Vacation:Part I or Gee, it's hard to count gauge in the car.
Summer. Finally. Long awaited and glorious.
I now have a 1st grader, a 4th grader and a 7th grader. Amazing. The first thing we do after the end of school is pack up and bug out as a family for a vacation to relax and reconnect. This year we headed to points east. First to Herkimer, NY to play in the diamond mines (aka double terminated quartz crystals) and then off to Mystic, Connecticut to play by the sea.
Herkimer delivered fun in the form of wandering around giant open pits and breaking big rocks into little rocks.
They have hammers and aren't afraid to use them!
Beginning of the excavations.
Excavations continuing.
And continuing.
Off to find better hunting grounds.
The pit mines aren't the prettiest places but right between the two is this lovely little stream. Central New York is really very lush and a bit bucolic.
So after that... Have I mentioned that I knit? ...... Stop that laughing back there. .... Well, of course I have. The biggest yarn store east of the Mississippi (that was fun to type), is in Northampton, MA. Just a short detour off of I90. Way, way, too much fun was had here.
Maybe not quite Mecca for fiber enthusiasts but darn close.
So then we were off to Mystic. Here's a set-up shot..
And another of the town itself.
Yes, I timed the shot so the lift bridge was up. Double points for that.
I found my near Nirvana experience in Webs yarn shop and Mike found his just inside Mystic Seaport.
Pretty much any day, a "Wall of Fudge" sounds like a darn good idea.
We went for the prerequisite harbor boat tour. The boat was a steamer complete with burly man shoveling coal into the furnace powering the steam engine. Surprisingly quite engine compared to a typical internal combustion one. (While we're discussing surprises -- I had no idea Connecticut was so hilly and forested.)
Really what kid wouldn't grab the wheel and give it a spin.
And yes, there is more vacation coming and yes, I knit during the 16 hours we spent in the car and back and have a nearly completed skirt to show for it.
And...why is my font so large. I feel like I'm yelling..... (Added later: Apparently it's the font is only large while I'm editting. It looks fine published. Put that one on the list to figure out....later.)
I now have a 1st grader, a 4th grader and a 7th grader. Amazing. The first thing we do after the end of school is pack up and bug out as a family for a vacation to relax and reconnect. This year we headed to points east. First to Herkimer, NY to play in the diamond mines (aka double terminated quartz crystals) and then off to Mystic, Connecticut to play by the sea.
Herkimer delivered fun in the form of wandering around giant open pits and breaking big rocks into little rocks.
They have hammers and aren't afraid to use them!
Beginning of the excavations.
Excavations continuing.
And continuing.
Off to find better hunting grounds.
The pit mines aren't the prettiest places but right between the two is this lovely little stream. Central New York is really very lush and a bit bucolic.
So after that... Have I mentioned that I knit? ...... Stop that laughing back there. .... Well, of course I have. The biggest yarn store east of the Mississippi (that was fun to type), is in Northampton, MA. Just a short detour off of I90. Way, way, too much fun was had here.
Maybe not quite Mecca for fiber enthusiasts but darn close.
So then we were off to Mystic. Here's a set-up shot..
And another of the town itself.
Yes, I timed the shot so the lift bridge was up. Double points for that.
I found my near Nirvana experience in Webs yarn shop and Mike found his just inside Mystic Seaport.
Pretty much any day, a "Wall of Fudge" sounds like a darn good idea.
We went for the prerequisite harbor boat tour. The boat was a steamer complete with burly man shoveling coal into the furnace powering the steam engine. Surprisingly quite engine compared to a typical internal combustion one. (While we're discussing surprises -- I had no idea Connecticut was so hilly and forested.)
Really what kid wouldn't grab the wheel and give it a spin.
And yes, there is more vacation coming and yes, I knit during the 16 hours we spent in the car and back and have a nearly completed skirt to show for it.
And...why is my font so large. I feel like I'm yelling..... (Added later: Apparently it's the font is only large while I'm editting. It looks fine published. Put that one on the list to figure out....later.)
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