What do you do when your parade is rained on?

I’ve gotten really good at switching to Plan B in the last few years. Unless it’s something really important to me, I try to waste as little time as possible in anxiety or frustration and to move fairly quickly to, “Ok, then I’ll do this instead….”

Go our for lunch with your family and then start sorting those socks!

I have never been to a parade.

There is always something else to do. Try a new recipe, read a book, spend time with people I like, put a raincoat on and w.a.l.k. the dog.

I write songs. I’m working on a new song right now.

I was born in Washington State, and lived in Canada for a while. My parents said living in rainy climes taught them “never change plans because of the weather”. Go ahead with plans as best you can.

I live in Florida. If you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes.

@Seek that is our mantra here in Chicago…60 degrees out one day…blizzard the next.

I’m a go with the flow type, something changes, I change my plan.
Housework and yard work can always wait, it’s not like another 12/8ths of a gram of dust or an 1/8th if an inch of growing grass is going to have earth shattering consequences. haha
Just kick back and enjoy a couch potato day. :-)

Watch the parade on television.

Seriously, though, while gardening in the rain is going to be no picnic (except that a picnic in the rain can, I suppose, be equally miserable, so maybe gardening in the rain can be a picnic in that regard), I love the rain for its own self. Enjoy the rain. We needed it anyway.

Go shopping and spend some of that money…

Weeds are easier to pull in the rain, easier to dig a hole for new plantings and they are more likely to thrive being planted in moist soil.

@CWOTUS I agree with the “do it in the rain regardless” mentality and did pull weeds in the rain this morning without a raincoat and it was glorious. I only go shopping when it is too fucking hot out to be outside. ;)

I live in the north east of englandtown, it rains stair rods here, absolutely chucks it down & is mostly cold & windy. The only parade we have is our annual butler chase, we release the hounds on him & pursue him through the countryside mounted on our show ponies.
You think the weather’s gonna hold us back? :D

Pray, then go do “Plan ‘B’” if it can be done, if not, move on to “Plan ‘C’”.

Unless I’m actually ‘going somewhere’ to do something – say a concert, or a special market and the like – I rarely have concrete plans that can be rained on.

If I had planned to do a. and rain or something stopped me, I’d take advantage of the time to relax or to do something inside that I had thought I wouldn’t have time to do. For me it could be to sort all those photos out from my last trip to share with friends and family. Or maybe cook something that’s time-consuming. You’re a creative guy, I bet there are a million things you’ve planned to do and haven’t got around to.

Come back and tell us what you did with this unexpected window of opportunity @Cruiser.

Update…I cooked a killer breakfast lunch and wouldn’t ya know it…the sun came out! Dressed for battle and pulled weeds most of the afternoon….took dawg for a walk with the Blonde at my side…mentored #2 son on his car repair project…whipped up a dinner fit for a king….and fired up the Marshall amp and let the neighbors know that Stratocaster guitars are meant to be played loud! Now chillin with a cuppa tea. G’night.

Sounds like a wonderful day @Cruiser. Good on you :-)

@Earthbound_Misfit In 2 hours it will be a pantless Sunday which will make today seem like a chore! ;)

Yaya @Cruiser. As our former, long-missing Zenlike jelly used to say ‘photos or it didn’t happen’. :-) I’m already at pantless Sunday. Feeling free and relaxed down in my part of the world.

My garden is indoors, so no rain factor here ;-) My weekends can be anytime of the week when I’m working odd shifts, like my rotating 12-hour shifts for example. In a sense, I live a far more spontaneous life than a planned one – I live life for the moment.

In trying to stick with the epitome of the question, I usually don’t have a plan B due to the way I live (mentioned above). However, on occasion when I do make plans and something hampers them, I have the old standby to rely on – video games, chess or a good book.