I can also tell you that, on these journeys, Mr Dearling drives. Every mile, every hour, every inch. I passeng. I also read, knit or sleep. It is not lost on me that this is yet another blessing I have in Mr Dearling: he likes to drive, for one; also he reads maps the way some folks read romance novels. (More to the point, he understands them. I am strictly a "turn right at the tree that looks like a possum and go until you find that building that used to be a gas station, back when the Olsen farm still had all them cows" kinda girl.)
You'll notice that he does have help from Earnest-the-dashboard-dog. Earnest is not just another pretty face, he's a working dog - it's his job to hold onto those little cards you get in a parking garage, because if you lose that little card you have to pay as though you'd been there for twelve hours. Which is a LOT of money.
I have to say, my intention was to write the day's events every evening, being as the house we all stayed it did in fact have WiFi. And surely you may have noticed...that did not happen. Why not, Dale-Harriet? Are you
So these words are being written from my bed in a Super 8 in the vicinity of Cleveland, OH and I will sort my notes, tidy up my pictures, and recount the high points of a very pleasant Time Away for y'all. Some thoughts to ponder while you wait:
Walnuts and dried cranberries are GOOD (and no doubt healthy as all get-out, from a "at my age I'm supposed to get a lot of fiber" viewpoint).
Our family members are patient, and didn't complain when we hung around Fort Carillon for what must have seemed like nine hours. (It was actually something over two hours - oh, and for those of you of the British History persuasion, that's "Fort Ticonderoga" to you.)
It is possible to spend five days with eleven people ALMOST "24/7" and enjoy all of their company all of the time.
Price Choppers are good grocery stores.
Mr Dearling (and sisters) (and helpful friends) make terrific gnocchi. By hand. From scratch. And if you ever want to taste better you're going to have to wait until you get to heaven, because their grandma's was reputedly better. Speaking as a nice little Jewish girl from Minot, North Dakota - you're not likely to find better gnocchi on this side of the Great Beyond, so fuhgettaboutit.
Visiting yarn shops randomly across the country is as much fun as I thought it would be. "Details at 11:00".
The gods really ARE skeptical about my visiting Ste Marie among the Iroquois; after three times going only to find it closed, today we actually made it! And it was genuinely cold with a very stiff wind, and we couldn't stay in the outside Mission site very long at all. (But the inside museum part was great and I got some fabulous pictures - digital cameras don't care if it IS cold and windy.)
And lastly: I do most earnestly and sincerely wish we had a Wegman's grocery store out by us. I most earnestly and sincerely do wish that. I even got some Paul Newman wintergreen mints in a tin with a polar bear on it. I am not making that up.
This is a RED trillium (!) as seen by Mr Dearling on a hike on Hadley Mountain.
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When my husband and I were house-hunting five years ago, we ended up looking at an area farther from the city than we originally wanted to (because we couldn't afford anything closer to the city that had was larger than a postage stamp). We weren't keen on the idea, and our realtor, trying to cheer us up, said, "There's even a WEGMAN'S out there" (in which the name of the store is uttered in reverential tones). We'd never heard of the place before, but after one evening of looking at houses we decided to stop in Wegman's before driving back to our apartment.
It was like finding the biggest, best yarn shop in the world. But with groceries. :)
So yeah, I know what you're saying. And I'm familiar with those Paul Newman's mints you mentioned--and I know exactly where they are in my local Wegman's. Heh.
I need me an Ernest-the-dashboard-dog. He is a cutie.
I'm so glad you had a good trip.
I LOVE that my husband enjoys driving on long trips. I like to drive, but not as much as I like to knit.
I'm so glad you guys are having a nice trip. But I'll be glad when you're home too. I missed you!
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