Long weekend

[cosmolinguist]

Very sad to realize that I have to start caring about bedtime again.

I've had a pretty great bank holiday weekend though.

• Tried to skive off work a bit early to go for a drink with D in the sunshine. It ended up not being that sunny by then, but we had a nice time. And I got us ice-cream cones from an ice-cream van as we walked home!
• We did indeed go out for Best Friday, which was lovely if slightly overdoing it for D
• I made it to transgym, sent good wishes back and forth between D and the gymgoers, and got my gloves back that I accidentally left in a friend's car when they gave me a lift home...and then proceeded not to see said friend for the last couple of months. I've been thinking about those gloves every so often: I got them in Stornoway so they're nice and warm, fair-isle type colorwork, and most important for me fingerless. I don't need them now but it's very nice to have them back!
• our friends Alex and Ian came over that evening, yay. It was so so lovely to see them. We got pizza.
• We were invited for afternoon tea at angelofthenorth's yesterday. Little sandwiches and sweets and many pots of tea (and I had coffee), beautifully showed off her new table and chairs!
• We bought some more plants, and when we got home I did some dad chores: added air to the car tires that needed it, cut back a tree that's overhanging from the neighbor's yard, started in on the ivy that has already claimed a couple of fence panels, and then sat outside with a book and a cold beer, in shorts and sandals (it's only about 60F, but thanks to testosterone I've become the guy who needs to wear a sleeveless top and sandals and shorts when it's 60F...)

Storm Dave aside, we had good weather this weekend, even great today -- and this is the opposite of what bank holiday Mondays are usually like. And it's not even dark at 8pm now; I'm so relieved.

Comments

[otter]

Shorts at 60F in true Minnesota fashion :)

[cosmolinguist]

I knoooow. So weird to turn into a stereotype!

[angelofthenorth]

There are now cushions on the chairs....

[cosmolinguist]

Well done. :)

[cmcmck]

We saw nothing of storm Dave here apart from a slight breeze.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, the worst of it seems to have been north of us, so definitely not at yours!

[barakta]

I envy people who are warm at 15C. We spent the weekend with a friend who has no central heating and Storm Dave was properly howling through their annoyingly crap "ye olde" house. Testosterone Bastards the lot of you! :D

Sounds like a great bank holiday weekend.