enjoy living day

The Great Outdoors
Feed the ducks at the park.
Cut some fresh wildflowers for your table.
Go fishing.
Hike somewhere with pretty scenery.
Go jogging with a friend.
Take your dog for a walk.
Get a group of friends together for a water balloon fight.
Try to find out about little-known waterfalls in your area and explore to find them.
Volunteer for a non-profit association.
Go camping at a place you’ve never been before.
Learn how to sail a catamaran.
Visit a farm with a friend.
Go off-road mountain biking.
Take horseback riding lessons.
Find a quiet place with beautiful scenery to read a favorite book.
Find a wildflower information book and explore to see how many flowers you can identify around your town.
Go kayaking.
Start a garden.
Run through a water sprinkler.
Organize a barbeque with the neighbors.

Recreation
Run a 5K race or fun walk just for fun.
Join the local community orchestra or choir.
Take ballroom dancing lessons.
Take up a new instrument.
Write a humorous poem.
Go see the nearest symphony orchestra.
Read to grade school children.
Join a recreational basketball or volleyball team from the local community center.
Go to a nearby coffee shop and listen to any intellectual conversations going on.
Become a mentor to a student that wishes to enter your profession.
Organize a scavenger hunt for friends and family.
Listen to a new genre of music.
Explore small shops downtown in your city.
Send a postcard to a child.
Ask a veteran to tell you some if his or her favorite stories from years in the service.
Send flowers or a card to a friend just for fun.
Go to a music store and try out all the grand pianos.
Go shopping to find a gift for someone who has been kind to you.
Go visit your alma mater to see what has changed since you graduated.
Go watch a high school play.

Around the house
Bake some cookies for your neighbors.
Buy a pretty house plant.
Try out a new kind of tea or coffee.
Make gift baskets for a local charity.
Start a canned food drive for needy families.
Mow an elderly neighbor’s lawn and talk with them afterward.
Find an ugly corner in the yard and turn it into a small garden.
Try out a new recipe for supper.
Take a bicycle ride.
Organize a neighborhood-wide game of sardines.
Take some time to look through old family photos.
Invite friends and family over for supper.
Start a scrapbook.
Get the family together and watch old home videos.
Let a child help you give your dog a bath (this doesn’t work so well with cats)
Make your own root beer. As an added benefit, this is also a nice money saver.
Make up your own variety of smoothie with your favorite fruit.
Start a practical joke war with a sibling or long suffering friend.
Record yourself singing a friend’s favorite songs and give the CD to them.
Save a snowball in the freezer and get to throw it at someone on a hot summer day.
Make your own fountain with Diet Coke and Mentos.
Camp out in the living room with your kids.
Build a fort out of cardboard boxes.
Make homemade ice cream.
Listen to your old cassette tapes or records.
Call your parents just to say “hi.”
Help your kids make homemade cards for relatives.
Check out a book of jokes and read it.
Build a house out of cards.
Make a gingerbread house during the summer.
Print some digital pictures and hang them in your house.
Repaint a room with a cheerful color.
Rearrange your furniture.
Put your TV in the closet for a month.
Reupholster an old piece of furniture.
Make a slip ‘n slide for your family. (keep safety in mind)
Make a pie, draw or paint a picture, or grow and arrange flowers to enter in the county fair.
Help your kids make cards for nursing home residents.
Explore iTunes for new music to listen to.
Try out Pandora Radio.

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Today, an unfamiliar thing happened in the Patriots media room. Logan Mankins showed up. No, really, he did.

The Pro Bowl guard, who had been sitting out since the summer, signed his tender and will practice today. Why did he come back?

“It was just time,” Mankins said today in his first public comments in a long, long time. “I had my reasons for the date that I came back, but I won’t explain it to everyone.”

Why many assumed Mankins was out in California the whole time, Mankins said he actually has been in the Foxboro area. He’s seen the players, he’s hung out with them, he’s remained close.

“(I’ve been) hanging out, playing a lot of golf, hanging out with my family a lot,” said Mankins, who recently had a new baby. “I got to spend a lot of time with them. And I’ve been training quite a bit. We’ll see today how it goes, what kind of sh`pe I’m in.”

Mankins didn’t detail his feelings on owner Robert Kraft, who he ripped when he decided to hold out. And he didn’t go back and discuss his feelings on sitting out.

“I’m just here to help the team,” he said, “help them get ready for Cleveland.”

As for his expectations of playing, Mankins said, “No expectation at this moment. Taking it day-by-day, see what happens.”

As for the business side of things, Mankins said “We’ll find out” if his sit-out was productive. On the topic of those in the higher-ups in the organization, he said, “I’ve talked to everyone here. We’re all on the same page right now. I don’t see that there should be any problems.”

How much did he miss it?

“Oh yeah, you miss it,” Mankins said. “It’s a game, it’s fun, that’s why you play. You always miss something you enjoy.”

Does he regret sitting out?

“Nah, maybe,” he said. “Not right now. Maybe down the road, I’ll look back and wish I didn’t. Or maybe I’ll be happy I did. We’ll find out.“