So what did you do this Labor Day Weekend?

[Brucifer]

So the spousarino's mother passed on two weeks ago this Saturday past. So it's been a busy couple of weeks getting stuff taken care of. Her mother was an Alzheimer's victim, so the past three years have been consumed by stuff related to taking care of her. So it turns out that this Labor Day weekend is the first weekend that we have had to ourselves in quite some time. So what has she had me doing??? Labor, lots of physical labor. Like a ton of this house related stuff that we've let slip for the last few years. Today is finishing up rain gutters, cleaning them out, resealing and re-hanging some of them. But in her defense I have to say that she has been bribing me with some good home cooking. I love potato salad, and she made a big batch of that. I love fried chicken, so she cooked up a lot of chicken last night. A neighbor gave her a bunch of fresh peaches from her tree, so spousarino cooked up a big peach pie. I just love peach pie!!!!!! and then she cut the Rhubarb plant, and also made a Rhubarb/Strawberry pie. And Friday night she barbequed a marinated flank steak. So all in all I can't complain about the physical labor as she's been feeding me well! And it's been nice to just spend the weekend around the house without having any crises to attend to. Rather like a luxury weekend for us. :-)

[NeoGen]

That seems like a nice weekend except all the work.

I went to New Orleans with the wife and a friend of her, who was actually a katrina victim, and was forced to move to Arkansas after the disaster. She still had family there so we tagged along with her and she gave us a tour of the place and told us how things were before.
I don't exactly know how many years katrina was but New Orleans is looking good these days, practically everything is rebuilt already, and some things built up from the ground even better than they were before. We had a nice tour all through the downtown and especially on the french quarters, where we ended up sitting in a coffee shop called "Cafe du monde" or something like that, and that I can honestly say is where I had the best tasting coffee ever since I arrived in the USA.

[Brucifer]

That sounds like a really nice short trip! I was down there several years ago and enjoyed it. That was back in the days when I lived outside of Memphis, TN. It would be interesting to see it again now after reading about all the misfortune from Katrina.

[Ototero]

Zip, LaboUr day doesn't have any meaning here in the UK.
My wife was on her laptop.
My eldest son was on his quad and dually.
My youngest son was on his dually.
And I (as you would expect) was on my quad.

All just chillin' doing stuff. Very relaxing.