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A Fine Weekend
Feb. 8th, 2009 05:19 pmWeekends were I don't *have* to do anything or keep any sort of time schedule are just simply wonderful. I enjoy events and heading home, but both usually involve a lot of driving, or keeping to at least an arrival time, or both.
Spent lots of time this weekend in the hot tub with Max and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anna_mickel, where we solved the world's problems (and possibly caused some more), and tried to soak winter away. Nearly succeeded. Got rid of most of a cold that had threatened to make me miserable on Friday, anyway. Reduced to mere sniffles. HA!
Hoodlum was being wonderfully cooperative yesterday morning, and I shot him. Many times. With my camera. What a beautiful kitteh.
We never made it to Von Huene in Boston yesterday, got a late start. This was kinda OK, though, because I forgot my recorder at home, and most of the group that was musically-oriented was home with the plague (in form of a nasty head cold).
Instead, the doodlebug took us through the winding streets of Boston to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. None of us had been there before, and what a treat. Got there in time for the 'chat with the gardener', and I got to talk to her about all the wonderful, wonderful plants growing inside the huge indoor courtyard. Amazing. I know what I'm looking for in a home, now... :) All the medieval artifacts and paintings and furniture were pretty cool, though the lack of identifying labels on most of it and overly-twitchy museum guards got a bit wearing by the end.
All in all, a wonderful trip. I am still kicking myself for not even *asking* the head gardener if I could sneak a photo of some of the lady slippers they had blooming, but the signs everywhere saying 'NO PHOTOS OF THE ARTIFACTS OR COURTYARD (which has artifacts in it...). WE WILL SHOOT YOU FOR REAL" kinda made me think why bother... gah. They were beautiful. And about to be stuffed back in the greenhouse, where nobody could appreciate them... so why not let me have a photo? (because if they let me, everybody'll want one, bla bla bla...) Oh well.
Headed out shortly to make my yearly appearance at Maine Indoor Karting, for a mini-motard practice. Hopefullykurlon will come home in one piece...
Spent lots of time this weekend in the hot tub with Max and
anna_mickel, where we solved the world's problems (and possibly caused some more), and tried to soak winter away. Nearly succeeded. Got rid of most of a cold that had threatened to make me miserable on Friday, anyway. Reduced to mere sniffles. HA!Hoodlum was being wonderfully cooperative yesterday morning, and I shot him. Many times. With my camera. What a beautiful kitteh.
We never made it to Von Huene in Boston yesterday, got a late start. This was kinda OK, though, because I forgot my recorder at home, and most of the group that was musically-oriented was home with the plague (in form of a nasty head cold).
Instead, the doodlebug took us through the winding streets of Boston to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. None of us had been there before, and what a treat. Got there in time for the 'chat with the gardener', and I got to talk to her about all the wonderful, wonderful plants growing inside the huge indoor courtyard. Amazing. I know what I'm looking for in a home, now... :) All the medieval artifacts and paintings and furniture were pretty cool, though the lack of identifying labels on most of it and overly-twitchy museum guards got a bit wearing by the end.
All in all, a wonderful trip. I am still kicking myself for not even *asking* the head gardener if I could sneak a photo of some of the lady slippers they had blooming, but the signs everywhere saying 'NO PHOTOS OF THE ARTIFACTS OR COURTYARD (which has artifacts in it...). WE WILL SHOOT YOU FOR REAL" kinda made me think why bother... gah. They were beautiful. And about to be stuffed back in the greenhouse, where nobody could appreciate them... so why not let me have a photo? (because if they let me, everybody'll want one, bla bla bla...) Oh well.
Headed out shortly to make my yearly appearance at Maine Indoor Karting, for a mini-motard practice. Hopefully
kurlon will come home in one piece...