Would You Like to Ride in my Beautiful Balloon?

I always wanted to go to the Adirondack Balloon Festival. In spite of my fear of heights, I’ve always loved hot air balloons. We looked into camping at the site, but there were too many restrictions. Basically, you need to park your camper by early afternoon on Friday and can’t leave until [...]

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When it Rains, it Pours

This was one of those weekends that there was just too much to do. Everything seemed to fall on the same day. I signed up with my friend Maribeth for an all day scrapbook event. Ed meanwhile, agreed to fiddle with a group that was playing at the dedication opening of a [...]

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Brimfield

The little town of Brimfield Ma. has a giant antique show three times a year. Hundreds of dealers and vendors set up on both sides of the road filling six or eight fields with what a co-worker refers to as “old junk”. For those of us who are lovers and collectors of old [...]

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Water Aerobics

Tonight is the first night of the fall session of Water Aerobics.  I’m not a big fan of exercise in general, but this class is fun, and we really do get a workout.  It helps that the instructor is very nice, too.

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Strange encounters the fair!

Creatures of habit that we are, every year we have to spend an evening at the County Fair. Over the years we’ve gone from taking the kids on the rides, to manning a booth for the Karate school, to watching friends’ kids in the demolition derby. Now we just go to look [...]

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Painting encore!

More house painting this weekend.  I don’t think we’ll ever be finished! (whine, whine, whine)

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