The morning fog lifts off the Connecticut River on our morning walk
Mike and Runnemede (Mt. Ascutney in the background)
Liz and Pete off to the their Wellness Week in our car
The little people playing in the late afternoon sun
Chelle's mom (Paula) had us all over for Vietnamese Pho (fuh)
JD and Syd hanging out.
I am off to a good start to the week. Up early, walk, some yoga, some laundry, some work. We don't have internet at our house so I either have to go into the office (where I ususally get sucked into numerous other projects) or can come to the solitude of McK's house and use her office upstairs, that I used for the 5 months we lived here. Feels like home and it is quiet. Just me and my computer and my music. I am off to write a post for the Inn site so be sure to keep your eye on that site as well. We have been really busy so there haven't been heaps of posts, but we try to get one up every week day. Last week Liz and Pete just hung around Windsor and Lucy spent the days with them and took trips to Woodstock, Hanover, and they made it to Boston last week as well. I am sure she will post some pix if she took any. They left yesterday for the Omega Centre to do their workshops. I think Pete will be back on Friday for the weekend. Mike and I are planning to take a nice long weekend with them in September and go to Maine and cruise into Canada and to Montreal. The weather has been gorgeous so lets hope it stays. Off to continue being productive.
Turns out we didn't go to Maine. Lucy, Pete, and Liz are off to Boston for the day. We get them to ourselves for some time so Lucy is spending QT today and we are thinking a long weekend trip around Maine and Canada could be cool. Oh, and here are before and after pictures of the back porch that we tore out last week. We will be having big doors put in and then will be taking out that interior wall and reclaim all that space for a nice dining area. It is the first in what will be a very long process of renovations and redesigning. I think the doors may be going in today actually. It is amazing how much more light we get into the house with that dingy back porch gone and able to enjoy our wonderful little Lake view. We are one step closer to having access to the porch from the inside of the house so we don't have to go out the front door and all the way around.
It was gorgeously warm and sunny today. I was out and about taking pix for the Inn marketing stuff I have been working on. Looks like we are off for a drive tomorrow to Maine perhaps?
Uh this was absolutely incredible. Absolutely. Holy Crap and I have only seen the first 30 minutes so far.AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! The coolest thing I have seen in a long time. China ROCKS! You can go to the NY times here and Boston Globe here to see more pictures, AMAZING pictures. I was even excited to see the nest back in October of last year when it was under construction. China. Zhang Yimou (the director), holy crap dude. Update: Okay so now I have watched another 30 minutes and did you see the 2008 people running around in perfect circles? NO really, did you? I think I might have to watch this daily for inspiration.
Having not had a baby and gone through child birth, I have no idea what it is like (although I do have a little insight and empathy now) to birth a child and go through labor but I do know that my sister-in-law is pretty much Superwoman. She has had one ride of a pregnancy and has willed this baby to stay in when it seemingly wanted to come out and now that that it should come out, it won't! I stayed at their house last night so they could slip away in the night if they needed to go to the hospital and was ready to be on little people duty in the morning, but the night slipped passed and there were no little people waking me up or screaming so our Superwoman of a sister made it through one more night. May this be the day!
Anyone recognize this place? Yeah, that's right read on.
Ok. Monday I woke up and checked out some of the videos we had taken at the Coldplay concert and they were quite cool so I went and downloaded the new album and re-listened to all the songs and then remembered how good they were live. Sure, I have liked Coldplay songs through the years but I guess something about having heard the songs live and quite likeing the new album put me in this serious post-concert high.
At one point in the afternoon Mck came into the office and was all up in her post-Coldplay concert tizzy, jumping up and down (literally) talking about how she wanted to see them again. We looked up their tour and they were at the Garden in Boston at 7:30. We joked that if we left then, we could make it in time. Ha. She went home and I went back to work. At 5:49 she started a chat wondering what I was up to for the night and then sent me this video and link to a blog that had been to the concert in Hartford.
Yes, that video is the perfect visualisation for that song, with build,the harmony, and the pyrotechnics. Yum. A nutty conversation then took place where we just nearly got in the car and drove 2 hours to see a concert we had just seen without even knowing IF and HOW MUCH tickets would be. Nuts right? I couldn't handle the adventure of it all! But finally we came to our senses and settled on not going and returning to our regularly scheduled Monday night at home.
UNTIL...20 minutes later she called me and said that her husband told her she should go and that sometimes we need to do spontaneous things (ha) and not to worry about their son at which point, Mike, said to me "GO!" and 10 minutes later we were on the interstate out of town on our way to Boston to see the show we had seen two days ago not knowing IF we could get tickets and HOW MUCH they would be.
Man, we made good time and right down to the Garden, parked and ran to the center where what we found was more like a government assembly in China (and I've been to China) than a rock concert. People waiting in lines, no one milling around, quiet, orderly, and no one selling tickets, not a friendly scalper in sight! We circumambulated the entire centre 4 times and repeatedly bumped into the same dumb people who thought they could get coldplay tickets AFTER the concert started...but a bit shocked at what we beheld.
So I went to Boston to see Coldplay and all I got were these pitiful pictures but boy was it spontaneous and exciting. And N8 (who was also dumbfounded by the fact there were no scalpers) found some numbers on Craig's List that I called. Sure, one of them retorted, "Um, yeah I sold my tickets. The Concert is tonight, right now actually."...like I didn't know that. It's like no one has ever tried to buy tickets to a sold out show of an extremely popular band half way through their concert. Wow, we're dumb.
Anyway, then I called Luke but talked to Rick and he works for a big scalping ring (but likes to call it Professional Ticket Sales) and ending up being in Texas so tried to get a hold of his boys in Boston and was very confused, again, why I was trying to get into a concert under way but I just wanted to see IF he could get us tickets and I have seen the show and would catch any part of it that I could. Turns out his buddies didn't answer, because they were home and in bed probably, but he told me to save his # and call me and next time he'd get us a real good discount on some tickets and he could even email them! Oh and he called me Sweet Honey or was it Sweet Baby, it's all a blur. A very funny blur.
5 hours from when we took off we were back home. Sure, it would have been more fun to actually have been to the concert, but we created some pretty sweet memories in the process of not seeing them. That is good enough for me.
The cool bridge outside the Garden and a shot through the gates of their tour vehicles...as close as we got.
Last night we made our way to Hartford,CT for a much needed break in this week. While we were still roomies with N8 and McK, we saw this commercial and pretty much couldn't get enough so when they got tickets to the concert in CT, we got some too. When they played this song, I channeled the commercial.
Can you see N8 and Mck?
Oh I see them!
Getting the stage ready...
1st picture together in a long time...as we wait.
Viva La Vida
They like to blast with lights on the strong beats. I like it.
Yellow
They ran up right next to N8 and Mck
The end.
It was fun to get out of town for a few hours, do some people watching, and be part of a performance spectacle. Concerts are cool. I love the anticipation of the start and when the stage blacks out and the lights pop on and the crowd of the thousands goes crazy. Being part of that is a bit of a rush.The stage show was sweet with lots of light and music syncopation. I have spent the day dancing like Chris Martin because that is also pretty sweet.
This summer is screaming by like a banshee. It seemed like we were counting down the weeks for our family reunion and now it has come and gone and the summer has sort of exploded in a semi-chaotic way. I finally was revisiting the family pictures we took and I know I posted this one before but I love it and all of its little bits. I find it much more entertaining and wonderful than a normal smiley family picture. It reminds me of each of us and how fun and cool we all are, even though we are totally flat out busy and crazy. Love these kooky people.
The newest flower to bloom in my front yard
The morning fog lifts off the Connecticut River on our morning walk
Mike and Runnemede (Mt. Ascutney in the background)
Liz and Pete off to the their Wellness Week in our car
The little people playing in the late afternoon sun
Chelle's mom (Paula) had us all over for Vietnamese Pho (fuh)
JD and Syd hanging out.
It was gorgeously warm and sunny today. I was out and about taking pix for the Inn marketing stuff I have been working on. Looks like we are off for a drive tomorrow to Maine perhaps?
Uh this was absolutely incredible. Absolutely. Holy Crap and I have only seen the first 30 minutes so far.AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! The coolest thing I have seen in a long time. China ROCKS! You can go to the NY times here and Boston Globe here to see more pictures, AMAZING pictures. I was even excited to see the nest back in October of last year when it was under construction. China. Zhang Yimou (the director), holy crap dude. 
Update: Okay so now I have watched another 30 minutes and did you see the 2008 people running around in perfect circles? NO really, did you? I think I might have to watch this daily for inspiration.
Having not had a baby and gone through child birth, I have no idea what it is like (although I do have a little insight and empathy now) to birth a child and go through labor but I do know that my sister-in-law is pretty much Superwoman. She has had one ride of a pregnancy and has willed this baby to stay in when it seemingly wanted to come out and now that that it should come out, it won't! I stayed at their house last night so they could slip away in the night if they needed to go to the hospital and was ready to be on little people duty in the morning, but the night slipped passed and there were no little people waking me up or screaming so our Superwoman of a sister made it through one more night. May this be the day!
Can you see N8 and Mck?
Oh I see them!
Getting the stage ready...
1st picture together in a long time...as we wait.
They like to blast with lights on the strong beats. I like it.
Yellow
They ran up right next to N8 and Mck
The end.
This summer is screaming by like a banshee. It seemed like we were counting down the weeks for our family reunion and now it has come and gone and the summer has sort of exploded in a semi-chaotic way. I finally was revisiting the family pictures we took and I know I posted this one before but I love it and all of its little bits. I find it much more entertaining and wonderful than a normal smiley family picture. It reminds me of each of us and how fun and cool we all are, even though we are totally flat out busy and crazy. Love these kooky people.