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Yesterday was 100% grading and insect care and getting home late after a paltry office supper. Let's not speak of yesterday any longer.
Today, by contrast, I decided I would be FREEEEEEEEEEEEE to do whatever I felt like doing! Well, as long as I got in some erg meters for the Holiday Challenge.
So I got up and went to rowing practice, enjoyed the post-practice coffee with teammates, then set out towards the Troy Farmer's Market. I had a brief detour when I passed the boathouse: the tide was low, and my teammate E was rather keen to use the opportunity to search for a seat that fell out of one of our boats when it flipped a couple weeks ago, just off the dock. So I pulled out my kayak and briefly went hunting for it. I did spy 2 cinderblocks, and finally figured out that a creepy/ominous object sometimes encountered at lower tides was a half-submerged plastic traffic barrel. But no sign of the seat. I suspect it was swept downriver and also buried in the (extremely disgusting) sediment. It was very tempting to stay out on the river and just kayak all day, but the market beckoned.
It was a beautiful, sunny day - the temperature got up into the 50's. I have come to realize that I love biking along the river in these conditions, because when the leaves are off the trees you can actually see the river while riding. I mean, the path is nice when everything is green, it's just nice in a different way when the trees are bare.
In Troy, I visited another coffeeshop called Jacob Alejandro, for one final coffeeneuring bonus trip:
The pastry was a savory apple-cheddar scone; delicious. It's a little silly, how many nice spots there are to go and get coffee in Troy. Better than NO spots to get good coffee, I suppose.
There weren't all that many farmers selling produce at the market, so the only produce I bought was a couple heads of garlic. I am always glad to get milk from Battenkill Dairy, though, and bread from one of the bakeries, and Battenkill even had eggnog this week. I have decided that this is a good year to try out all of the 3 various eggnogs for sale at the co-op, so I was delighted to extend my testing efforts to this fourth variety from Battenkill. I'll say more once I've finished all of my taste testing; I'm not there yet.
And then, to the hardware store, for lights to replace those early-generation LED horrors. I found something that will work, and of course while I was in the hardware store I found another tempting shiny object that I simply couldn't resist:
I have to admit I'm kind of surprised these aren't multicolored. But on the other hand, it's also a little strange to have the lights *inside* of the disco balls. So whatever.
Today, by contrast, I decided I would be FREEEEEEEEEEEEE to do whatever I felt like doing! Well, as long as I got in some erg meters for the Holiday Challenge.
So I got up and went to rowing practice, enjoyed the post-practice coffee with teammates, then set out towards the Troy Farmer's Market. I had a brief detour when I passed the boathouse: the tide was low, and my teammate E was rather keen to use the opportunity to search for a seat that fell out of one of our boats when it flipped a couple weeks ago, just off the dock. So I pulled out my kayak and briefly went hunting for it. I did spy 2 cinderblocks, and finally figured out that a creepy/ominous object sometimes encountered at lower tides was a half-submerged plastic traffic barrel. But no sign of the seat. I suspect it was swept downriver and also buried in the (extremely disgusting) sediment. It was very tempting to stay out on the river and just kayak all day, but the market beckoned.
It was a beautiful, sunny day - the temperature got up into the 50's. I have come to realize that I love biking along the river in these conditions, because when the leaves are off the trees you can actually see the river while riding. I mean, the path is nice when everything is green, it's just nice in a different way when the trees are bare.
In Troy, I visited another coffeeshop called Jacob Alejandro, for one final coffeeneuring bonus trip:
The pastry was a savory apple-cheddar scone; delicious. It's a little silly, how many nice spots there are to go and get coffee in Troy. Better than NO spots to get good coffee, I suppose.
There weren't all that many farmers selling produce at the market, so the only produce I bought was a couple heads of garlic. I am always glad to get milk from Battenkill Dairy, though, and bread from one of the bakeries, and Battenkill even had eggnog this week. I have decided that this is a good year to try out all of the 3 various eggnogs for sale at the co-op, so I was delighted to extend my testing efforts to this fourth variety from Battenkill. I'll say more once I've finished all of my taste testing; I'm not there yet.
And then, to the hardware store, for lights to replace those early-generation LED horrors. I found something that will work, and of course while I was in the hardware store I found another tempting shiny object that I simply couldn't resist:
I have to admit I'm kind of surprised these aren't multicolored. But on the other hand, it's also a little strange to have the lights *inside* of the disco balls. So whatever.
