The summer season is waning, which means both that the infernal weather will soon abate and that all the fun outdoor things will soon wrap up. As such, my weekend plans include:

• Floating in the pool.
• Watching a baseball game.
• Buying lots of summer produce at the farmers market.
• Taking a trip to the library.
• Reading and knitting outdoors.
• Attending an international food festival.
• Spending time at the garden.
• Doing laundry. (Some of the weekend has to be spent inside!)
• Cleaning the bathroom.
• Refilling the tea canisters.

What are you hoping to get to this weekend?

Here are three shots from my weekend:

That last one is not quite as in focus as I’d have liked, but it does clearly point out that autumn is on its way, no matter how slowly!

Rudi is off playing bicycles this weekend, leaving Corey and me home alone. Corey has informed me that while he is happy to curl up next to me at night and holler at me whenever I walk into the kitchen, probably that’s the extent of his weekend plans. I’m going to try not to make it the extent of mine.

Laundry mountain is no longer in danger of smothering me in my sleep, but probably could use further attention, particularly as I’m traveling later in the week and might like to take clean clothes. Likewise, the living room is in danger of being declared a natural disaster site and I should probably stop trying to address that by smothering it from above.

I had plans to watch Wonder Woman outdoors tonight, but the threat of thunderstorms caused them to call it early — a disappointment, since it ended up with clear skies, but understandable. Instead, I took myself to the library to collect my holds, to the garden to water, to the pool to swim, and then back home to watch the season finale of Agents of SHIELD.

I might try to get over to Virginia tomorrow night to watch Norma Rae outdoors if the weather holds and I can figure out the travel logistics with Metro and bikeshare. Or there’s also a free modern Carmen adaptation at the Kennedy Center tomorrow evening, should I want someplace less complicated to visit.

I have some job search stuff to take care of over the weekend, as always these days.

I’d like to spend some time reading and some time knitting. I need to remember to water my houseplants. And I’ll need milk at the farmers market. Rudi suggested that if there was a deal to be had on bulk tomatoes that he’d be willing to tackle turning them into sauce when he gets back to town.

And as sleep should also be something I tackle this weekend, I’ll bid you a good night!

By my weekend’s to-do list, I’ve had great success. We swam, watched Endeavour before we missed out on it, saw some of the Apollo 11 festivities, and enjoyed Hamlet. I bought eggs and milk and a bag of heirloom tomatoes at the farmers market (among other things) and cat food and Oreos at the store. We watered the garden and picked everything ripe. (I’ll have to weed later in the week when the cool weather returns, since apparently weeds, like tomatoes, really enjoy heat waves.)

I ripped out the last four rows of the shawl to get back to the right number of stitches, listening to Peter Mayle’s The Vintage Caper while doing so. I am 16 rows away from finishing the first third of the shawl. I wonder how many more times I’ll have to knit them!

And I even found the title to my car, among other things.

But now the Burrow looks like it suffered through an earthquake with everything strewn about. Putting the apartment to rights will be high on this week’s to-do list when I’m not out doing other, more interesting things, like going to a baseball game and playing volleyball and enjoying a beautiful forecast. Which, honestly, possibly means the apartment is going to look a lot like this for the rest of the week. But I will at least tidy up some of the mess because two adults (and an adult cat) do live here after all.

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Yeah, I laughed, too.

Honestly, my weekend plan should just be not to move any more than absolutely necessary. However, that doesn’t really seem like an enjoyable use of my weekend, so instead, I’m going to:

• Water the garden, because Mother Nature has not been helping me out.
• Buy milk and eggs at the farmers market.
• Swim, because that’s the only thing that makes sense in this crazy heat.
• Catch some of the Apollo 11 festivities down on the Mall.
• Watch The Bookshop, which I have out from the library, and the last episode from Endeavour, before it goes behind PBS’ paywall.
• Take in the final performance of Hamlet, this year’s Shakespeare Theatre’s Free for All.
• Organize the apartment.
• Purchase cat food.
• Figure out where the extra stitch came from in the latest row of my shawl.
• Start reading There There or, conversely, finish one of the many books I’m already partway through.

How about you? what are you going to do this weekend?

The weekend was a nice one. It included a Tour de France watching party at a bar in Virginia with Rudi’s bike club on Friday; trips to the garden, library, grocery store, bagel shop; and farmers market; time in the pool; and a delicious Bastille Day supper of vegetarian crepes, chevre and crackers, and creamsicle ice cream.

There was reading and knitting and cuddling with the cat. There was a bike ride and holding hands and lounging on a bench at the park.

All in all, a pleasant way to pass a couple days in the middle of July, wouldn’t you say?