09/24/2006
A Blog Is Born
An hour ago, we rolled excitedly into our driveway to be confronted with one catwithhurtfeelings who was immediately fed and thereby mollified, and one neigborbearinggifts, Ali from next door. Said gifts were not from Ali himself - one was a backpack I ordered on Amazon for ergonomic laptop schlepping and the other was a package from the bountiful Leela Sreshta (D - TX).
Aunty Leela's package contained two bars of soap, one box of sprinkles, one package of dehydrated peas, two packages whose contents I have not yet fathomed, one bag of fruit gums, two bars of chocolate, miscellaneous garments and a bracelet for Kiara. We love Aunty Leela!
To return to our rolling in, however - we were returning from a long weekend in Pennsylvania. I had a holiday on Friday for some reason, and the professor who takes my Thursday class obligingly repaired to Australia. Ranjit took Thursday and Friday off and Kiara played hookey from school and we wended our way southward.
We stayed on a working farm, where we did some of the working. See website http://www.800padutch.com/z/oldfogiefarm.htm.
Kiara got to milk a goat, brush a rather unsightly pig, feed chickens and collect eggs and feed a calf from a giant bottle. There were also horses, dogs, llamas and guinea fowl.
Our suite consisted of two rooms and a bath and was very quaint. Also very quaint and quirky were our hosts, Biz and Tom. Biz is in her sixties, Tom in his seventies, and they run their twenty acre farm practically alone. Their daughter, Vickie, helps when they have a full house. Biz's breakfasts were fantastic - avocadoes, bacon and eggs, baked oatmeal and corncakes with pine nuts to name just a few menu items.
We visited choochootown, a miniature replica of the county we were staying in. It was fascinating - a miniature house caught fire and miniature firemen put it out, a miniature farmer tried to shoot a miniature gopher who kept disappearing down his miniature hole, and Kiara's favorite was a cave with fluorescent fungi in it, through which a train would occasionally pass.
Other highlights of our stay included a dinner with an Amish family (they have no electricity and live and dress the same way they did two centuries ago) and a visit to Dutch Wonderland, an amusement park that Kiara thoroughly enjoyed.
I will post pictures shortly!
An hour ago, we rolled excitedly into our driveway to be confronted with one catwithhurtfeelings who was immediately fed and thereby mollified, and one neigborbearinggifts, Ali from next door. Said gifts were not from Ali himself - one was a backpack I ordered on Amazon for ergonomic laptop schlepping and the other was a package from the bountiful Leela Sreshta (D - TX).
Aunty Leela's package contained two bars of soap, one box of sprinkles, one package of dehydrated peas, two packages whose contents I have not yet fathomed, one bag of fruit gums, two bars of chocolate, miscellaneous garments and a bracelet for Kiara. We love Aunty Leela!
To return to our rolling in, however - we were returning from a long weekend in Pennsylvania. I had a holiday on Friday for some reason, and the professor who takes my Thursday class obligingly repaired to Australia. Ranjit took Thursday and Friday off and Kiara played hookey from school and we wended our way southward.
We stayed on a working farm, where we did some of the working. See website http://www.800padutch.com/z/oldfogiefarm.htm.
Kiara got to milk a goat, brush a rather unsightly pig, feed chickens and collect eggs and feed a calf from a giant bottle. There were also horses, dogs, llamas and guinea fowl.
Our suite consisted of two rooms and a bath and was very quaint. Also very quaint and quirky were our hosts, Biz and Tom. Biz is in her sixties, Tom in his seventies, and they run their twenty acre farm practically alone. Their daughter, Vickie, helps when they have a full house. Biz's breakfasts were fantastic - avocadoes, bacon and eggs, baked oatmeal and corncakes with pine nuts to name just a few menu items.
We visited choochootown, a miniature replica of the county we were staying in. It was fascinating - a miniature house caught fire and miniature firemen put it out, a miniature farmer tried to shoot a miniature gopher who kept disappearing down his miniature hole, and Kiara's favorite was a cave with fluorescent fungi in it, through which a train would occasionally pass.
Other highlights of our stay included a dinner with an Amish family (they have no electricity and live and dress the same way they did two centuries ago) and a visit to Dutch Wonderland, an amusement park that Kiara thoroughly enjoyed.
I will post pictures shortly!
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