Hello everyone! It's been a long week for me. I hope everyone enjoyed our special guest blogger! I know Adam enjoying doing a post and I have heard from a few of you asking for regular updates from the Brit. (Thanks a lot!) It is funny getting his perspective on things and a bit of a sanity check for me.
I have been traveling a bit the past two weeks. I have been to DC twice using all sorts of transportation. Needless to say I have been on planes, trains, and autos a lot in the past 7 days. I am currently...you guessed it...on the train!
DC is a great town so I shouldn't complain. I could be in Oklahoma City or Indy or something. No offense to people that live in those cities. We are staying at the W which is right across from the White House. I forget how beautiful DC is and then I go for a business trip and I get excited to be there. A big difference with NY is that DC is quite sleepy at night. I go to dinner at 8:30 or 9 and places are empty. Again no complaints, nice to be able to sit without waiting an hour at a great restaurant. If anyone has any suggestions let me know.
Adam will be traveling next week to San Francisco, so it makes me feel a little better that he won't be home alone all week.
Adam and I plan on heading for a long hike this weekend at the Ward Pound Ridge. This will be our first adventure there. I also hope to clean the house a bit (boo!) and use the grill a bit this weekend. Eating out all week makes me want to cook! I will post some pictures from the Ward this this weekend or next week. I won't make any promises.
Have a great weekend!
XOXO
Friday, July 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Who needs water anyway? Special Guest Blogger Adam Denny
First, maybe last (lets see what the boss says) of my blogs. Its been bouncing between 95f and 100f last few days, grass has gone from green to a sad yellow/orange, the hydrangea is dehydrating, even the squirrels have sunstroke. Luckily we had the Culligan chaps round to fit a flash new water system, luckily they spent 7 hours
installing it yesterday and luckily they managed to bollox it up. So no water! Apparently the nob-end plumber is coming round in 1 hour to fix it so a shower is in sight. Mari is talking at I type and reading this weeks Time Out 3D edition "Adam our house is kind of 3D" ..yes Mari it is.
As Mari mentioned we had a brilliant 11.5 days with my mum and dad visiting, most of the time was spend in the garden (although we did shop in Manhattan, wine taste in the North Fork of LI, watch footie in Greenwich and drive passed Stamford (through necessity, what a eye sore of a pit Stamford city centre is, 'oh yes, lets pop in quick mart deli for lunch', behave please).
So the photos below, most are in the garden. Please note the father and son effort at chopping down a dead tree using an axe (very much in the style of The Waltons). this quick job took over 4 hours over 2 days and only accomplished creating a area of extremely danger. The tree is now leaning only held by a neighboring tree. Once it eventually falls (hopefully missing the house, car and us) I'll send it over to dad as a kinda thank you gift ;P
Ok, still no nob-end plumber, time to use the car's window wiper spray as a make shift angle shower.
Laters
installing it yesterday and luckily they managed to bollox it up. So no water! Apparently the nob-end plumber is coming round in 1 hour to fix it so a shower is in sight. Mari is talking at I type and reading this weeks Time Out 3D edition "Adam our house is kind of 3D" ..yes Mari it is.
As Mari mentioned we had a brilliant 11.5 days with my mum and dad visiting, most of the time was spend in the garden (although we did shop in Manhattan, wine taste in the North Fork of LI, watch footie in Greenwich and drive passed Stamford (through necessity, what a eye sore of a pit Stamford city centre is, 'oh yes, lets pop in quick mart deli for lunch', behave please).
So the photos below, most are in the garden. Please note the father and son effort at chopping down a dead tree using an axe (very much in the style of The Waltons). this quick job took over 4 hours over 2 days and only accomplished creating a area of extremely danger. The tree is now leaning only held by a neighboring tree. Once it eventually falls (hopefully missing the house, car and us) I'll send it over to dad as a kinda thank you gift ;P
Ok, still no nob-end plumber, time to use the car's window wiper spray as a make shift angle shower.
Laters
July.... that was fast!
Hello! I am back from a very long break. I hope our not too exciting adventures were not missed much. We have been very busy all summer with travels and visitors but it looks like things should be quiet for a few weeks (I am sure this will change). It has also been so hot the past few days that my internet at home has not been working. It was 104 in Pound Ridge yesterday which is CRAZY! I have never been this hot.
We had Gill and Colin (Adam's parents) stay with us for about 2 weeks, they went back to the UK yesterday and will be missed. I can't believe they handled the weather so well with the lack of proper AC in our house. It was fantastic having them over, we all had a great time and got so much done around the farm. In the past 2 weeks we (Adam and Colin) have been able to remove a lot of useless trees and bushes from our property as well as planting lovely new flowers and vegetables. The garden looks so much better now we just need to maintain it. I will post pictures tomorrow and I believe Adam will be writing a ("Special Edition" lol!) post too.
Gill and Colin also bought us a lovely grill (picture coming tomorrow) that we used a ton while they were here. It is much better cooking outdoors when it is this hot. It is a Weber Genesis and it is amazing. It is so easy to cook when you have a great grill. I wish I would have known this earlier in life.
I am almost at Grand Central but I will let Adam blog about the Denny visit. All I can say is that the Gill and Colin know more of our neighbors than we do and they are famous at the Northstar too!
We had Gill and Colin (Adam's parents) stay with us for about 2 weeks, they went back to the UK yesterday and will be missed. I can't believe they handled the weather so well with the lack of proper AC in our house. It was fantastic having them over, we all had a great time and got so much done around the farm. In the past 2 weeks we (Adam and Colin) have been able to remove a lot of useless trees and bushes from our property as well as planting lovely new flowers and vegetables. The garden looks so much better now we just need to maintain it. I will post pictures tomorrow and I believe Adam will be writing a ("Special Edition" lol!) post too.
Gill and Colin also bought us a lovely grill (picture coming tomorrow) that we used a ton while they were here. It is much better cooking outdoors when it is this hot. It is a Weber Genesis and it is amazing. It is so easy to cook when you have a great grill. I wish I would have known this earlier in life.
I am almost at Grand Central but I will let Adam blog about the Denny visit. All I can say is that the Gill and Colin know more of our neighbors than we do and they are famous at the Northstar too!
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