What are your plans for the first weekend of summer, the weekend after Memorial Day kicked off the season? You know that song, "Roll out those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer... those days of soda and pretzels and beer!"
The possibilities are endless. If you live near a body of water and it's warm in your area, you might end of at the beach. Warning, according to the show, "Beach Patrol", it is illegal to operate a jet-ski while drunk. Just sayin'.
If someone in your family is the Master of the Grill, (or is under that deluded impression) you may decide to have friends over for a meal that includes something broiled over hot coals or propane gas. Who can beat parboiled pork ribs finished off on the grill with a tangy sauce?
Maybe it's already too hot for much activity outside in your neck of the woods, and your perfect weekend consists of renting dvds and catching up with Hollywood. That's okay, but you should include some classic Americano summer movies like, "10", "American Graffiti" and "Meet the Fockers." (Which just happens to be one of my all-time faves).
Let us know what your plans are for this weekend. If you don't have any, you have approximately 10 hours to make some. Get busy!
Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you our plans! On one day we'll do yard work interrupted by frequent rest/reading breaks on the deck. The other day we're going geocaching for the first time this year. Geocaching is almost too much fun for an adult person to have.
Happy weekend to all, and to all a good night.
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I'm off to Victoria BC tomorrow - doing a one week course in digital editing... then back for a day before I head to Peterborough for 2 more weeks - one on editing theory and then one on editing practice. Sounds like fun, eh?
Wow! You really are a party animal!
flit-I think I just dozed off reading your plans. What is the expression, "different strokes for different folks"?
You just wear your boogie shoes and stay packed, don't you, flit? Have good trips! I hear Victoria is beautiful.
I'm just relaxing with the kids this month. They have camps in July and then we'll go to Montana later in the summer when it starts to get hot.
Do the words "relaxing" and "kids" belong in the same sentence?
I should say, I don't have to make sure homework gets done and have breakfast on the table at the break of dawn. We don't have sports and other activities, either. They did drive me a little crazy the first two days they were home. I wasn't used to the noise level all day long, but now that their friends are coming over and they are going over to friend's houses, we are alright.
I went to a meeting about our ArtWalk next Saturday, tonight.
The rest of the weekend I'll be cleaning house and loafing.
I can dig the loafing part. Cleaning house, that's a different story.
Sounds fun, I plan on giving birth, seeing my daughter for the first time. Being a mom for the next 18 years. lol and the little wonderful things in between it.
That one is pretty hard to top!
What a show off! I don't think any of us are going to top that one! Good luck and have a healthy, happy baby.
I dropped the kids to their grandparents this afternoon and I am kid free until Sunday afternoon. I am supposed to be getting up at the butt crack of dawn to go to some yard sales. Now it's 2:30 and I'm not even asleep yet. Something about the kids being gone gives me a second wind. I have been cleaning house all night and now I can't get off the computer.
Have a great weekend Vicky.
You, too, Monica. Awww, there's yard sales every weekend, won't hurt you to miss a week. I intended on going to the Farmer's Market, but whoops, I'm not going to make it. Just enjoy the peace and quiet.
I did make it to the sales and found alot of summer clothes for the kids. It's just so much easier to go to the sales when I'm kidless. I also took a very LONG nap. About 5 hours long Saturday afternoon. It was like heaven!!
Going crazy is what I'll be doing. I expect a good amount of birdpoop in my eye should I make the mistake of looking up at the sky with any positive expectations.
My hero!
Birdie birdie in the sky
Birdie dirty in my eye
Me don't worry
Me don't cry
Me just glad that cows don't fly.
HA HA HA HA HA
Vicky, you are a straight nut. Me glad cows don't fly too.
Well today I'm just going to continue packing, but tomorrow I'm headed to Virginia Highlands Summerfest (an art festival) with Kat W. I'm also taking her to find her first geocache.
Oh a cache virgin. You've had your fair share of those, dearie! She'll never be the same.
Hey, did I tell you, that Garmin saved our bacon about a dozen times in it's "on the road" mode when we went to Pensacola. It's amazing how it gets you around and corrects your wrong turns.
We're doing yard work and pre-cooking in preparation of guests over tonight. We're going to have a bonfire to ward off the muffleheads, drink wine and laugh a lot.
Tomorrow, we're going to try to take our new paddle boat out for her maiden voyage. It has two built-in coolers, so we can stay out in the cove and paddle around the anchored yachts for a long time. We plan to try to annoy as many rich people as we can. Kind of like the human version of the mufflehead. I'll be packing the camera, so I'm sure I'll find something to write about in the excursion.
That's weird, my response to you disappeared. Maybe it's totally inappropriately popping up on a Jesus article.
Anyway, I said, Kevin should at least take a ukelele to annoy the yacht owners and you should wear a lei.
Probably annoy them more if they had a lay.
We'd probably sink our boat.
Learn all the words from the internet to "Paddlin' Madeline Home" and sing it whenever in earshot of rich people.
I'm going to a pan sale. Tomorrow, someone's coming to pick up our old couches.
I hope you get every piece you like, Janna, and that goes for pans, too. I'm becoming a Calaphon woman with my Macy's cards. I think having good pans is a big deal.
I'll be working in the garden, lavishing my plants with love. Specifically bracing my tomatoe trellises and tying the tomatoes up since they're growing so tall! Then I'll probably take a long bike ride.
(I thought summer officially began on the solstice.)
And weeding, of course. Weeding never ends.
If you can get Ina's "Plant Crack" recipe off of her, it might be worth a gift card to me, if ya get the drift ;-)
I don't make my "Plant Crack", or I'd gladly share the recipe. I buy it from a nursery about 40 miles from here.
If we had a chemist as a friend, maybe we could get it analyzed and duplicate it. :o)
What does this "plant crack" do? Is it some kind of plant food? I'm keeping my garden organic. I'm about to order TerraCycle Worm Poop to feed my babies
Mariana, who has lots of pretty posies, too, has convinced me to throw my leftover coffee on plants. I've been doing it, even if the neighbors think I'm nuts, and it does seem to work.
When you go into this place where they make the plant crack, what do you ask for?
I don't have to ask for it. I know where they keep it. They call it 20/20/20, or Triple 20. That's the composition of whatever is in there as opposed to Miracle Grow's 15/10/15. (I think).
Charles, it makes the flowers grow like crazy! They probably get to be about 3 times the size of what they would if I used Miracle Grow. Kevin relented and used it on the vegetable garden last year and we couldn't keep up with the crop. You've never seen anything quite like how things grow with this stuff.
But if you forget to feed them, do they come after you?
Feed me. Feeeed meeee!
I'm not messin' with that chemical crap. It's Worm Poop for me.
The Volkswagon Bugs are in town this weekend, so hopefully we will catch a few of them as they parade past our house. We have that family (his) reunion thing that I don't want to go to...but, the food will be good.
Take a good book. Don't worry about offending any of them. That's rude for them not to rally round the unknown one.
I got the soda... got the pretzels... no beer (but I lack the beer appreciation gene, so that's okay: if it just tasted better, I'd be all over it)... even got a breeze... the problem is, I'm... at work. So something's not right.
I stood in line twice and got your beer appreciation gene, plus mine which equals AA!
Work, on the weekend! Either you're very diligent or you work for retail.
Neither, actually! I selfishly took off two days this week for no damn good reason and am paying the price. Ironically (or sadly), I'm the boss. The up side is... no one else is here. >:-)
Oh, is it the weekend again? The only thing that means to me is the changing names of the days. And no soap operas. Retired, y'know. *yawn*
That's how it was around here when Van was laid off. We knew it was Sunday only because we got no mail. My Mom marked the weekends by being pissed off that her TV judges weren't on on Saturdays and Sundays.
Yo Sistah - it's still spring for me - my summers begin on the Solstice with a crazy parade...right now, I'm still up in Isabel, loving every minute of being here in a remote little mining town surrounded by all kinds of rusting junk and rocks - my two passions...today, the man will finish working on the plumbing and I'll start cleaning up Isabel in preparation for R's return later this summer or our Christmas/January visit...
More later Sistah enjoy your weekend! When will you be headed down south again? Salud
I'm glad to know you're still at Isabel. She must be so happy to have inhabitants this long.
In the fall we may go southeast to the Smokies. With Van working again, though, that really cut into our travel plans! Every silver lining has a cloud, doesn't it?
With what I thought was going to be a great start for the week-end, we were supposed to go last night to a despedida party for friends who were leaving for the Philippines soon and for another couple moving to Texas, but... my son showed up and dropped off their 4-year old daughter with her best friend for baby-sitting so... we stayed home instead.
We're still home and will probably cancel another party we are suppose to attend tonight, a 50th birthday party for a friend's daughter... I do want to go to it, who could resist crowing in someone's face that they have a daughter THAT OLD, already???
:-)
Tomorrow, I need to garden but I guess I will probably be trying to recuperate from chasing two Ragruts around. Sigh.
Time to go fix their lunch and another tea party later!
Duckie, is it legal to sub-contract out the babysitting? I know you're having a ball with them, though.
Yes, I always have a ball with the kids so, I don't really mind if they drop them off with me...!
I am working, watching tennis, and watching horse racing, in no particular order -- because the order in which I should be accomplishing all these and the order in which I actually plan to do them are two very different things...
I went furniture shopping with my sister today. Otherwise, I don't really have any plans.
It's not summer everywhere. It's cold here. The patatos aren't going rock hard, but the herbs are dying.
I still have all my summer clothes in storage... it IS too cold here yet, too!
Duckie, mine are still in transition. I've put away a couple of winter tubbies, but kept out some sweats and long sleeved nighties. I still wear my big fuzzy bathrobe in the mornings.
No immediate plans here!
I haven't gone crazy yet. That will happen tomorrow.
It's underway.
Gone crazy ✓
It's good that you set goals and meet them. I love checking things off lists.
Oh, I'm nothing if not dedicated and organized. Things roll along like a well-oiled machine here.
That's why this morning I only had to turn back twice for forgotten items.