What's your perfect Saturday

Interestingly enough when I was teaching one of the annual paper assignments was to write about "My Perfect Saturday". I remember one 13 year old writing about going to NJ to a motel to shack up with his girlfriend. (I did ask him to rewrite it)

My "Perfect Saturday" includes breakfast with my wife, a shopping spree at my LHS, hot wings somewhere, a good movie or football game, some guitar time, and evening time in the hot tub. I'd like a couple of hundred buck$ to spend on trains at the LHS.

I do shoot as well, but it is getting boring. More fun with friends definitely.

Well my perfect Saturday starts with a trip to lowes. Weather permitting I then cut some firewood. The only sound that intrigues me as much as a train whistle is the sound of my stihl. Later in the afternoon I work on the layout. Once the wife and I get back from dinner it's time to start up the trains. 

My perfect Saturday is riding the East Broad Top and the Rockhill Trolley Museum

Until I can do that again, I'm happy with R&N 425, Jersey Central 113, and other local steamers. Visiting Strasburg, I enjoy the Choo-Choo Barn, The Railroad Museum pf Pennsylvania, and the first-class equipment and operations on "America's Oldest Short Line." I usually eat in the remodeled P70 coach at Red Caboose Motel.

A perfect train Saturday would to get up and have breakfast with my buddies and then attend a good train show together.  Lunch at a favorite restaurant and then back to one of our houses for an operating session.  Then a quiet dinner with my wife.

Art 

Hmmm… this would be a recurring Saturday….

It begins shortly after midnight with a wild night with my wife, followed by a late morning breakfast at our favorite local restaurant.  On the way to the restaurant, I wave hello to the landscapers as the prepare to cut my lawn for me.

After breakfast we drive over to the local hobby shop and pick up a few pieces of rolling stock and two or three articulated scale steam locomotives as a couple ABBA diesel sets.  

By early afternoon we stop by Brusstars for some ice cream to take with us to do some local rail fanning on the Northeast Corridor for a few hours. (Look at that oil train coming off the Port Line at Perryville, Md. next to that passing Acela!!)

Later we stop for an early dinner at our favorite fine dining establishment for a 8oz. filet and lobster tail and cold frosty Yuengling draught.  After dinner we head to the ballpark to see the Phillies pitch a no-hitter, hit a grand slam and turn a triple play in a big victory!!

And after another wild night, we wake up on Sunday and begin to pack for the York Meet!  

My Perfect Saturday?

Grass doesn't need mowing, no honey do list, SWMBO off visiting relatives, nice chunk of slow elk & corn on the cob for the BBQ & a new to me train to play with!

A perfect Saturday would be driving up to a lake park in the morning with veteran friends of mine and cooking a big breakfast, including coffee, on an open fire.  The rest of the day would be talking about the good old days and having a couple of bottles of suds.  Can't beat that with a stick.

Steve, Lady and Tex

 For

me,a fellow who works every dang Saturday,to be on vacation every Saturday,that would be a perfect Saturday

This is not the perfect Saturday as you mentioned nothing about Mama, dogs or your pickup truck.

My "perfect" Saturday starts the preceding Monday at work when I start thinking (and dreaming) of being able of spending a few uninterrupted hours in the train room!

Get up early, get the chores done really early.  Go out and get the errands done efficiently and quickly.  Spend the afternoon in the train room without frivolous interruptions.  

Seldom happens.

Being retired, I stay away from my gun club, archery club, car wash, retail stores and the like on weekends to avoid crowds. The time I spend with my trains is minimal these days...however, my "O" layout is in my bedroom, so I can appreciate it at least twice a day.

After spending all week making models of buildings or freight cars for some very cool customers , Friday afternoon I do my yard work , great work out , then Saturday I spend it with my girl friend at the beach , or in the pool , shopping , dinner out with music and dancing at Port Canaveral , Sunday lazy day grilling by the pool . My gal loves my work .

She is a nurse and likes I am working doing what I enjoy. One in a million

Cold, snowing, and/or rain, cloudy.

Spend all day on my trains and watching train videos.

occassional walks in the snow.

Brian, you think "big". I love it except for the part about the Phillies, well that's OK as long as they are not playing the Braves. 

I usually spend no time on weekends with the trains. That's because my girlfriend is much younger than me & still works. She's off on Sat. & Sun so we spend our time together then.

Matthew B:

Good to see another Steve Goodman fan on the Forum, but you left out mention of "prison".

Tony

Also "getting drunk"!

The perfect Saturday would last 48 hours.

You also forgot  "rain"...

Dave

surfing

trains with coffee

BS with neighbor for an hour

college football

work on layout

more football

run trains

football

walk dogs

dinner out

trains

football

bed

Sleep late, at least until 6am run a few errands and find some time for train  related activity either at club or on my layout

Brian, the Phillies part of my scenario was the fantasy part of my perfect Saturday! 

My perfect Saturday would be to go through the entire day pain free.

Start early with a stuffing brunch, then off to a good, large train show, in which something interesting is found.  Find something new, interesting and scenic to explore

on the way home such as an abandoned grain elevator, or RR station, or quaint town

with rustic buildings to photograph.   That evening, rather that time wasted in front of the boob toob,  hours are spent at the workbench building an interesting

structure or piece of rolling stock. This is a Sat. at home...if traveling, the beginning brunch may be similar, but new and different sights may make it an extraordinary Saturday.

A perfect Saturday is one where I can sleep in as late as I want or need to and then can get up and do whatever it is that I want to do all day long. 

Everything else and specifics after those criteria are just details....

My perfect Saturday would be waking up in the Ballantine brewery with nobody around.  Yummmm   Limo shows up and drives me to Puerto Rico.  Yup that's right they built the bridge.  Winning a million bucks at the casino and hanging on Palamino Island.  Then calling Mr Muffin and Charlie Nassau to spend whats left

Depending latley were the #@%^ I am at, I may check out the local hobby shops. read train mags and take a nap, when I am home I go to the local Home Depot for things to complete my basement so I can build my dream layout and work till I drop, then read train mags and watch the Big Bang Theory ( watch the girls mostly)