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Thoughts in an Airport
We're at the tailend of our visit with my parents, a little early in the first of three airports for our return journey. Be it here known that BWI has free wifi. Don't say I didn't tell you.
We stopped first in VA to visit Doug and her house and her family's farm, both to actually see where she lives for once and also get a feel for the land around and within the Shenadoah Valley. Verdict: yes. Even cloudy and spitting rain, the area is rolling and tree-filled and beautiful. I'm especially sold on Charlottesville, with its quaintness and bricks and coffee and big, towering trees. But of course, things are not solely dependent on what I find Nice and Wonderful, but where we can find both a) a srs job for Lady and b) a farm.
Doug took us shooting and arching, too, and if it weren't for the rain, we would have had a giant bonfire out on her farm. Instead we visited her friend who's basically doing what we want to do - she has a house in which she lives rent-free in exchange for fixing it up for the owners and keeping it from completely collapsing and chickens and a garden and a field and pigs and several other people who've slowly congregated on the land and held up as needed. We had cider & bread & cabbage slaw & soup and it was all things she'd made or grown on the property. I just. Yeah.
I have photos in regards to the creative pumpkin carving we did, so I'll make a separate post about that. :P
Then we left Doug behind and drove across VA to MD to visit my parents. It continued to spit rain and wind at us, so we mostly stayed inside and made pie and drank tea and chatted. It was very low key and good - even though I talk with mom every week on the phone, I feel like I can have a better conversation with her in person and really get up to speed on how things are going with life and the rest of the family. I wish I could see them more often than once a year, but I'm also glad I don't live in the same town as them. It'll be interesting to see where we all end up in the next few years, since they're planning on moving and we're planning on moving...
One last thing: Lady is officially dad's favorite daughter because she managed to shoot a groundhog that was running across the yard. He just wouldn't stop talking about it and I imagine it'll be his new favorite conversational piece. :P I haven't seen him that excited in a while. Next time we'll have to make a proper groundhog stew.
We stopped first in VA to visit Doug and her house and her family's farm, both to actually see where she lives for once and also get a feel for the land around and within the Shenadoah Valley. Verdict: yes. Even cloudy and spitting rain, the area is rolling and tree-filled and beautiful. I'm especially sold on Charlottesville, with its quaintness and bricks and coffee and big, towering trees. But of course, things are not solely dependent on what I find Nice and Wonderful, but where we can find both a) a srs job for Lady and b) a farm.
Doug took us shooting and arching, too, and if it weren't for the rain, we would have had a giant bonfire out on her farm. Instead we visited her friend who's basically doing what we want to do - she has a house in which she lives rent-free in exchange for fixing it up for the owners and keeping it from completely collapsing and chickens and a garden and a field and pigs and several other people who've slowly congregated on the land and held up as needed. We had cider & bread & cabbage slaw & soup and it was all things she'd made or grown on the property. I just. Yeah.
I have photos in regards to the creative pumpkin carving we did, so I'll make a separate post about that. :P
Then we left Doug behind and drove across VA to MD to visit my parents. It continued to spit rain and wind at us, so we mostly stayed inside and made pie and drank tea and chatted. It was very low key and good - even though I talk with mom every week on the phone, I feel like I can have a better conversation with her in person and really get up to speed on how things are going with life and the rest of the family. I wish I could see them more often than once a year, but I'm also glad I don't live in the same town as them. It'll be interesting to see where we all end up in the next few years, since they're planning on moving and we're planning on moving...
One last thing: Lady is officially dad's favorite daughter because she managed to shoot a groundhog that was running across the yard. He just wouldn't stop talking about it and I imagine it'll be his new favorite conversational piece. :P I haven't seen him that excited in a while. Next time we'll have to make a proper groundhog stew.