00a0 We were sweltering in the 100-degree attic, doing a second round of cleanout in preparation for our second yard sale.\u00a0 So instead of thinking about those brewskis (though they would come later), I passed the time thinking about all the things we will regret not having done while we lived here.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there are many things that I will regret having <em>never<\/em> done, just because I have done most everything at least once, I think.\u00a0 I am sure there is much I will miss, but it is more along the lines of &#8220;Gee, I wish we could _________ again&#8221; rather than &#8220;Gee, why didn&#8217;t we ever _________?&#8221;\u00a0 There are a few things, though, that I have never done and would like to do before I go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend a day on Nantucket.\u00a0 I have been to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard and Block Island, but never Nantucket.<\/li>\n<li>Visit Amherst.\u00a0 I have heard nice things about it but have never been.\u00a0 Maybe we can drop in on our way west.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the Museum of Natural History at Harvard.\u00a0 I think I was there once, but Jett has never been.\u00a0 Gotta see them ol&#8217; dinosaur bones.\u00a0 And the glass flowers, too.\u00a0 And while we are there we can pop over to the Peabody Museum, which neither of us has ever seen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are lots of other things on my B list: Fruitlands Museum and the Higgins Armory, for example.\u00a0 But there is little chance that we will find the time to see these before we leave.\u00a0 No tears will be shed.<\/p>\n<p>But I will see if we can allocate a day for Nantucket.<\/p>\n<p>After the attic is clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was a beautiful day in Medford, MA.\u00a0 The sun was out, the birds were singing and all was right with the world.\u00a0 It was a great day to lounge on the deck and have a couple of brewskis. 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