{"id":9217,"date":"2019-06-22T01:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T06:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2019-06-22T03:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T08:39:28","slug":"first-weekend-of-summer-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"first weekend of summer planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/48107170492\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Have a Great Summer!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48107170492_66cf7bc775.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"186\" alt=\"Have a Great Summer!\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Happy Summer, everyone! I hope your solstice was as beautiful as ours was. We couldn&#8217;t have asked for a nicer June day!<\/p>\n<p>Now that an official summer weekend has arrived, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping to do with it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get some late night culture. The Smithsonians are all open until midnight on Saturday as a special once-a-year treat. Also, the By the People Festival wraps up this Sunday, and I didn&#8217;t get to any of the events last weekend&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Watch Shakespeare in the park (or, at least, the front yard of a church). I only wish it weren&#8217;t The Taming of the Shrew, but beggars can&#8217;t be choosers and this is the only outdoor Shakespeare in the District anymore.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Weed. So much rain=so many uninvited plants in my garden. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Apply for some jobs.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Make iced tea. I&#8217;ve already washed out a gallon-sized milk jug to make it in.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Bake something with cherries. Perhaps a pie.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Buy raspberries. I have yet to see any at farmers markets, but I have faith.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Catch up on <em>Endeavour<\/em>. PBS doesn&#8217;t come in over the air for us (unless it&#8217;s raining), so we have to watch online and we haven&#8217;t had a chance to see the season premiere yet. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rip back the part of the shawl where the yarn is noticeably weird so I can finish it next week.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Spend as much time outside as humanly possible, since the heat and humidity are lurking around the corner, ready to leap out as soon as the weekend is over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s on tap for your weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Summer, everyone! I hope your solstice was as beautiful as ours was. We couldn&#8217;t have asked for a nicer June day! Now that an official summer weekend has arrived, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping to do with it: Get some late night culture. 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