Today's guest post is from Gary Mihoces, loyal husband and sometime reader of Garden Variety. Gary, who covers the National Football League and just about every other sport for USA Today, offers his top 10 ten ways to know your vacation has ended.

10. You notice the grandmas and the grandpas at the beach are snapping at the grandkids.

9. You see an ad for a rib joint and think, "Nah. I've had enough of those."

8. You sign on and notice that your backlog of office e-mails has hit the 500 mark, while the number of half-drunk water bottles around you outnumber the full bottles by a 5-to-1 ratio.

7. You only have two rolls of toilet paper left out of a 24-pack.

6. You crave a simple glass of ice water instead of a those coconut-pineapple-five-kinds-of-rum drinks.

5. You have more sand in your car than they have at Normandy.

4. You walk around humming Jimmy Buffet's greatest hits, and find out all of your mail has been forwarded to Margueritaville.

3. You see it has been raining in Maryland and you know your grass will be a half-foot high. And you are happy to know you are needed.

2. You can't wait to get home to read the book you brought to the beach.

1. You are delighted to learn that NFL training camps are opening.