My List for the Last Day of 1st Half of Summer

My mid summer do list from a few weeks back is mostly undone, but today I can get some major household progress. Oh, for those that thought number 10, cocktails and coffee on the deck were the only true essentials-nailed it! It's been mostly coffee and I am counting my deck off my hotel room in San Diego. As for number 9, there will be some bad pictures taken from my phone from the San Diego harbour, but pictures none the less. I even started reading on the plane a novel called, The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. I hope to get fully immersed in it this weekend-after housecleaning that is.

It is our towns annual river town days, or as my old guy friends from high school refer to it, Livergone Days. DH likes them all well enough, but neither of us were up to meeting a group last night by the river to drink beer and listen to a band this crew love that covers 80's music from Journey to REO Speed Wagon. Perhaps tonight I'll go out and about. DD2 has to work at 4:00 until she is let off, depending on how busy they are. She is expecting to be packed with all the downtown traffic as they were last week with the twice monthly car show, but perhaps she will be able to meet up with friends for fireworks and a walk through the carnival if they release her by 10:00. She has to work tomorrow 12-5 as well, during the parade that will go right past the restaurant. We could hear the live band from the tent set up at the bar across the pond from our house pretty late. I don't mind the noise, though we have had wandering drunks in our neighborhood late at night, and once, I had to wake up someone crashed on our lawn. It was a sort of neighbor that  walked home, and must have forgotten where he lived, or just decided our tree made a nice tent for the night. 

Today then will be

• laundry
• refrigerator, pantry, and freezer clean out
• meal planning
• entry hall way, shelve and cupboards
• bathrooms

If I manage anything else, that will be a banner day. DH's uncle and his cousin's daughter are at the lake this weekend from Florida, so he may head up there after work and stay until tomorrow night. This uncle recently lost his wife after a long illness. I liked her and  this uncle, but will not go along since DD2 can't come. They are heading out tomorrow early to visit his wife's family, so it would be a hurry time to get up there. We'll probably go visit at my mother-in-laws house in town the night before they leave instead. I'm getting better at not doing things on other peoples schedule-especially trying to not let DH's family decide how and when we'll spend limited free time. If that makes me difficult and odd to them, so be it.

To not confuse these pictures for river town, these are from San Diego below. No palm trees in Minnesota, at least not outdoors.