I'll be playing in a concert on the lawn here:

Fuller Lodge, in Los Alamos, NM. It should bring an interesting perspective to the day. I'm looking forward to it.

We are on Cape Cod. I took yesterday off and we came down early in the morning, went out to our favorite lobster shack for lunch and then back home for work. I planted the window boxes at the front windows, painted a chair, cooked dinner for the late arrival of our family. Today we are off for a bike ride and will go out to dinner tonight. We have the flag hung and the lights are strung around the deck! Hope you all get a chance to relax! This is our big kick off to summer! And boy to we welcome it this year!!!!

Every Memorial Day, our friends from college and their two kids come and stay with us. They live in in a more urban area, and our house is in a very rural area, on quite a bit of land, and we're on a river, so their kids love it. We usually do lots of outdoor stuff- fishing, hiking, baseball, campfire s'mores, etc.

It has been raining for over a week, and it's supposed to keep pouring all weekend! It's such a bummer. We will either be stuck in the house, or very wet and muddy. Ugh!!

Hope you all enjoy the weekend, and hope your weather is nice and summery!

As I write this we just left (later than planned...as always) to drive to Ohio to see DD.. She has no plans for the weekend and was happy when we mentioned we might come. She moved into a nicer apartment downtown so am anxious to see it. Will just hang out and do a little shopping maybe, go out to eat. Looks like the weather will be nice. Enjoy the long weekend everyone!

We are doing a BBQ in the smoker for our close neighbors, but not on Memorial day. Doing it on Sunday. DH has tickets to the Ducks Hockey Playoff game, and NO DAY or event can pry him away from the game! :-) I'll chill by the TV with a glass of wine and watch the shows I have recorded.

Working on Monday and Tuesday I have jury duty.

We are at our beach house for the weekend. We just took a walk on the beach...it's not even 60 degrees. My dad is here too, and 2 of my 3 kids (oldest is elsewhere for the weekend). We'll go out to dinner tonight and will BBQ tomorrow. Family leaves Monday and I'm getting a bonus day -- staying here by myself until Tues afternoon!

We are leaving for Turks & Caicos tomorrow morning! Looking forward to some hot beach weather and much needed R&R.

Nothing planned, but our town has fireworks, parade, concert in the park, etc., so lots of options if we get motivated to leave the house! Kids have finals next week and then school is out for the summer.

Relaxing around here today. The weather is beautiful. Cookouts planned the next two days! Have a great weekend everyone!

Gorgeous weather here, too. We went grocery shopping today and will grill tomorrow. No real plans. I need to wash my Mustang.

My kids always get a 5-day break for Memorial Day weekend so we have been at the beach for several days. We are heading home early (tomorrow) as we are celebrating my father's 80th birthday tomorrow afternoon. At least we will miss the mass exodus/traffic by leaving a day early. I'm kind of glad...I'm looking forward to a day of leisure at home on Monday. We are usually busy with kids' sports on weekends so having a day off at home with my family will be nice. Dh is making ribs on his smoker on Sunday. Yum!

Just got back from picnic with cousins from Mom's side of the family...Monday we picnic with cousins from Dad's side of the family. In between we'll be doing more baking and such of stuff to bring with us. Always enjoy seeing everyone, and there's something wonderful about this time of year where everyone is coming out of hibernation, esp after this horrible winter.

It looks like we have given the rest of the country our good weather ... it has been overcast and low 60's here in LA this past week and will be cool for fireworks and parade.

We came up to Maine on Thursday to spend a week here, my sister in law came with us. Today we're off to the flea market in Fryeburg and then go out to eat and just enjoy being at the lake house. It's 60 degrees now and going to get warmer. Life is good.

Prime work time for us on the Cape. My DH is tending bar all weekend, DS and I working at my sister's breakfast place. I have today off, but worked yesterday and am working tomorrow. It was nice to see our Summer peeps, but boy they can clog up the roads! Today I'll get caught up on laundry and maybe weed the flower bed I need to plant. It's very chilly here, 60's maybe with a strong breeze.

We celebrated my great niece's 2nd birthday yesterday with lots of family and friends. My brothers and SILs, DD and DGD were there as well as friends of my niece and her DH and several small kiddos so it was great fun. Both sets of grandparents were able to come as well as other local relatives so it was quite the party.

We drove to the lake today to chill for a while. Tomorrow is DH's birthday. I am running a 10k race at 7 in the morning and then will just chill out the rest of the day. Plan to grill steaks for DH tomorrow night.

It's all about the garden this weekend. Pruning, transplanting. planting. We put up the fence around the veggie garden yesterday. Today DH planted there while I was busy weeding, pruning, and planting in the flower gardens. I am TIRED! Tomorrow I will transplant a white ball butterfly bush that has been crowded out and work on the smaller flower beds. Then we'll bbq. Trying a pork chop recipe that sounds great.

We're in the midst of flooding rains (OK.) so I totally forgot it was Memorial Day! Almost everyone has been staying home all weekend because of flash flooding. More coming in a few hours. You all eat a hotdog for me! :)

We had my daughter's high school graduation at 8:30 am on Saturday! It was outside and thankfully the weather was very pleasant. We had house guests for the festivities and we went from party to party doing lots of driving and eating. I took my guests to the airport at 6:30 am yesterday. We will have a quiet day today and I am looking forward to it.

We're finally getting the porch, patio and deck ready for the season. The pool was opened last week and we planted the vegetables and annuals, and today we'll relax. Dinner is simple - salad, baked ham and corn on the cob.

We had dinner last week with the kids and they might stop by today depending on their schedule. The pool is too cold for swimming, the temp at night has been in the 50's but the hot tub was wonderfully relaxing last night after all the yard work.

It's a bit chilly here, but we're taking the kids to the neighborhood pool for the first time. I made crock pot baked beans and we'll have veggie burgers and grilled corn later. It should be a very relaxing day, just as soon as I finish my cleaning chores. :) Enjoy the day, everyone!

On the Saturday of Memorial weekend we host a picnic for two of my besties and their families. We have been doing this for close to forty years. My friends each host a picnic on the Fourth and the other on Labor Day. We used to laugh that someday we would be watching our grandchildren at these yearly shindigs. Little did we know that the years would fly around so quickly. I will be the second one to have a set of twin grandbabies. What are the chances of that?

The weather was perfect and we all had so much fun. The kids were playing badminton and hula hooping. They were worn out by the end of the day!

I'm sad it's over, the time to relax and embrace family and friends is always so nice. Thank you for the reminder Brushworks. We have been fortunate enough not to have a loved one lost at war, but my father served 22 years; we planted a tree in our yard yesterday in his honor.