Weekend Plans Post: The Three Day Weekend
I had to be reminded on Monday that Veteran’s Day is a holiday that we get off and so… holy cow. It’s a 3-day weekend this weekend.
One of our friends from Denver is a medical professional and she does her practice 2 days a month down here in Colorado Springs and, when that happens, we have her over for supper on the first of the two days. It’s nice to see her and cook for her, we give her books for her little free libraries up in Denver, she gives me CDs that she’s culling from her collection, and a good time is had by all. Tonight, we fed her some of the loaded baked potato soup that we’ve added to our winter crock pot rotation and dessert was some vanilla ice cream with Magic Shell.
A good start.
Tomorrow *WAS* going to a day where I went in and built a Splunk server. But now that day is Monday. Tomorrow might be a day where I hang with my co-worker buddies and we make food for lunch *OR* we might play Baldur’s Gate 3 multiplayer for a couple of hours and BS with each other over discord.
Saturday involves a couple of Maribou’s friends coming over and I’ll cook for them while they trade horror stories about the last month or so and then I get to spend the rest of the day running errands and doing laundry so that Sunday can properly be a day devoted to *NOTHING AT ALL*.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Heterochromia”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Going to see a movie with my SO this afternoon, most likely followed by dinner. Very little on the docket otherwise, except maybe getting together with a friend for a beer Sunday afternoon.Report
I should probably go hunting… I’ve been very lax, black powder season is almost over, and our venison supplies are perilously low.Report
Do you just hunt your property or is there public land out there people can use? My buddy who lives in your direction has been saying we should try it. Laws are so stringent where I am I have never even tried hunting deer so my experience is limited to waterfowl AKA shooting from a blind at disappointing, wretched ducks.
I will actually be out in the Purcellville/Round Hill area tomorrow but I think the only thing we’re planning on hunting this time is bourbon and scotch.Report
Yeah, just hunt on the property… we have a few permanent stands and I just wander back periodically. It certainly simplifies the whole process.
I don’t know much about hunting on public lands, but I think it’s mostly a matter of getting a license, stamps, and braving the woods to find a spot. Speaking of Purcellville, if you stay east of the Blueridge the season is a lot longer; west of the mountains our rifle season is just a couple weeks around Thanksgiving — but either sex, which is nice.
If you wanted to de-cloak, dm me on Twitter and we could set you up on the property on a weekday (weekends are usually spoken for). Still need a license and stamps… but wandering the woods part is taken care of.Report
Unfortunately between the baby, my brother’s wedding, and the holidays coming up I think I am out of wiggle room for weekday adventures, but I may well take you up on that offer next season.
I have my grandfather’s winchester rifle that I believe is suited for the purpose, and that probably is dying to do something other than be taken to a shooting range once a year. That probably makes it more productive that you can shoot doe. If that, or any hunting at all, were allowed in my neighborhood there could be venison for decades, particularly since the deer will hang out in the open within 10 feet of you while they eat your garden. These are of course anti social urban deer, not wholesome country deer.Report
Hoo boy. Busy this weekend. Charity trivia tonight, football quarterfinal officiating and chorus concert tomorrow. Sunday will be devoted to getting the house ready for putting on the market.
I told my girlfriend the official move in date would be this coming week, so I’ll be saying (mostly) goodbye to my home of 30 years. It’s a little bittersweet, but let me tell you 2 months of painting and sprucing up and pitching 30 years’ worth of accumulated stuff will quickly make you not long for a piece of real estate.Report
A million years ago, Maribou went out to help one of her friends move from hither to all the way over there in another time zone entirely. Like, they would share shifts in a U-Haul and everything.
This was back when vehicles still had CD players and somewhere around the time that Kanye West released his album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”. I wanted to say “here… I bought you guys this CD… You can listen to it as you drive across different time zones… have fun” but, hey, I was lazy and didn’t get around to it.
Maribou’s friend moved out there and proceeded to have several awful years in a row.
I blame myself.
Here’s Kanye’s “Runaway”:
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