brattleboro, vt

A couple weekends ago D and I took an overnight trip to Brattleboro Vermont  to celebrate our five year anniversary!  It was incredibly nice and tons of fun, but you'll just have to trust me on that because I only took one picture while we were there!  Alas, I will never be a serious blogger because I can't be bothered to stop what I'm doing to document it.  I don't think this is a bad thing though.

Anyway, we stayed at the Latchis Hotel which was beautiful even though they're in the middle of renovating their Main Theater.  We didn't see any shows while we were there but plan to go back for a day trip some time soon!  However we did walk around town a bit: D scoped out Brattleboro Books while I spent far too much time in Twice Upon a Time!

Instead of pictures of beautiful Vermont I hope you'll be content with a couple of "things on my kitchen table" pictures.  On our way out of town we stumbled upon the Brattleboro Farmer's Market, then stopped for souvenir yarn at Knit or Dye.  Wow is that a nice farmer's market!  We brought home cheese and some amazing cider.  I couldn't even get a picture of the cider before we drank it!

No post would be complete without yarn so here is the skein that I picked up from Knit or Dye!  It is 4oz of DK kettle dyed yarn from The Spun Monkey, and is much prettier and much richer in person.  I'm pretty sure it will become a hat this winter, even though red is one of my difficult colors. 

Brattleboro definitely gets the seal of approval from me, which means an awful lot since I win the award for world's biggest home body!

new england aquarium

Last week I mentioned that D and I visited the New England Aquarium and I thought that I might share some of the few pictures I took while we were wandering around.  We went on a Saturday and it was busy, busy, busy with families but still and awful lot of fun!  I grew up next to the ocean and love any chance to learn more about sea life!

The big tank in the aquarium was closed when we tried to visit in November but reopened last month!  It really is incredible.

I wish there was a reference point in the picture or the next, this is the BIG seal in the seal tank.  It's HUGE!!!  There are four or five more little seals swimming around playing with toys and then this behemoth would come up for air!

kitten

I took a few days off of work to go home to Cape Cod for my birthday. I had all these grand plans to take nice pictures of me turning a glorious twenty two, but the only pictures I ended up taking were of my friend's new puppy, Diesel.


Diesel is a 3/4 pit bull 1/4 lab mix that my friend rescued from rural Kentucky while at a workshop. She is the cutest dog, and contrary to what many people say, pit bulls and pit bull mixes are super sweet dogs. When they're treated poorly they grow up mean, just like any other dog. If you're looking to adopt I really, really would encourage you to look into getting a pit bull. There are so many good dogs who need homes and as pit bulls they're usually only given a few days in a shelter before they get put down.

Now that I've got that out of the way, I can show you more cute pictures.


This was Diesel's first trip to the beach. She is really unsure about going in the water even though she has perfect lab webbed feet. Though we did get her in up to her puppy knees that day.

I got to spend my birthday hanging out with these cuties

I'm partial to the name Kitten (or Amelia Junior), so that's what I've been calling her. Not that there's anything wrong with the name Diesel, and not that I haven't also been calling her Diesel, I just call her Kitten more.

She caught and ate a dragonfly at my mom's house. You can see it in her mouth.

That's pretty much what my birthday looked like. It was wonderful.