This is a bye week for Ohio State.  Even if you didn’t know this you might have figured it out if you ventured out today–it is a beautiful day and everyone is taking advantage with it without going to a football game.  Here are some things you can do on a bye week (some of which we have done/are doing):

1. Get up early and walk/bird-watch/photograph at a local metropark.  Today was our first visit to Pickerington Ponds and it was a wonderful day–cool breezes, lots of birds, ponds and wetlands.

2. Go out to a late breakfast after you’ve worked up an appetite.  That omelette and the coffee tasted especially good.

3. Cut the grass (next on the list).  Added bonus right now is mulching in the early fallen leaves that I won’t have to rake!

4. Go to a picnic with some friends. I realize this is a different version of tail-gating, but in our area, we won’t have many more weekends for picnics.

5. And since this is a book blog, the day wouldn’t be complete without putting on some good music, curling up with the book i just started on post-WW2 British history with a mug of something good at my side.

So, if you are a football fan, or even if not, what do you do on a bye week?