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Election Season

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"I CAN'T WAIT until the election has happened and all this is done!" groused my local wine store owner when I stopped in today. "The ads, the signs, the arguments, it's all too much!" And I see where he's coming from. Yet at the same time, it's all so important. It's so important that Beatrix spent weeks researching how to vote  — and sent the ballot back with us because she (wisely) does not trust the mail. It's so important that when or flight arrived home at 7:35am on Sunday and I realized our #momsrising postcards had arrived while we were gone, I brought all 100 of them to yoga with me so I could write them and send them out that day. It's so important that when I was invited to a screening of Gene McCarthy: Alone In the Land of the Aardvarks  tonight, I declined watching the livestream of Rent to go. (and the amazing Judy Collins even attended and sung a few songs!) The film is not quite done (you can help with finishing funds here...
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Friends and Family Weekend

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We're home, and soooo tired, after a very successful Friends and Family Weekend! Bullet points, or I will never get through everything: Wednesday: - worst customer service ever from Hertz - umm, the Met is closed on Wednesdays - MET UP WITH MY KID!! - great dinner at Wildflower - walked the Highline for a bit - Memoirs of an Amorous Gentleman by Duncan Sheik at the former SNM space. SO much fun! - Dessert at a diner and many spooky Halloween stoops! Thursday: - diner breakfast with the kid - those are not allergies, I have a cold = another Target run - back to the Met - tooling around Larchmont and Tuckahoe (I had hoped for a whole blog post just on those, but....) - TJ's and sushi conveyor belt with the kid - lovely dessert at Underhills Crossing with such great service Friday: - the cute cafe we meant to have breakfast at turned out to be a hospital cafeteria, so we went to Dunkin' - walked around Untermyer Gardens which was gorgeous - lunch at Yonkers Brewing - FAMILY AN...
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"I've Got a Kid in New York"

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We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New York a few times a year. My dad drove me out to college my freshman year, and a friend drove me back to Minnesota after a short summer internship in Charleston. My dad drove me back out the next fall and my mom picked me up — it was the first time she had even seen Tufts. Junior year was in England, and senior year I drove myself to school and back. I flew home for Christmas but didn't go home at other breaks, which will be Beatrix's path as well, if you feel like sending her a Thanksgiving care package. And my parents certainly did not come out for parent's weekend! But here we are, heading out, and I am excited to see Beatrix and learn more about how she experiences school and everyday life. SLC has a great bunch of activities planned. And we'll take her and...
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Craftapped Zero

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The other night, we went out to dinner with our friend Eric before the Sting concert (which was amazing, BTW). That's when he learned that there was a method to my madness of nights out at taprooms; we have a "Craftapped" membership, which gets us BOGO drinks at taprooms across the state 9and across the country!) Basically, for $60  year or so, we get ten BOGOS a month at various taprooms. Which is honestly enough that we almost never use all of them each month, and it's long been a bucket list item of mine to do so (usually we get through 3-6 a month, which is still pretty good). This week I achieved that goal! So here are the places that contributed to that bucket list: 1. Sociable Cider - this one was kind of a mess actually, we went because we could take the dog and work, but it was their birthday and raining and PACKED to the gills and loud so we drank fast and got out. I love their cider though. 2. Bumbling Fools Mead - one of our favorite, most friendly, if not...
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Happy Halloween

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Pictures from some rather restrained Halloween decor. It must be Halloween because my Halloween village is up (complete with creepy new "Cemetery" gate!) Hopefully I can go all out for Christmas!
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Painting the Town

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I went out with a fellow empty-nesting friend the other day and she commented that she had themed her months so far; September was concerts, and October was friends. That's always a highly successful technique for me and I realized I had done so as well, with September being home projects and October bring friends, with an overlay of travel. So in the transition between the two, I bring you paint time! We went out to a stencil night at MetroNOME last week after neighborhood Patio Night, where we got to hang out with the fun people at Owl's Eye Art , screenprint a Roller Girls shirt, and use up a Craftapped BOGO. So all in all a super-successful night. Then, in preparation for moving the houseplants in from the summer, I redid the front plant table, which was looking very worn. I don't have a full before picture, but Trouble helps you get the gist: I painted the base black with some old spray paint: Then pulled out a stencil set I had purchased eons ago when I had taken a s...
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