It’s been a lovely long weekend, over, as always, too soon. The week ahead holds:

Sounds busy, but doable. What do you have planned for the upcoming week?

This is the sunset I was referring to in yesterday’s post. My photo doesn’t begin to do it justice:

I hope you had a nice week and are looking forward to a weekend that might include Small Business Saturday shopping around your town or maybe some baking or reading or crafting.

I’ll be spending the day with my best friend, Karen, which is always one of the highlights of coming north.

Last weekend’s list was overly ambitious, particularly since I was sick. This weekend’s to-do list is shorter, if not actually more scaled back:

• Do a couple last Coffeeneuring bike rides.
• Dig up my potatoes.
• Clean the bathroom and the kitchen.
• Sort through my clothes.
• Complete my socks.
• Finish Exit West

I’d like to include watch a movie on this list, but Rudi caught my cold, which caused us to cancel not one, but two, movie plans this week already and I just can’t bring myself to make it three.

How’s your weekend looking? What are you hoping it includes?

Here’s what I hope my weekend includes:

• Get some sleep. I think I’m fighting off the cold that’s going around the office. Also, drink a lot of orange juice and tea.
• Procure quarters.
• Do laundry.
• Go for a coffeeneuring bike ride.
• Meet Sarah for Crafty Bastards (the big annual craft fair)
• Write the Virtual Advent announcement post.
• Read.
• Finish my socks.
• Watch a movie.
• See what survived tonight’s frost/freeze at the garden. (I stopped on the way to work this morning and picked all the remaining tomatoes, peppers, and ground cherries.)
• Send out my Christmas party invitation.
• Clear off my desk and the coffee table.
• Bake a cake. (This one, above all the others, is contingent on not getting sick.)

How about you? What do you hope to do this weekend?

Some Halloween photos from around town:

(My colleague made these witchy cake pops.)

(Our IT department set up a haunted technology graveyard.)

This is this year’s Halloween costume. Only a very small percentage of people knew who I was … and mostly women of a certain age. I have faith in my readers, though…

Between being out of town last weekend and last night being lost to sheer exhaustion after a two-day work meeting, I have lots of plans for this weekend:

• It’s the first week of Coffeeneuring, the annual informal holiday period in which people ride bicycles in pursuit of hot drinks. So I’ll be doing that. Maybe twice.
• I have a dvd that didn’t get unlocked when I picked it up and I have books on hold, so a trip to the library is in order.
• We’re now in mid-October, so it’s fair game to hang up my Halloween lights.
• We’re nearly out of milk and eggs and probably need greens, so the farmers market is on the agenda for Sunday morning. We’re also out of cat litter, so that means a trip to the store.
• I chopped off my hair ten days ago and am still lacking in hair gel for my short ‘do. I’d like to rectify that.
• There is a mountain of laundry in the bedroom. Either we have to wash some of it or name it as a significant geological feature of the area.
• I think I can finish either the edging of my shawl or Little Pumpkin sock #1.
• Apparently, today is National Dessert Day. While I’d like to make a dessert, I’ll settle for eating some.
• The Freer/Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian are putting on IlluminAsia this weekend.
• No one has checked on the garden in a week. Probably someone should do that. Probably that someone will be me.
• I need to get to a yoga class before my pass expires.
• Complete my Cybils nominations before tomorrow night’s deadline.
• Trombone Shorty is playing at the new Anthem club down at the Wharf development along the river. He’s been on my like-to-see list for a while and tickets are reasonable, so maybe we’ll go check him out.

How about you? What are you hoping to do this weekend?