Taking Charge

Last week, Rob and I went blueberry picking on one of his days off. It was the last time for the year that we’ll be able to go, most likely. I didn’t think we’d get to go a second time and silly me, I forgot to take pictures while we were there. It was a beautiful day to do it, for sure. I ended up getting slightly sunburnt on my shoulder and my foot of all places. That’s what I get for wearing flip flops in the field.

I get yelled at for it, because it’s highly dangerous to wear anything but sneakers and long pants in a field, even if it’s clean and well kept. That’s alright though, I have been running around in fields all my life in shorts and bare feet and never really had a concern about it. I wouldn’t go completely barefoot now, though, but I really don’t worry too much.

I can’t wait until next summer, honestly, because I plan on going cherry picking at least once at the *good* orchard, blueberry picking once, if not two or three times, plus I intend to have a decent sized garden next year with our own fresh veggies. I have missed that this summer, I just have to make sure to do a decent sized plot, rather than plant a few things here and a few things there like I did the last couple years.

• Wednesday already over? Where did this week go? Oh yeah.. the doctor’s office! #
• Happy to have had one more beautiful day at the park. Wishing it had been longer tho. #

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Today was a beautiful day and it was spent eating lunch at Stewart Park in Ithaca before doing some grocery shopping. It was a beautiful day, probably one of the last really beautiful days when I’ll be able to go somewhere.

We stopped at Wendy’s and grabbed our lunch and headed to the park. There were crazy amounts of geese and ducks and gulls around and they didn’t even try to run or get away either. So I was really up close and personal with them. It was funny cuz they kept getting closer and closer. I think they wanted us to feed them. There were a couple geese with broken wings, tho.

After a bit of time taking pictures, we headed out for the rest of our uneventful errands and finally ended up back home where we put stuff away and I cooked steak for dinner. I love my indoor grill, it’s so damn handy. Tomorrow I’m planning on cooking brats on it. I have the stuff to make muffins, 2 different types of bread.. I’m set to cook and bake and grill. I’m a happy girl about that.

Now, I’m going to go relax for the night.

So, I started a new project. I have a bunch of them to finish. I need to finish the pink blanket soon, but it’s still too warm to work on a big, heavy blanket like that. I am working on another gift that’s much lighter weight so it’s not so hot when I’m working on it.

I can’t wait until it cools off so I can crochet without dying from the heat. *gigglebounces*

I was going to post more but I got distracted… lol tomorrow maybe

• My days are all kinds of screwed up.. it feels like Monday. #

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• Very much happy about having gotten a few posts written on the ‘to do’ list #
• Productive Mondays are better than lazy Mondays. Even if it is a holiday. #

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There are absolutely no words for just how freaking awesome this guy is… Seriously…

Saturday the 16th was the Parade. I didn’t go last year, which I regretted afterward, so no matter how horrible I felt that morning, I got up, got dressed and we went.

I’m glad we did because while we sat waiting for the parade to start, I commented to Rob that I didn’t see anyone that I knew. He told me to turn around and see who was coming out of the store, so I did and lo and behold it was someone that I hadn’t seen since more than to pass each other in the store briefly since 1995. I was excited and extremely happy to stand and talk to him and catch up. I got his email address, but he’s not replied to me yet. I’m okay with that, since I didn’t figure that he would. I would have liked to have been able to get together with him and have a real catch up session, but I’ll be glad for the 10 or so minutes and the hug that I got that morning.

The parade itself was pretty uneventful, outside of one of the cars breaking down halfway through the parade, across from where we were sitting. The floats were very very well done, and there are 140 pictures in my picasa album if you want to check them out. I definitely enjoyed myself and don’t regret crawling out of bed early to go. It wasn’t hot at all, in fact it was pretty chilly in the shade. I was glad when the sun started to hit, even tho it made taking pictures difficult.

In a sense, I’m already looking forward to next year, but I know 2 years from now will be amazing, because it will be the 100th year.

So in my last post, I was talking about Spencer Picnic and their music, now we’ll talk about the fireworks. The night of the fireworks was a bit chilly, which is quite unusual. Usually it’s only chilly when it’s rained at some point during that week, but we had no rain for over a week.

We sat in the car waiting for them to start and they started off with the flag wall, national anthem and such. They had a beautiful display, as always, and actually had a few surprises, including a few sprays. Sounded like machine gun fire and was this beautiful multi-color spray. At one point, they set off these ground fireworks that were unique. They sent up this like giant fireball or mushroom cloud. It let off enough heat that as far back as we were, we could feel it.

They had a longer display, it was definitely better than the last few have been. Hopefully it will only continue to get better. It’s funny, for such a small event, the crowd it draws seems to always be into it. But really, it’s the only major event we have that’s free. It’s also when a lot of the families get together, it’s the family reunion event. A lot of people shun the event, including me for a few years, but I still went and I will continue to go.

• Pondering being productive, but not really wanting to.. too f’n hot #
• Being productive isn’t as fun when you’re hungry. Want. Pizza. Now. #

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