We have plans to get together with our friends on Sunday, but tomorrow I’m going to lay low because I either have a massive allergy attack (ragweed is sky-high right now) or a severe cold (our friend’s kid is snuffly today, too, as is a coworker who’s been traveling) going on and am feeling kind of miserable.

So I’m off to bed with my box of tissues.

Wishing you all a very good night!

As the sun sets on another weekend and — soon — on another month, I wish you peace, relaxation, and a lack of mosquitoes every time you leave the house.

It’s the first official weekend of fall. Here’s what I hope it includes:

• Spend time at the garden. (It’s one of the seasonal work days, plus I should plant some more seeds.)
• Catch a little more baseball. (We went to the game tonight, but I’d like to pull in a little of one of the Mets games before their season wraps up on Sunday.)
• Get crafty. (The year’s biggest craft sale in D.C. happens this weekend. I at least want to go look.)
• Bind off my shawl.
• Do some fall cleaning. (Some old friends will be in town in the next week and while our time together will likely not include a visit here (they have a little kid and it’s easier for us to go to them), I’d rather be prepared to be polite.)
• Paint my nails. (After the cleaning, obviously.)
• Refill the tea canisters.
• Do laundry.
• Finish The Library Book and get it back to the library.
• Get some sleep.

What do you hope to do this weekend?

In honor of the first full day of autumn, please join me for a warm drink. This is a pumpkin spice chai latte, but you can have tea or cocoa or coffee or whatever.

Apparently we have to drink those hot beverages now, because there’s a possibility of another heat wave coming through next weekend into next week.

In addition to buying books and yarn, I got some other things done this weekend.

Yesterday, I spent some time at the H Street Festival, patronizing a couple of the businesses over there and running into some friends who’ve moved back to the area this summer. And today, Sarah and I went over to Union Market for a little while to get a snack, catch up, and browse in the bookstore.

I also did some reading (Susan Orlean’s The Library Book), bought food at both the grocery store and the farmers market (we’re nearing the end of corn and peach season, but ginger and paw paws, which I only buy for Rudi because I think they taste like banana, are both coming into season), picked tomatoes at the garden, and made a tomato tart and corn on the cob for supper.

And, as a bonus, while I was at the garden, the sound of a concert at one of our local parks wafted over, so I was able to catch the tail end of that, too. (Usually, it’s in July, so I stopped checking for it, once summer had progressed.) It was a nice way to conclude the summer season. (Temperatures: please take the hint and pack up your highs in the 90s! Jeans season should be here!)

How was your final summer weekend?