More Items for this Week

Just received more than my usual share of late notifications about events this week.  There’s a Sling Babies gathering on Wednesday morning, open pottery at Albany Art Room on Thursday afternoon, a Family Dance at the Bach Branch Thursday evening.  For details, see the updates on my This Week post.

Hoffman’s Playland

Someone helpfully shared on the Facebook page that it’s Heroes Week at The Great Escape in Lake George.  That means that, through Sunday, “all military personnel, teachers, police officers, fire department, nurses and EMS personnel will receive free admission to The Great Escape when they how occupational identification at our main gate”.   Plus, the folks … [Read more…]

Packing, Linking

Cute W and the girls are leaving o-dark-early (as a friend in the reserves used to say) in the morning to visit Grandma & Grandpa in Kansas City.  I’ll stay home.  Alone.  And, no:  this doesn’t mean that we don’t all get along.  It’s just that plane tickets are expensive.  It was W’s idea, and … [Read more…]

This Week

Nights are getting cooler and events are already beginning to wind down, but there’s still plenty to do: All Week: The Wiz will play at 5:30 pm from Tuesday to Sunday at the Washington Park Playhouse in Albany.    Meanwhile, Annie Get Your Gun continues Tuesday through Sunday at 8 pm.  The last day for these … [Read more…]

Our Trip to the Lake

We spent a week at a house on a lake near Lake Placid, and it was practically by accident.  We’d bid on this item with friends at a silent auction because 1) it was super-cheap, 2) proceeds went to our church, and 3) W had been to the area and said that it was nice.   … [Read more…]

The (Tardy) Weekend Post

I’m home! More on the trip later.  I’m sitting at the town pool like a complete loser, typing on the computer with a towel draped over my head.  I was so excited when they started offering WIFI at the pool, but it hadn’t occurred to me that the bright, beautiful sun would make looking at … [Read more…]

Pickles

If you’re growing cucumbers in your garden, you’re probably overwhelmed right now.  We are.   But that means one of W’s favorite projects:  homemade pickles!  If you’d like to try it and don’t have any, buy some cucumbers at your local farmer’s market, but ask for pickling cucumbers specifically.  One year we tried another variety and … [Read more…]