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August 28, 2005
Back to the Grind
Well I'm finally back in an urban environment with a damned internet connection. I spent two blissful weeks without reading an email, deleting comment spam, or reading a blog. Bliss, bliss, bliss. No work, either. Or TV. Or even a movie.
I hiked, kayaked, played with my Mom's digital camera (the Canon Rebel), played tennis, had a great weekend with friends, and basically played house in my family's place upstate.
We stay near Warrensburg, NY, where there is a fantastic smokehouse called Oscar's, so my vegitarian inclinations also went out the window. Whenever I go there the beef jerkey just cannot be ignored, and I end up walking out with all sorts of non-vegetarian items. The horseradish smoked cheddar is fantastic. The bacon, sausage, steak, ditto. I suffered for the indulgence, since my stomach still isn't used to dealing with meat, but damn it was good.
I also spent a day antiquing, which is basically glorified garage-sale hunting with a threefold price markup. I bought old medicine jars and other useless things for no particular reason.
Since Derek couldn't take off quite as much time as I could, I had the house -- in the middle of the woods -- to myself for a few days. I had the optimistic idea that I would use the time to plan ahead a little, maybe do some writing or knitting or silent contemplation of the hummingbirds (you know the sitting on a tropical beach fantasy? Like that, but in the Adirondacks), but I got caught up in a million tiny little projects and activities with the neighbors (more pointless antiquing) and managed almost no contemplation whatsoever. But I did reach the ultimate vacation point of having spend so much time in the woods that I was ready to start working again. We've always spent a week per summer upstate (since college, anyway), but it never seems like enough. Two is perfect.
I'm heading back up for Labor Day, but it looks like I'll miss this: The "World's Largest Garage Sale". A bit of an overstatement, possibly, but nirvana for junkies like me, I'll bet.
Posted by csageday at August 28, 2005 11:59 PM