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The Long Weekend, Day 3

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Not that I would ever do this to you, but one of the frustrating things about being brought along on other people’s vacations through regular photo updates is that you, when at home, are stuck in slow moving routine time while they, on holiday, are experiencing super-fast pleasure time.

Water Sports!

That means the Holiday People will think the whole thing is a giddy, fascinating lark throughout, rushing by them at a breakneck pace. To you, however, their vacation seems to go on forever.

Aren’t they done yet?

If I had taken a long weekend and ducked out on Thursday, I’d be in my third day of recreation and relaxation today while you would be just getting used to the idea of not having to report for your usual duties because it is Saturday. How cruel! That’s why I’m probably not taking a loooooong weekend, and certainly not telling you about it at length and in excruciating detail. It would be rude. That’s also why I wouldn’t send you pictures of the fun I was having. Why waste even a moment of your precious weekend wishing you could be where I am, doing the outrageous and crazy fun things I’m doing?

Time for a Sand Castle!

If I did subject you to my vacation, you would only have Sunday to look forward to. Then, at least, you could take some satisfaction in the knowledge that I would spend a large part of the day packing, and the rest of it traveling, possibly stuck in an airport or jammed up in traffic, just so I could be back where I’m supposed to be on Monday.

Meanwhile, you’re already there.

Time for relaxation. Ahhhhh!

What makes for a perfect Sunday afternoon?

66 thoughts on “The Long Weekend, Day 3”

  2. Rise and Shine Baboons!

    In the summer a crossword puzzle in the shade on the deck.
    In football season a crossword puzzle on the family room couch with a fire in the fireplace, the Vikings game on (sound off), drifting off into a nap.
    In winter a crossword puzzle then drifting off into a nap.

    You get the idea.

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  4. For me: staying at home, doing nothing but cooking soup.
    Fore my wife: going somewhere, doing something seeing things.

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  6. i am so glad you are not rubbing it in our faces dale. thank you. the falls surfing and moon beach parties are very baboonish ways to spend the weekend. you did a great job of getting in position for those shots. the driveway is underway. off to get a jack hammer. i thought i could do without it but no…. off to work i go

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  7. Depending on the season and the weather, the perfect Sunday afternoon can be many things. On a warm, sunny day a leisurely walk in Lebanon Hills or along the river, or perhaps a paddle in my kayak on Lake Phalen. If it’s rainy or drab outside, curled up with a good book in my favorite chair while a pot of soup is simmering away on the stove. On a crisp fall day, foraging for wild mushrooms in the woods. On a cold winter afternoon, snuggled up with a good book and a cup of hot chocolate.

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  8. Sorting medicine for the week.
    Coffee at the Barnes & Noble toy store.
    Cleaning out a week of email files.
    Often, but not this week, straightening up after a fun Saturday visit from grand kids.
    A bit of ironing.
    Bike ride.
    Now its westward ho the Scion wagon.

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  9. Now that we’re out of school (!) Sundays are usually very pleasant. Sunday afternoon can be devoted to the Sunday paper (indoors or out depending on the season as mentioned above) if it got interrupted from Sunday morning. But often the places we might actualy get up and GO to are optional – an outdoor concert at Lake Harriet; a movie at the Riverview Theater. It seems the potlucks and parties are often scheduled on Saturdays… people still tend to leave Sundays open when they can. For a long time I told people I wouldn’t schedule anything solid on a Sunday. The exception was Husband’s family’s gatherings.

    This Sunday we get to read the paper and do the puzzles on our newly completed screen porch out back. It feels like it’s been there forever – why did we wait so long to do this?

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  10. The best Sunday afternoon is the Sunday afternoon before a Monday holiday. I have always disliked Sunday afternoons since they are precursors to Monday. A good mystery book followed by a nap is my favorite way of spending Sunday afternoon.

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  11. Morning–
    Sleeping late, then sitting in bed with the laptop and catching up on things while listening to Weekend Edition. If all goes right, I’ll get sleepy and get a nap in before I ever get out of bed.

    Rainy afternoons are best because then I don’t feel guilty for being lazy. Lazy.
    Lazy Sunday afternoons are good.

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  15. What is this perfect Sunday afternoon you speak of? I have memory that such a thing exists, but with an 8-year-old in the house, Sunday afternoons currently are just more time that She Who Must Be Entertained needs to get to a friend’s house to play, is waiting for a friend to come here and play, is waiting to be able to use my computer to play games, is asking for attention because…what was the question?…Oh yeah. A perfect Sunday afternoon starts with being able to sleep in Sunday morning and then having a slow morning with the paper and coffee (and maybe a giant cinnamon roll). Then long about noon I’ll think about putting on real clothes. What happens in the afternoon doesn’t matter so much so long as whatever it is isn’t something I “have” to do like chores or shopping or Driving Miss Daisy. Sidewalk chalk is good. Reading a book is good. Talking the dog for a walk with Miss Daisy by the creek is good. Maybe a bike ride. Listening to Miss Daisy laugh and giggle with her friends while they play in the yard or splash in our small swimming pool is good. Just not cleaning the bath tub, painting, fixing something…

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    1. I have a childless Sunday today. Contemplating the possibilities, but I am pretty sure a bag of knitting, a good book (currently reading Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James-loving it), and some sort of water nearby contribute to a perfect summer Sunday.

      The house is tooooooo quiet.

      Edith, if you are marking your scorecard, the garage is about a quarter of the way done and since the main goal is the basement, I naturally managed to purge the bathroom linen closet (which is not in any way, shape, or form in the basement).

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      1. Great progress, MIG! Good for you. And even if you got sidetracked by the bathroom linen closet, it’s all part of the decluttering/purging thing, so it’s all good.

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  17. Good evening. My weekend started early with a trip to the Twin Cities to see a film last night. We returned home today so today seems like Sunday. That would be one way to spend a Sunday, returning home after staying over night in the Twin Cities at my daughter’s house following a Saturday night out in the cities to see a show or hear some music. We might do some shopping or stop for a walk in a park before returning home. We would also enjoy a breakfast with my daughter and her husband before leaving for home. If we take time to shop or visit a park we might have a meal in a favorite Twin Cities restaurant before returning home.

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  18. Beasts of the Southern Wild shown at a special screening at the Walker. A very good film that will play at the Lagoon in July. The first feature film by my this film maker and it has won some top awards. It features a young girl who lives through a flood and hardships of many kinds in the back waters near New Orleans.

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  19. i am a jack hammer asphalt fixing expert now. saturday job took the day because i had to go pick up a jack hammer in new prauge to get started so it didnt happen til noon. what a nice day. today i will look at taking down the tree thats on the list. jack hammers and chain saws. guy weekend. the sangria ended up all over one sons trunk on the way to the departing sons going away party at grandmas house. best smelling trunk around. its hot and sticky at 7am should be a pip by noon. enjoy a beautiful june sunday. and vote for ice cream. they are really serious about the 24 hours, wont let you in after 22.

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  20. sunday morning on cbs is the way sunday starts. a cup of tea and some taters and onions on the stove. maybe they take the potato pancake maybe it goes off and combines with mushrooms, peppers, eggs and cheese but always taters and onions. then onto the sunday agenda, if its summer usually that means a ball game for the mucnchkins, not this weekend. they canceled and rescheduled for july 21 so i will be missing the rescheduled game to spend time with my trailmates if all goes as planned. today i will mow the lawn cut the trees and plant some stuff that has been waiting patiently for me

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    1. Sounds like it is catch up on chores day, tim. Same here, but I will do it slowly because it is Sunday. Maybe not too slow because I’m not that fast normally and if I go too slow I might completely stop moving.

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      1. Ha! I just tried to put a smiley face here, and WP said – Nuh-ah “Duplicate comment – looks like you’ve already said that.”

        🙂

        So there.

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  21. Great Sunday – just participated in a Flash Mob at the beginning of the Pride Parade and now I’m off to camp nirvana. Just need to stay awake for 3 1/2 hours of driving (not my forte)
    Have a great baboony week, awl jawl!

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      2. Thanks for posting, B-A! I saw her toward the end when they were pulling in more people from the crowd.

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        1. Good catch BiR! ‘Tis I, grabbing #2 son for the ending dance. (blue shorts and orange shirt, of course). C’est moi on the right at 5:30.
          (as though anyone is reading this a week later!)

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  22. A busy by satisfying Sunday. Slept in and didn’t go to church (badness all over us) but had two pots of French press coffee and weeded flower beds and folded and ironed laundry, and dusted, and watered strawberry beds and trimmed lilacs that shaded strawberries and watered. Husband went to work and finished a psychological evaluation and then went to hand bell practice and loaded our van with the bells and their accoutrements for Duluth, and them came home and made Julia Child’s Syrian Lamb platter with couscous and lots of garlic and lamb and roasted red peppers and sun dried tomatoes and parsley and lemon and capers, and now we will eat and go to bed. I am so looking forward to our trip to Duluth. We and our fellow ringers plan to get there from the north.

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  23. Summer Sunday afternoon haiku

    When did this happen?
    In March – just a few sticks. Now –
    Raspberry jungle.

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