What's *your* weekend project?

[Earth_First]

What's your weekend to-do list look like?

Or maybe you're taking a time-out this weekend...

I took on a project to rebuild our aging side entryway last weekend and hope to finish it up sometime this afternoon...

At any rate, coffee is on! Time to motivate!

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Yardwork. I've been gone for the last two weekends,

there's a lot to do, and it's supposed to be nice weather.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Moving two hibiscus back inside to avoid 46° that feels like 39° early tomorrow morning.

Weather in NY makes life so interesting!
The guys will continue digging the new Kio Pond tomorrow and Monday.

The new Blue Stone Patio needs mulch between the joints. It looks 100% better than before we created a lovely space over the past month.


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[Earth_First]

3. Sounds like a wonderful space you've created!

I'm inlaying an irregular pattern flagstone floor on the side entryway.

Whereabouts in New York?

It's 43 here in Rochester...

[In_The_Wind]

5. The flagstone will be fun! It's like a jigsaw puzzle. It will be great by this Fall.

In New Paltz, currently 44.

We don't own the land (not grouting the stones in place) so we are using calcium chloride to kill the grass before we add black mulch. I'm working toward low maintenance, no weed whacking when I'm done. Our old knees and backs will thank us in the future.

[magical thyme]

4. another 2-3 days of "showers" here,

which translates into deluges so fierce they flattened my tulips. But I'm grateful for the rain; we needed it.

During our 6 weeks of brilliantly sunny drought, I was able to restore 2 large gardens (36x36 and 10x20) that had been badly overrun with crabgrass and other stuff during the last couple years of school/work. I could have just rototilled except then I would have lost various and sundry perennials and bulbs, so instead I just shoveled and then weeded daily, stopping short of killing my back.

The rains came over the last week, just in time for me to plant. I replaced french tarragon, thyme, and strawberries that were lost to the wilderness, plus got my peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, beets, cabbage, carola potatoes, and peruvian purple potatoes planted. Also a couple more rows of sugar snap and snow peas planted. The gardens are back to looking like gardens as opposed to jungle.

Now we have 2+ more days of "showers" and I plan to concentrate on some deep housecleaning, which has been in "lick and promise" mode for 6 weeks. Also will get going on cleaning out the garage.

Also some garden cleanup, plus I may add lemon thyme, spearmint and one or two other herbs in the newly minted areas.

During my rest periods, aside from DUing, I have some cheap CDs -- 5 episodes of the Andy Griffith show and a couple unheard of movies plus one Alfred Hitchcock -- that I can indulge in.

[sarge43]

6. If it ever stops raining, yard work.

The place is starting to look like the Amazon Basin.

[lastlib]

7. Sounds like rain here........

....so I'm inside, trying to rebuild a database that got corrupted on computer. it was a four-day project building it, populating it before, but hoping I've learned enough since then to make it a lot easier and smoother.

[fizzgig]

8. i have to clean up my apartment today

my girlfriend is staying with us the next couple nights so i need to make the place presentable

[femmocrat]

9. Catching up on my soap on Hulu.

For those who don't know, All My Children has been resurrected and is available on Hulu!

I have a bunch of episodes to watch. It's an AMC marathon at chez femmocrat.

[Flashmann]

10. Finish the mowing my ½ acre that I began yesterday

Before the rains start up ,tops the list...Forecast yesterday,for today,was a 30% chance of scattered showers,mainly in the afternoon.This morning it had jumped to 50%.By the time I finished my coffee it was 90%...Just after taking out the mower and filling the gas tank,it started pouring and now looks to rain til tuesday...

Secondly,go to my last guitar lesson,before taking a month off.From lessons,not playing...

Third,smoke some stuff,drink some stuff and BBQ some stuff...

[Tobin S.]

11. Accounting homework, clean kitchen, beer, sleep, beer, sleep...in that order

I just got the accounting homework done and the kitchen cleaned and cracked open my first beer. I got up at 5:30 this morning and worked on the homework until 1 just for that one class. I probably had another 4 hours invested in that class from earlier in the week. What a pain in the ass.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[nolabear]

12. Writing and researching and defending myself against Mr. Bear's cocktail party.

By that I mean refusing to clean. He want to throw a last minute cocktail party, HE can clean.

[Tobin S.]

13. Damn straight

Except my wife would just invite them over anyway. I can't win here. I have to protect our reputation.

[nolabear]

20. Well, I have to admit its a lovable quality.

I'd far rather be married to generous than persnickety.

[Raffi Ella]

14. I am working in the yard today.

I went over to Home Depot this morning and got some flowers, tomatoes, a couple of new herbs, some good dirt and lotsa mulch. I put the old mulch in the back beds, took a while to move all of it, put new mulch down on the steps and around the deck and have so far planted the tomatoes but it's gotten hot so I'm taking a break at the moment.

I also went to the farmers market this morning. I got a big beautiful watermelon, first of the season for me.

How's your project coming along? Finished yet?

[DFW]

15. Oh, just the usual unusual

Got in late last night from Brussels.

Today went into town to pick up some fresh water mussels for the fish pond, and some train tickets for late next week. Then raced back home to see my daughter who had some conference in Düsseldorf until this morning, went over to the local Kieser Training studio, met a colleague from Warsaw, had dinner with my wife and daughter, and tomorrow I have to fly down to the Balkans for three days of meetings near the Black Sea.

In other words, same old same old.

[NV Whino]

16. Repotting a couple of Japanese maples

Done. And now I'm recovering before I tackle changing the pond water and weeding the veggie beds.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. the garden. always the garden, yard, woods or pond.

[noamnety]

18. I just drove over to one of my students' houses

picked her up, and drove her back to my place. I'm forcing her to do her math homework. She's supposed to be forcing me to get all my grades up to date, and I did update two classes, but now clearly I'm goofing off on DU. She needs to supervise me better.

I know exactly nothing about math, so occasionally we're interrupting my husband while he does yard work to come help her out.

[Logical]

19. Tear down the old kids swingset! They are 22, 19 and 17 now. Makes me sad! n-t

[femmocrat]

23. Awww..... I know the feeling.

Of course, you could leave it there for grandchildren! LOL We are going make a play area in the yard-- probably next year.

Last year I finally realized that the kids weren't coming back home to live anymore. (One was like a boomerang!) It took all summer but I got rid of all the teenaged posters, the "boy" bedroom set, all the out grown clothing, etc. I now have a very nice guest bedroom and gained a closet. He lives out of state now, but still comes home a couple of times a year.

[Logical]

25. Yes, we discussed the grand kids using it. Probably buy a new one in 5 years! :-)

[mythology]

21. That depends on how motivated I am tomorrow and Monday

But I have a list of about 50 things I need to get done.

Finish labeling my DVD cases, finishing my book list so I can stop buying multiple copies of the same books, clean, back up my laptop, organizing my external hard drives, ice my knee, see if I can get the wireless working on three of my computers (the joys of being a do it yourself geek), see if I can use my tablet as a monitor for my Raspberry Pi, do some cooking ahead for the week, I have a workout tomorrow (or at least as much of one as I can do on one functioning leg), maybe start learning coding or Portuguese. I also need to rerip my music collection to FLAC format, but I don't know if I really have the patience for that.

One of the good things about my knee needing surgery is that it is giving me time to work on my projects. I normally train 5 times on the weekend, but right now I can only do 2 since the knee won't hold up to the other 3.

[Moondog]

22. More unpacking.

Moved a few months back, and it is taking forever to get settled in. Hoping to unpack the bulk of my photo gear this weekend. But didn't get to that today, so here's hoping.

Beyond that, I plan on smoking a few slabs of ribs on Monday.

[GoneOffShore]

24. Making brownies for a party, then Momofuku bo'sasm pork butt on Monday

Plus a torta verte.

And finishing off some accounting stuff.

[GentryDixon]

26. Planted petunias in pots and

12 lavender springs around the yard.

We are finally getting out of winter. so I have been late in my plantings. I am not even going to plant tomato plants this year. It is cheaper to go to Trader Joe's and get theirs.