Gloucester Wedding

This past weekend Christopher and I went to a beautiful outdoor wedding in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Since Hurricane Bill was scheduled to pass through the area, we were worried about the fate of their ceremony. As luck would have it, the main portion of the storm passed while out at sea and never came inland, so the ceremony was able to proceed outside as planned and the guests treated the some amazing white caps and crashing waves.

Brooklyn Wildlife

While out for dinner in Park Slope last night we came across some cute wildlife in the city:

So cute!

Dunder Mifflin & Architectural Salvage

This past weekend we made a trip to Scranton, PA. The main objective of our adventure was to pick up an old 5-panel door from an architectural salvage warehouse. But a close second was to check out the home of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

Architectural salvage... basically this is a fancy way of saying building supply junkyard. It was our first time. We were completely & utterly overwhelmed by:

1. the volume of *stuff* they had
2. the way that everything was sort of organized, yet still seemed like a mess
3. the variety interesting things in the inventory - there were from a HUGE marble mantle-type thing at least 15ft tall and must have weighed a TON, to a real boar's head

Scranton... as avid watchers of The Office I have to admit that the town is pretty much exactly how they portray it in the show. To me the town had the feeling of a modern day ghost town. In the 1900s Scranton was a booming iron ore and coal mining town, but that is long gone and without an industry to replace it.

You can't really blame them for trying to take advantage of The Office popularity. We saw signs for a $35 "The Office" walking tour which takes you to locations referenced in the show. While wandering around the downtown we walked to the Radisson Lackawana Station Hotel. This is the location where Dwight gave his Salesman of the Year speech. While that episode was really funny, the hotel was, well - just a hotel.

Needles

Over the past 3 weeks I have been receiving physical therapy for tendinitis that developed in my right wrist. I'm not sure what brought it on, but it either had to do with my new workstation in my home office, or mowing the lawn. Christopher is usually responsible for cutting the grass, but since we had been spending our weekends away from home for the past month and a half, I have been filling in.

Today at my session my doctor suggested we try a round of acupuncture in addition to the electrode and ultrasound treatments I was receiving. We only did 3 points and the first two I didn't even feel as she put them in. The 3rd one felt like a tiny pin prick, but when the needles came out there wasn't any blood or anything.

Evening Dog Walk

One thing about working from my home office is that it makes me really want to get out of the house at the end of the day. Not leaving the house to commute to an office, if I haven't gone outside all day I feel rather cagey by the evening. Sometime I have time around lunchtime to take Tyson for a errand-walk to the center of town, to do some banking, drop off/pick up a book from the library, etc.

But other days when I'm too busy to get away during the workday after I'm finished working I need to leave the house to just de-compress and relax. That way, when I come back home I can enjoy my evening. Today was one of those days, so after work I grabbed Tyson's leash and we headed over to the Reservoir #6 just around the corner from our house. There is a 3.7 mile trail around the perimeter of the reservoir and it was so beautiful and serene, the perfect way to finish my day.

Here are some pics from our walk that I snapped with my Blackberry:

These ducks hopped into the water and swam off as soon as we got close to them. They had no intention of being Tyson's dinner! He was watched them intently as they paddled away.

Blog-Block

I've been shamefully neglecting my blog for the past 4 months. Not that I post very often, but after I skip a few weeks of updates then it just seems to become an insurmountable task to go back and update it with all the things that have happened since my last update. But this means it gets more and more out of date.

So I've decided to just skip ahead to today and post about current events, and hopefully this will motivate me to fill in the gaps. My apologies to my faithful readers (all 3 of them - lol) for my hiatus. Be sure to check out my older posts to find out what we've been up to since April :)