7.13.2009

Sharon's house for talk about the Omega farm.

Over @ Sharon’s to talk about the Omega farm. Farm farm farm.

7.12.2009

The general photo-a-day rule is one per day, but I’m breaking it with three from Aaron’s wedding:

Aaron & Nicole circling each other during the ceremony.

Nicole aloft in a chair. They kept her in the air longer than Aaron!

Dancing was on the stage of the old theater. Nice venue.

Aaron & Nicole win! It was a great wedding & great weekend all around. Got married in the Hudson Theater, an old Broadway theater now attached to a hotel.

All the male guests got colorful crocheted yarmulkes (made by a Mayan crocheting collective, I think). The ceremony was lovely and the dancing music was great. It was a fun, fun weekend. Nice job, guys!

7.11.2009

Aaron & Nicole at pre-wedding dinner.

Wedding festivities, night two!

Aaron’s family organized a dinner for out-of-town guests tonight at the Landmark Tavern on, I think, 46th & 11th. It was great! Aaron’s relatives put on skits & did readings on the topic of marriage. It was quite nice.

We went out to a place called the Pony bar afterwords in the same general part of town. They had a great selection of beers. Bruce, Eoin & I considered walking over the Brooklyn bridge to wrap up the evening, but it was raining and I’d have had to get back to mid-Manhattan to get to my hotel anyway, so I declined.

Nice day all around.

7.10.2009

Joe!

Joe! in Times Square. Got into town for Aaron’s wedding tonight.

Noah arranged trivia about the couple at a bar in southeast Manhattan (I don’t know the name of the neighborhood – somewhere around Houston, I think. Soho? Dunno.) Noah does professional trivia & has a great sparkle-laden triva jacket he wears when he hosts. Snappy.

I stayed at the Gershwin Hotel in their dorm-style youth hostel. When I got in there were three drunk brits (two guys traveling together & one woman traveling alone), and a drinking-but-not-drunk woman from Germany and a guy from Mexico who learned English in London and was going to school in Paris (he had a weird accent). Later two Dutch sisters and a French woman arrived.

The British woman was trying to finish a bottle of Brandy she had, and gave me a couple of Brandys mixed with diet coke. I had planned to go to sleep early, but had a good time chatting with the Brits for a while. One of the British guys (named Josh), passed out in the British woman’s bunk and started puking in a waste-bin. Kind of like college 🙂 (Fortunately he was in the other room & I couldn’t smell it from where I was, so it was only amusing and not a hassle for me. The woman whose bed he passed out in took it in stride and chose another bunk. The puking seemed to do him good, because he didn’t have a hangover in the morning, whereas his traveling buddy complained of a headache.)

7.9.2009

Omega office.

Went over to Omega tonight to look at finances for the farm with Sharon.

This room used to be a mud room / mess. I cleaned it out five or six years ago & put a desk & computer in there. Nice to see it’s stayed useful.

7.8.2009

Plants?

Today I came home to a batch of beautiful tomato plants and some nice flowers on my porch. No idea where they came from.

When I walked inside, Wyatt said the neighbor had dropped by earlier with a bale of straw that she thought was mine. Apparently it had gone on parade and ended up in her yard. No idea how.

A day full of mysteries.

7.7.2009

Built a little bit of fence tonight.

Finally got in a little bit of fence tonight. Plan is to keep Ollie inside the yard, but away from the mailman.