You Have 4 Saturdays Until FOOTBALL - What Are You Doing With Them?
Mates,
Counting today, there are 4 open Saturdays until actual, real, count-'em-because-they-count college football games will be played. Summer is here (hot today in the mitten state) and there are only so many days left to do your weekend projects, knock out a trip or vacation of some sort, get out on your boat, etc.
So the question is quite simple: What are you doing these last days, particularly these last weekends of summer as football looms?
May all those plans come to fruition, and may you enjoy every bit of them.
XM
August 6th, 2022 at 10:09 AM ^
today: work on an attic space adjacent to another room in our house that I'm turning into a hidden room (you know the one with a bookshelf that opens). kids want to go to the zoo and see the lynx kittens, so we'll do that this afternoon.
next weekend: hope to continue working on that room
next next weekend: long weekend camping trip
fourth weekend: too far out
August 6th, 2022 at 10:10 AM ^
Next Saturday the larger family group is going up to Leelanau for the week. First time up in the Traverse City area, so that should be fun.
Personally I hope to get out on the water a time a week (outside of that vacation) and do some bass fishing.
And I have to get into my classroom and get that ready for the school year. And finish installing a patio. I took out the deck this past week and now just need stone or sand to smooth it over then some paver stones.
4 weeks!!! Go Blue, baby!!!
August 6th, 2022 at 10:22 AM ^
avatar totally checking out.
good luck. i hear there is a heck of a smallie fishery in and around the TC area.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
i helped my in-laws put in paver stones for a 6x8 area. the stones were 2x2, so not terribly light. we are talking only 12 stones. i was sore for two days after. so out of shape for that type of thing - well probably most things actually.
August 6th, 2022 at 10:15 AM ^
This weekend I'm at my MIL's restocking her freezer for the next three months with home-cooked, ready-to-microwave meals, plus tonight she's having some friends over for dinner and I get to play chef (chicken parm, fresh bread, fresh vegetables, chocolate mousse).
Next weekend: I return home! Our daughter returns to her home.
Following weekend: our son will be here!
The next weekend after: our son returns home.
All weekends: garden, keep the house clean, take care of my beloved, plan out a September camping excursion that we may or may not be able to take, keep my local library in business, stare at the internet waiting for football season. Just like every other day. Such is retired life.
Nice !!!
August 6th, 2022 at 10:18 AM ^
Today we will head to the Beach. Likely Muskegon St Park. Then to Hobo's or Bear Lake Tavern.
Next week: ??? Hopefully - Some beach, somewhere
There a beautiful sunset burnin' up the atmosphere....
A 20: Ann Arbor where my wife will be Urban Sketching while I will be Urban Sitting.
A27: God help me if I have to work. Our company is moving and we have no idea how long it will take. I have to be available cuz this can't go past Sept 1.
August 6th, 2022 at 10:35 AM ^
A 20: Ann Arbor where my wife will be Urban Sketching while I will be Urban Sitting.
I'm imagining this means that you'll be sitting like Urban while your wife sketches it?
August 6th, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
0% chance that will happen in public.
There is a 25% chance I wake up in a similar position,
75% chance I wake up to a Vitamix blending kale and blueberries.
Now that’s the real Urban Meyer…
Now that’s the real Urban Meyer…
August 6th, 2022 at 10:34 AM ^
Technically, there are three weeks if you call Nebraska vs. Northwestern football.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:33 PM ^
I'm seriously considering flying over for that.
August 6th, 2022 at 10:43 AM ^
I'm going to try and be at our place up north on the lake as much as possible. Heading up there tomorrow in fact. We just got some steaks to grill to take with us from Knight's.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:06 AM ^
mgocamping trip @ true blue grits place!
Lol, Dennis still down votes me (i assume because of that thread)
August 6th, 2022 at 10:44 AM ^
Trying to live my best Saturday life while I can...
July 30 - Arcadia Bluffs. South Course/dinner. Excellent.
August 6 - Coast Guard Festival finale - Grand Parade, carnival, beet tents, fireworks extravaganza - Coast Guard City USA my hometown Grand Haven, MI
August 13 - Mackinac Island. Lots of biking.
August 20 - Whitecaps game Comstock Park, Michigan (Bung Hammers beer night) I won 4 front-row premium box seats right behind home plate.
August 27 - Burning Foot festival Muskegon, Michigan.
September 3 - Toe meets leather high noon in Ann Arbor.
August 6th, 2022 at 10:46 AM ^
My son’s last soccer game is today and my bowling league starts on 8/20. Got a block party to hit later.
August 6th, 2022 at 10:54 AM ^
I'll be working a lot during the weekends. My office had 3 retirements in June and July. It looks bleak for weekends this football season as well. I only have 1 year 14 days before I can retire. I was thinking about working 6 more years but the one year option is looking better all the time.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:42 PM ^
I retired two years earlier than I had planned, and I have no regrets. Mostly poor and nearly always happy, as we've been for 38 years!
I like my job but to have more of a normal life it would be better to retire early at age 60. Though no SS until 62 (federal employees can do a SS bridge but I prefer not to). But with a small federal pension and working part time, I could manage it. I don't plan to tap my 401K (TSP) until I turn 72, and will probably retire fully (no part time jobs) by then (hopefully I can live that long and several years there after).
Don't know you or your situation at all, obviously. But. Perhaps you can change careers, jobs, etc. and find something more pleasing to do? For some (raises hand awkwardly), retiring is not fun, at all.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:04 AM ^
Next Saturday I'm going to watch my other favorite college team Ohio U have a open practice for season ticket holders.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:04 AM ^
Deer season prep
August 6th, 2022 at 11:07 AM ^
brush hogged trails on thursday. checked tree stands and blinds. need to get the bow out and shoot a bit, get the kids shooting rifles.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:08 AM ^
Today going out to BFE to see my (*fingers crossed*) new house and prefilling the punch list. Next Saturday - checking off the punch list. Next Saturday, sleeping on the floor, with a deathgrip on MY house keys. Last of the 4, schlepping furniture and a BFG9000 TV so I can sleep in a bed, and be ready for some football. (Or hurriedly trying to secure an apartment and cursing mortgage underwiters everywhere.)
August 6th, 2022 at 11:09 AM ^
Many home projects (somehow, the list never seems to get shorter) and squeezing in some late summer trips up north, NYC
August 6th, 2022 at 11:10 AM ^
Whistler this weekend.
San Diego housing hunting next weekend.
Dublin following weekend.
Belfast following weekend.
Land in LA night before our first game.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:31 AM ^
Good luck on the housing front in San Diego. We are moving next weekend, home in the next development here in La Costa Valley. Hopefully the market will cool off in the coming year, as we are seeking a new house. Fun but a pain in the ass.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:52 AM ^
Just one bedroom apartment for me, several places available downtown so I think I’m good. Good luck with your move as well.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
UNC, that's it, that's all you got planned? no trip to the moon or mars?
as to san diego, i'll put in a plug for coronado. i have no desire to ever go back to socal, but if we did, it'd be back to coronado.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:54 AM ^
Moon in September, Mars in October.
Coronado is great, good muni course there as well. Not a great place to live while single though. Also I’ll be flying often so little Italy or gaslamp is probably my play.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:46 PM ^
Daughter and her husband loved OB while stationed there for two years. Best of luck on the housing search!
August 6th, 2022 at 11:19 AM ^
Camping/Partying all week at Michigan International Speedway.
3 weeks of detox.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:19 AM ^
Seeing a lot of baseball. Today will be in Cleveland with the gf seeing the Guardians take on the Astros in a make up game for a rain out a while back (we tried to see a 3 game set against the Tigers, Saturday night ended up postponed). Next week I have tickets I won at a company outing to see the Toledo Mud Hens. Then the last weekend before football starts the gf and I are making a trip to Texas. We'll stop in San Antonio for some tourist stuff. Then we'll head to Houston to see NASA and Minuite Maid Park for the first time. Then headed to Arlington to see the Rangers take on the Tigers (gf is a Tigers fan).
August 6th, 2022 at 11:22 AM ^
Probably passing kidney stones and catching up on work.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:37 PM ^
Olive oil, lemon juice, and water. Chug it constantly.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:27 AM ^
Wrapping up 2 week vacation with smoking a 20 lb pork shoulder today! Then hoping to get two more trips to the beach before the end of the month.
August 6th, 2022 at 11:28 AM ^
Golf w/Dad & Friends, Golf scramble with Dad, Golf, moving my son into WMU. I'm sure there are chores, family time and date nights in there as well, but they're not on the calendar.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:00 PM ^
Try to take over the world and watch Hallmark movies
August 6th, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
Actually it’s only 3 Saturdays including today from CFB, there’s a bunch of Week 0 games on Aug 27. The sicko in me is excited for northwestern-Nebraska in Dublin
August 6th, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
Charlevoix, Boston, Chicago, Detroit.
seth, you have my contact info. if you get up to the northern lower you are invited to stop by the farm, with or without family, see the animals, and bring a cooler to take a farm 'care package' when you leave.
August 6th, 2022 at 12:27 PM ^
Unfortunately our home opener and Labor Day weekend will forever be bitter sweet since my motorcycle accident last year on 9/4/21 that resulted in my wife’s death and injuries from which I continue to recover. So while I look forward to Michigan football, it will also mark the first full year without my wife and my kids not having their mom.
As for the next four weekends, that will depend on how quickly my broken right tibia heals since the ring fixator was installed on 7/1 after two prior failed surgeries. In past years before last September, my wife and I would use these weekends to ride and enjoy the end of summer on our bike as well as taking our daughter back to college in Florida. This will be her last year there, so I hope to make the trip again, but we will see if the leg can manage.
Sorry to be a drag… I’ll still watch the game with my kids, who will all be coming home to memorialize their mom’s passing. I watched every game last season, even the ones I missed while in the hospital thanks to DVR. I sincerely believe my wife had a hand in our win against osu, I’m sure she has some pull upstairs now. Be sure to thank her. Her name is Candace. She was a gem!!!
Go Blue!!
August 6th, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
My deepest condolences on your loss. May she rest in peace.
Thanks!
August 6th, 2022 at 12:56 PM ^
Candace sounds like she was an absolute peach. I am so very sorry for your loss.
Thanks! She was the best person I’ve ever known.
gee, that is heavy but also very meaningful. glad your children will be around. blessings to you jomafalo, that is a tough cross to bear.
and yeah, first one to heaven needs to thank Candace. and if it happens any time soon, ask for more of the same!
Thanks XM! Sorry to be a downer on your light hearted post.