I left the big city and headed to the country for a few days of caretaking and R&R. Good conversations, beautiful views, fresh air, sunshine, and some serious slothing.
A few days in the country
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Monthly Archives: October 2025
Hofstra Family Weekend
I spent a few days with Miss E at Hofstra’s Family Weekend. We had lots of fun. Hofstra has such a beautiful campus, and fun mascots.
Hofstra has an Arboretum on campus with fun, unique trees and plants. They also have tons of statues on campus! I enjoyed exploring and seeing E’s favorite trees and statutes. <3
For all the lovely trees and greenery, Hofstra is actually in the suburbs, which also makes for some interesting photos.
Drought
We are in the middle of a drought. An extreme drought. Apparently it’s the driest August on record since 1895. It’s crazy because the rivers are soooo low, and some towns have water usage restrictions, but other towns do not. I learned it all depends on where towns get their water from. Apparently its different for each town. It’s also interesting crossing the bridge by Dartmouth each day and seeing the river nice and full (upstream of the dam) and ready for their crew teams.
When E was home a few weeks ago we took some pictures by the rivers (downstream from the dam!)
In the top photos you can see the footing (base? pylons? footers?) under the bridge, and river bed bottom. The bottom pictures are my sweetie doing her photography class homework. :)
Climate change sucks.
Gone, but not too far
There’s definitely not a lot of lonely time around here, despite the empty house. Last weekend Alan and I went down to WPI to watch Lex’s band performance. Joyce met us there. The game was awful, the sun was HOT, but the band was great! We had fun. Then we took Lex out to dinner at the Olive Garden, where he ate new food! LOL.
The next day Mema and G’Tom came to visit for a few days. We saw an AMAZING musical at Northern Stage, had brunch in a tasty diner, checked out the (very dry) gorge, and have a lovely time together.
A few days later, E came home for the weekend!! She flew into Burlington and Alan picked her up. She wanted a fall-fun weekend, so we’ve been watching Halloween movies, apple picking, pumpkin carving, and baking tasty goods.
Eve’s taking a photography course at school and she brought home a DSLR camera for the weekend. Her assignment is “lighting” so she’s been grabbing the camera for random shots. Of course, I had to take pictures of her taking pictures. I couldn’t resist. :) She’s heading back to school on Tuesday, and the boys are coming home on Friday! Whew! Who knew it would be so busy in my empty nest. LOL.