Weekend Plans Post: Memorial Day Weekend

When I was a kid, Memorial Day was a somewhat big thing for our household. Dad would fire up the grill for the first time of the season and we’d make shish kebabs. I remember my parents telling me that shish kebabs were *LAMB* and, for some reason, that was very important. If we put beef or chicken on the skewers, they would no longer be shish.

Googling now, I realize that my parents gave me the best information available to them at the time.

That said, I remember the kebabs being absolutely wonderful. I hated the onions but really enjoyed the meat and the pineapple. I would have been happy with a shish kebab with nothing but pineapple. “It has to have lamb on it too!”, they’d’ve probably told me.

We’d have the grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins over and a good time was had by all and right around then was the last day of school and then we’d have an eternal summer.

I mean, when you’re 8, one month is 1 percent of your life pretty much. Three months off? THAT’S 3 PERCENT OF YOUR LIFE BEING FREE.

And the tailgate before the kickoff of that freedom was a bunch of kebabs in the back yard.

We’re not making kebabs this weekend. But we *DO* have a 3 day weekend ahead of us and it’s going to be nice to have a relaxing weekend. Friends coming over for a breakfast and gossip on Saturday, maybe we’ll watch the D&D movie that is finally streaming, we’ll run some errands, we’ll go shopping, and we’ll do a nice couple of loads of laundry.

So… what’s on your docket?

(Featured image is “Perch”. Photo taken by Maribou.)