Non-picnic
Aug. 19th, 2007 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomAs feared, the planned picnic at the beach was rained out, but never mind! It was a wonderful day despite that.
It rained off and on, but about 10:00, when I called Barb (who was organizing this), it had stopped, both by me and up in Waukegan, so the consensus was to give it a try. I cut up veggies for salad, put everything together and drove up north. As I hit the Edens Expressway, so did the rain! I'd planned that I'd go to Margaret's, and then we'd drive in her car to the lakefront (since, as a resident, she gets better - and free - parking). We stopped by the grocery store to pick up corn for the grill, and decided to call Barb to see if we should pick up anything else. It's a good thing we did, because I discovered Barb had called me (for some reason, my phone was on "silent"!) Called her back, told her where we were, and she said, "You might want to not buy the corn". Apparently, the Doppler didn't look good. So we put back most of the corn, and Margaret and I went back to her house, where we discovered that Caroline had stopped on her way home from the beach and left a dessert inside Margaret's door!
We were sitting around drinking hot chocolate when we got a call from a Peggy, who said she and Cheryl and the girsl, and - surprise! - our friend Sue, were downtown, so we told them to come over. Sue had driven up from Springfield, but had told Cheryl not to say anything because she wasn't sure if she'd make it. So we got back on the phone and called everyone else who'd packed it in because of the rain, and we decided to "picnic" at Margaret's. The rain lightened a bit, and we were able to grill the brats and burgers and corn. It was a really nice time, and it was great to see Sue, so who cares if it rained? We were warm and dry and well-fed and having a good time. We are really a pretty flexible and spontaneous bunch - and we care more about being with each other than having things go exactly as planned. (It's an attitude that I can't recommend highly enough!)
It rained off and on, but about 10:00, when I called Barb (who was organizing this), it had stopped, both by me and up in Waukegan, so the consensus was to give it a try. I cut up veggies for salad, put everything together and drove up north. As I hit the Edens Expressway, so did the rain! I'd planned that I'd go to Margaret's, and then we'd drive in her car to the lakefront (since, as a resident, she gets better - and free - parking). We stopped by the grocery store to pick up corn for the grill, and decided to call Barb to see if we should pick up anything else. It's a good thing we did, because I discovered Barb had called me (for some reason, my phone was on "silent"!) Called her back, told her where we were, and she said, "You might want to not buy the corn". Apparently, the Doppler didn't look good. So we put back most of the corn, and Margaret and I went back to her house, where we discovered that Caroline had stopped on her way home from the beach and left a dessert inside Margaret's door!
We were sitting around drinking hot chocolate when we got a call from a Peggy, who said she and Cheryl and the girsl, and - surprise! - our friend Sue, were downtown, so we told them to come over. Sue had driven up from Springfield, but had told Cheryl not to say anything because she wasn't sure if she'd make it. So we got back on the phone and called everyone else who'd packed it in because of the rain, and we decided to "picnic" at Margaret's. The rain lightened a bit, and we were able to grill the brats and burgers and corn. It was a really nice time, and it was great to see Sue, so who cares if it rained? We were warm and dry and well-fed and having a good time. We are really a pretty flexible and spontaneous bunch - and we care more about being with each other than having things go exactly as planned. (It's an attitude that I can't recommend highly enough!)
