In the big city
When the stars align, Mark and I like to try
to make our day in the big city as busy as possible so that we don't
have to go back for several weeks. Today was that day --- I met
with an elected representative and sold some grape vines while Mark
recorded some voices for a video he's working on.
Once our work was done, we met back up on the street where my mother,
brother, and sister live for a bit of old fashioned
entertainment. Mom and Maggie had accumulated 31 bags of leaves
before the trash folks could get them --- I'd begged and pleaded that
they grab some for me to compost in lieu of a Christmas present this
year. We were only able to stuff about 25 bags in the minivan, so
we'll have to come back to get another load on our next town
trip. I haven't anticipated a Christmas present with such
prolonged excitement since I was in grade school!
After Mark cleaned out
Mom's gutters, Joey invited us up the street to try out a new European
board game. For those of you who were raised on American games
like Monopoly and Shoots and Ladders, let me be the first to tell you
that board games can make for a really entertaining adult
gathering. I like middle-of-the-road games like Settlers
of Catan which have enough challenging strategy to keep you coming
back for dozens of games but which don't take more than an hour or so
to play. The new game --- Carcassonne:
The Discovery --- met all of my criteria and I actually happily
stayed in town after dark to play. Looks like I've found a new
favorite game!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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