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How are you going to spend your summer (UConn WBB Offseason) vacation?

There is a lot to watch, as the WNBA, the Ameri Cup (Senior), FIBA Americas U16 to watch potential recruits, FIBA Worlds U19 if some of our freshmen are listed with the team.
 
Same as I’ve spent the last two summers, in Europe, chasing my addiction.
 

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Tending my blueberry plants, feeding the birds and planting our new Lilac Garden. We both hail from Lombard Il. the Lilac capital of the world. Every move we plant and grow Lilacs, an anchor to our hometown. Sitting up high in the Tennessee foothills, looking down on Two Moose Valley.
 
JeannoCT said:
Watching the horses in Saratoga
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Have you been to the state park next door? I went there last year and it was cool being able to try the fresh spring water and sparkling right there from the ground! I'm hoping I can visit the baths this summer.
 
maple said:
Have you been to the state park next door? I went there last year and it was cool being able to try the fresh spring water and sparkling right there from the ground! I'm hoping I can visit the baths this summer.
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I have been thru the state park, and it's lovely. It's another thing to get my husband to walk thru it! They have a spring inside the track where you can taste the water, and it's so nasty!
 
While at home recovering from shoulder replacement I retired on February 28th. So I have time on my hands. I was born on a small farm in southern Italy and moved to the states in 1964. I have not visited my homeland since 1973. My father’s side of the family either moved throughout Italy, Germany and Switzerland. My retirement present to me is a six week vacation to those three countries then a five day stop in Ireland on my way back to CT this fall.
 
We have a busy off-season (well into the new season, planned).
Still up in our Vermont Winter house, it snowed last night and I skied a few hours at Bretton Woods, a perfect geriatric ski area

When it warms up a bit, it's boat time...We sail the LI Sound, out of City Island all Summer after bringing her down from Westbrook CT. where our wonderful yard takes great care of her...

Then a month in Spanish Wells, Bahamas, where we have a beach catamaran...
Usually we stay put for a while after that...start the season and warm up our ski chops...

But not next season...mid-November in the South of Italy with friends, we stay over the holidays when they go home and then after the New Year, it's a month in Corvara, in the heart of the Doloites, really wonderful skiing...

Not bad for a not rich, soon to be 86-year old...(no grands, cheap rent in town, no responsibilities).

BTW: Any boneyarders interested in a sail, just send me a message...always welcoming guests and crew (even better).
 
I've been hybridizing daylilies for a few decades, and now have, in addition to my own hybrids, hundreds of cultivars. So I'll spend the short Maine growing season hybridizing, digging, dividing, transplanting, and populating friends's and neighbors' gardens with flowers.

I just had a look at a daylily group page and found this!

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Here is one of my favorites.

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I am going to watch film of all of our new recruits so I can have ready my starting 5 when someone dares to Post the Thread for the starting 5 next year. Also watch film of who we are interested for 2026. This Boneyard is a tough place if you say something others don't agreed with you could be scorned for the whole season!!!!
 
Henry said:
I'll probably still check in here daily out of habit.
I'll follow my Mets - hopefully as good or better than last year.
We'll be on safari in Kenya and Tanzania for 2 weeks during the summer.
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Would love to get to Tanzania someday. But it won't be this year. Or next. Wife's already making plans for that. Someday....I hope.

As for this summer. Continue watching EPL and Champions League. I've got the FIFA World Club Championship to watch....here in the states. Gold Cup, here in the states. Then the leagues will start up again in August.

I'll also check in here at least 12 times a day to see who we get out of the Transfer Portal and who commits to UCONN. Will also need to know the starting lineup for next year and of course how many minutes each player will get.
 
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msf22b said:
We have a busy off-season (well into the new season, planned).
Still up in our Vermont Winter house, it snowed last night and I skied a few hours at Bretton Woods, a perfect geriatric ski area

When it warms up a bit, it's boat time...We sail the LI Sound, out of City Island all Summer after bringing her down from Westbrook CT. where our wonderful yard takes great care of her...

Then a month in Spanish Wells, Bahamas, where we have a beach catamaran...
Usually we stay put for a while after that...start the season and warm up our ski chops...

But not next season...mid-November in the South of Italy with friends, we stay over the holidays when they go home and then after the New Year, it's a month in Corvara, in the heart of the Doloites, really wonderful skiing...

Not bad for a not rich, soon to be 86-year old...(no grands, cheap rent in town, no responsibilities).

BTW: Any boneyarders interested in a sail, just send me a message...always welcoming guests and crew (even better).
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Speaking of sailing. I'm going through a dating drought and my doctor told me about his nurse who joined a sailing club in Westport, met a man and it now happily married. He suggested I do the same.
 
GoUconn7961 said:
Speaking of sailing. I'm going through a dating drought and my doctor told me about his nurse who joined a sailing club in Westport, met a man and it now happily married. He suggested I do the same.
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Well are you?
 
ConnMotors said:
While at home recovering from shoulder replacement I retired on February 28th. So I have time on my hands. I was born on a small farm in southern Italy and moved to the states in 1964. I have not visited my homeland since 1973. My father’s side of the family either moved throughout Italy, Germany and Switzerland. My retirement present to me is a six week vacation to those three countries then a five day stop in Ireland on my way back to CT this fall.
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Congrats on your retirement!! Enjoy your trip. :)

I’ve been to Dublin twice, but only relatively short visits. Great place.
 
MSGRET said:
I will be recovering from the removal of my thyroid in May. After that I don't know what I will be doing other than staying indoors most of the time with the Las Vegas heat.
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I feel your pain. Knee replacement for me. Too many marathons on bowed legs.

Beyond that, watching the WNBA, playing the flute, and making pennywhistles.
 
Lazy days at the Jersey Shore on the weekends with family and golf during the week up north and some work mixed in. Maybe a trip to Italy or cruise too. Lots of time with my grandkids, one of whom at age 3 would not take off her Paige jersey after she met Paige's Mom and Grandfather at the Graduate Hotel before the South Dakota State game. She slept in the jersey the nights of the semis and NC because the games were too late and woke up to learn they had won. First game ever was at Walsh to see the Hall game but now totally hooked on the Huskies. She can't decide if next year's jersey is gonna be Azzi or Sarah. Grandpa will spank for both!
 
Since I'm not retired (yet) I will be starting the summer with a week at the Outer Banks followed by regular work and lawn maintenance with occasional weekend hikes and ending the summer with a two week trip to Ireland.
 
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