Ing: First Day of Summer Vacation Edition

I came across this guy on my walk this morning. I’m thinking of him as a good sign, a harbinger of slow days to come, a summer mascot.

Making a summer to-do list with the kids. It includes sleeping in a tent in the back yard and seeing bears, but I’m hoping we don’t get those two things crossed off simultaneously. My personal to-do list includes blogging and sewing and finding that giant stone head that’s somewhere in Lincoln.

Planning to do a Whole 30 with Jason (and a few other friends) in June (I hope to write about it as we go. For now, I’m madly collecting recipes).

Taking apart and rebuilding a bicycle. Yep, I’m becoming a regular bike geek. I am participating in the Earn a Bike program at the Lincoln Bike Kitchen and seriously loving every minute of it. (I  make ridiculous mistakes, like trying to get the tire off of the wheel without first detaching the wheel from the fork. But whatever. I now know what a derailleur is and a crank puller and how to true a wheel.)

Reading random books I find lying around the house. I would welcome recommends for summer reading.

Watching the Tonight Show, or at least the monologue, pretty much every night. We watch on Hulu, so it’s always a one-day delay. And The Paradise, a BBC series set in England in the 1870s.

Celebrating several graduations this weekend as well as a few new babes just born or coming any day now.

Looking forward to the next eleven weeks or so of mostly unscheduled days. I’m hoping there will be lots of time for exploring and wondering and spending with friends.