Well, here comes the weekend!

Perhaps predictably, we’ll have showers on Saturday, but at least not all day long. In fact, the weekend looks to be pretty darn nice.

So, how will you spend your weekend?

One idea is to walk with a purpose. Tomorrow morning is the March of Dimes WalkAmerica, an annual fundraising event for the March of Dimes, an organization that was originally created by FDR to help eradicate polio and which now focuses its efforts on research to prevent premature birth and birth defects, and also give money to support families afflicted by these issues. If you’re interested in participating, you can sign up at www.walkamerica.org (you also have access to convenient easy-to-use online fundraising tools), or if you can’t walk but would like to donate, you can e-mail me and I’ll send you the link to my fundraising page (my friends have under-performed and I’m waaaaaay short on my personal goal of $2000 for this year…).

Of course, there are many other things you can, and should, do this weekend. Last weekend at the Rusty residence was devoted to yard work, but my perplexingly lush back-yard grass needs another mowing already. The beach should be very nice Sunday. Same with Multnomah Falls.

That’s what I love about Oregon (and Portland in particular) — whether it’s hiking, biking, spelunking, sand-dollar gathering, fishing — you name it, it’s within 90 minutes of where you live.

It’s going to be pretty nice out this weekend . . . even for an avowed X-Box enthusiast like myself, it would be a shame to waste it.

Have pretty-weather ideas to share? Add them below in a comment…