A. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kaiweilau) wrote,@ 2009-07-08 16:18:00 |
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Well, I wanted my summer weekends to be full...
You know, I wanted to be busy and Not-In-My-In-Laws-House for the summer, but this is getting kind of ridiculous. I've been gone almost every single weekend since...Wiscon for various weddings, visiting family / friends.
Last weekend, we flew out to Wisconsin for a good friend's wedding. It was held on the farm that has been in their family since 1942. My friend's mom grew up on the farm, waking up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows, feed the pigs, all before becoming a jazz musician/teacher in NYC for most of her adult life. She's retired to the farm, which is no longer a working farm, but still incredibly beautiful. You know all those children's books written in the 1950s/60s about kids running around in the grassy fields and coming back to the porch to have a tall glass of lemonade? It was that kind of farm. Really awesome, even though it was interesting about how all the white NYCers kept talking about how strangers would wave to them when passing them in a car, which did not happen to any POCers (I'm just going to chalk it up to the fact those people probably don't know any POC, since the wave was explained to me as a just-in-case-I-know-them thing). Though there was an ad for a German festival in October that had the notation in the ad that "A Sgt-of-Arms will be posted to keep the Irish at bay" which I'm not sure if it was a joke or not.
We also got to visit his family friend's farm, which is a working organic sheep farm. If you are into knitting or spinning your own wool, I can think of no better people to support than Greg and Judie Sage at Hickory Hills Farm. They were the nicest people in the world, and took time out of their busy day to show us their farm. I held little lambs in my arms and actually got to watch a lamb being born (which was kind of non-eventful, until you saw a sheep swing around with a baby lamb head sticking out of its butt).
This weekend, I'm skipping Readercon to go visit a good friend in Maine who races sailboats. The following weekend will be the RWA National conference in DC and then the weekend after that, I will be going to Prague, thanks to my husband who was able to get me a free ticket with frequent flyer miles! Since I'm teaching World History this fall, I'm thinking about also a short trip to Bratislava, Slovakia and Vienna, Austria. Suggestions and advice would be welcome!
You know, I wanted to be busy and Not-In-My-In-Laws-House for the summer, but this is getting kind of ridiculous. I've been gone almost every single weekend since...Wiscon for various weddings, visiting family / friends.
Last weekend, we flew out to Wisconsin for a good friend's wedding. It was held on the farm that has been in their family since 1942. My friend's mom grew up on the farm, waking up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows, feed the pigs, all before becoming a jazz musician/teacher in NYC for most of her adult life. She's retired to the farm, which is no longer a working farm, but still incredibly beautiful. You know all those children's books written in the 1950s/60s about kids running around in the grassy fields and coming back to the porch to have a tall glass of lemonade? It was that kind of farm. Really awesome, even though it was interesting about how all the white NYCers kept talking about how strangers would wave to them when passing them in a car, which did not happen to any POCers (I'm just going to chalk it up to the fact those people probably don't know any POC, since the wave was explained to me as a just-in-case-I-know-them thing). Though there was an ad for a German festival in October that had the notation in the ad that "A Sgt-of-Arms will be posted to keep the Irish at bay" which I'm not sure if it was a joke or not.
We also got to visit his family friend's farm, which is a working organic sheep farm. If you are into knitting or spinning your own wool, I can think of no better people to support than Greg and Judie Sage at Hickory Hills Farm. They were the nicest people in the world, and took time out of their busy day to show us their farm. I held little lambs in my arms and actually got to watch a lamb being born (which was kind of non-eventful, until you saw a sheep swing around with a baby lamb head sticking out of its butt).
This weekend, I'm skipping Readercon to go visit a good friend in Maine who races sailboats. The following weekend will be the RWA National conference in DC and then the weekend after that, I will be going to Prague, thanks to my husband who was able to get me a free ticket with frequent flyer miles! Since I'm teaching World History this fall, I'm thinking about also a short trip to Bratislava, Slovakia and Vienna, Austria. Suggestions and advice would be welcome!
