Three-day weekend coming up
I don’t have any big plans this Labor Day weekend, only little ones. But luckily, the weather is supposed to be really nice.
How about you?
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I don’t have any big plans this Labor Day weekend, only little ones. But luckily, the weather is supposed to be really nice.
How about you?
The Columbia County fair in Chatham looks like a good idea.
Three Day Weekend, means just another weekend and holiday working at the office. Well, the office is my 2.5 acre yard. Lots to do (and I am really slowing down) before I leave on a 2 wk History Tour in France and the UK.
I will spend the weekend reminding my husband, who just had shoulder surgery, not to pick up anything heavier than one pound. He is not a person who can happily sit reading or watching TV. He needs to be DOING something. This will be a very trying time.
This Labor Day I shall do what I have done on dozens of previous Labor Days: give thanks that America does not celebrate our laborers’ holiday on May 1, as the Communist world does. I don’t want to give them that little iota of moral support.
It’s normally quite unbearable here in early September, but we’ve had several days of very slightly lower humidity, which makes all the difference. Maybe it’s the north wind from the weather pattern centering on the Florida hurricane.
Well, our dishwasher broke down this morning. 🙁 I’ll be doing a lot of dishes for the next week or however long it takes to get it fixed or replaced. It builds character – so my wife tells me. 🙂
This has been a very nice and somewhat dry summer. A few more days enjoying our patio and spent attending to the plants and raking the leaves that are starting to fall will be my activity. At my age, I’m grateful to be able to do that.
Soon enough, our wet, dark winter will be upon us for months of gloom. I’ll try to suck as much enjoyment out of these nice days as possible.
Father’s Day in Oz… Sunday.
So… probably going on a walk (as far as new knee will go) with wife, 2 of 3 daughters and the dog. Oldest and S-i-L will ring somewhere in the day.
Youngest is cooking dinner and I’ve put a nice wine down to chill.
Who needs more than that?
Going to a potluck that our neighbors are hosting on Monday. My husband and I just moved to Northern Virginia this summer from Philadelphia. The same neighbors organized a July 4th potluck in part to help welcome us. Everyone had so much fun that they’re doing it again. We have been blown away by the awesome people here. (We knew it was time to leave Philly when the convenience store across from the police station had armed robberies occurring in daylight hours. And we lived in one of the “good” neighborhoods.).
These 3 day weekends don’t mean as much as they did while employed and not retired. Second, after moving we are farther away from friends and family, so the traditional get togethers aren’t happening. Granted, we’ve enjoyed our move and the new house, but there is a down side of being a bit more isolated. And, the daughters are now truly young adults (around 30 yrs) and are busy with their own lives.
We just had a Murphy bed installed yesterday in my study with numerous bookshelves, so my task for this holiday is unpacking a lot of physics texts and class notes (why I’m keeping those I’m not sure), and other mementos and golf trinkets. I was enjoying the rather “lively” acoustics of the almost empty room with my guitar, but the room is certainly becoming a bit more “dead”. 😉
Cruising the news for another half hour then diving into working on the next to last book in the series.
It’s been a long and pleasant yet arduous writing journey and although I’m very happy the series is almost out of my hair, i’m’a gonna kinda miss the characters. Almost twenty-five years is a long contention.
After that I’m going back to painting and sculpture.
Mostly.
It’s going to be 99 here in the Chicago suburbs. I had plans to get out on my motorcycle, but not doing that. Maybe a couple of movies in the sweet sweet air conditioning.
Reading. Relaxing. Girlfriend and I take her granddaughter for a birthday dinner since her parents are POS.
physicsguy, I see the words “bed,” “bookshelves” and “Murphy” in the same sentence and I get concerned. Have you built in sufficient safeguards for this physical construction?
Phillips,
Professionally installed and securely attached to the wall. Quite a nice design as there are shelves in front of the bed that slide to the side for the bed to open up.
https://www.morespaceplace.com/jacksonville/madison-bookcase-bed/
That Murphy bed is slick!!
Agree with Kate. Sounds like one of those YouTube woodworking projects I like to watch.
The three-day Labor Day weekend used to be a favorite time for East Coast weddings during the Depression and the early WWII years, because family and friends had an extra day for travel, the worst of the summer heat was usually over, and it was much too soon to worry about snowstorms. My parents were married on Labor Day weekend in 1937, on Sunday, September 5 to be exact, and the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad made it easy for everyone living between Harrisburg and Philadelphia to get to Lancaster without worrying about traffic on the pre-Interstate two-lane roads of the 1930s.
I obviously wasn’t around at the time (later, when I asked my mother why it took them 11 years to have me, I got a two-word answer: “Blame Hitler!”), but my grandmother told me that the weather for the wedding was ideal, sunny but not hot, and the reception could be held outdoors beside the church. Weddings were a lot simpler then because of the Depression; my mother and her bridesmaids made their own gowns, and the refreshments at the reception were provided by both extended families. My parents took the Pennsy to Philly for their honeymoon, which was still an attractive city to visit in the 1930s. How much has changed, in so many ways!
A happy Labor Day weekend to all of Neo’s readers.
Staying home. Gas high and going higher food prices high. Taxes high. Supporting migrants on my dime. Crimes in cities blacks shooting blacks and nobody cares thanks democrats
Dog sitting and a touch more hurricane cleanup.
Mainly work and reading. Getting ready to file an amended tax return for 2022. I hate tax paperwork. Especially when I have to redo it because of my own errors.
Also messing around with the goats. Have a couple of young Billy Goats I isolated from the young females to sale. Built them a temporary pen but they have mostly eaten down the weeds so I have to pull up weeds and cut limbs to throw to them . Be glad when someone buys them.
Also fighting crazy ants. They have moved into the area and are harder to deal with than fire ants. The crazy ants will not take some of the commercial baits that fire ants take. Mixing Borax with sugar to kill some but there are so many
My weekend started with a text from a neighbor that they and their grandkids had been attacked by a swarm of Yellowjackets they think came out of the ground by our gate. The swarm chased them home and even got into their house and attacked them there. I went out to reconnoiter. I discovered a small volcano with an opening the size of a quarter vomiting out Yellowjackets. As I am allergic to them and had to be rushed to the hospital the last time I was stung, I fell back. As I was preparing the assault, I discovered a second entrance or second nest. An army flew out and attacked. I ran.
The first people to cross the Olympics wrote about the swarms of aggressive Yellowjackets.
physicsguy: ” … physics texts and class notes (why I’m keeping those I’m not sure).”
Be careful there, or you will be asking yourself the same question in 15 years. 🙂
I got rid of most of my text books, keeping only a dozen or so, so far, but they should go, too.
Did manage to discard about 10-20 reams of file folder notes, but I still have 30+ reams to go. Amazing how much we tie ourselves to our work and work products. I know other retirees who have been more successful in deleting their employment past.
R2L,
I got rid of about 90% of my texts when I retired and had to clean out my office. I only have a single shelf of one or two texts from Intro through QM.
Yes, the class notes are true work products. 3 ring binders, one for each course. Looking through them they each could easily be turned into a text book; which I know is how many physics books start out. I do have an app into the local junior college for any visiting lecturer need they may have. No calls yet. But all I would need for that is the Intro notes and intro lab sheets.