In a cereal bowl combine one handful each of nestle dark chocolate and semisweet chocolate chips. Throw a pinch of salt in there. In a little frying pan put two handfuls of chopped walnuts and one hand of rolled oats (please keep in mind that I have preternaturally small hand, they’re almost creepy in their smallness, creepy tiny hands). Heat oats and walnuts
to goodly toastiness and then dump into the bowl of chocolate chips. Stir and mash and stir and mash, you don’t want any visible chocolate chips. At this point you will realize that a cereal bowl is too small and you will have wished you’d gone with something bigger. If you are lucky and maybe if you have regular hands, you will have already figured this out and gone with a bigger bowl at the beginning of the deal.
Stir and mash stir and mash and then unceremoniously (yes, without ceremony! This isn’t bocuse d’or, it’s a damned hurricane!) dump it out on a dinner plate and sort of mash it down and clump into pieces. Wait for it to solid up. Check the weather report. Eat some.
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We do the things for all to see
My hair is orange and pink
yeah, orange and pink
Chester in the Chester Town Forest with a big piece of Chesterite
Autumn in Vermont
We went to see the colors.
and the other beautiful places
I made a hardcore pillow cover…YAAAARGH
the dogs are still dorks
David made an elaborate number 2 (heeerrrrrf snork I said number 2)
I…um…
well…
yeah
Still alive… maybe
We still don’t have internet at home, which is actually kind of nice. We have to find other ways to entertain ourselves and going to the bakery to be able to connect means I get to eat pastries! Perfect.
Chester, VT is still amazingly cute and also awesome. We’ve gone on little road trips and poked around Grafton and Springfield (where we ate a hot dog and some convenience-store-hot-roller taquito thing in the parking lot and watched the trucks bumble around) and did a goodly 2 mile hike.
What else?
Soon, Chester will tell you a thing!
The thing that is true is
I live in a new state for the first time in my life.
Dang!
So what happened on our drive to Vermont? Well, we ate lunch at a picnic table near the dumpster at a Bob Evans. I had a screaming meltdown in the parking lot of a Days Inn next to the Toledo airport. I learned to drive a stick shift in Chicago, in Chicago traffic, during a Chicago rain storm. It was like Lake Michigan belched its whole self up into the sky and fell in great pleated sheets on us. I ate a lot of peanut m&ms. Chester didn’t puke.
It is obnoxiously bucolic here. It’s almost as if nature hired Disney to make this place all beautiful and Vermonty. The trees are just starting to change and it is amazing to watch. We live in a little town, a little cute rural town with a little bit of tourism and a lot of very cute everything!
Our truck had a squid
We live in a big, jumbly house. One part was built in the late 1700s and has been added on to so many times over the years. It’s all doors and stairs and halls. Our apartment is little but it’s cheap and we rented a storage space for most of our stuff.
Right out the front door (too bad about the power lines, it’s actually really awesome)
Obligatory pre-move-in apartment photos
Maddie
Obligatory moved-in-but-not-unpacked photos
Dogs in Nature
I live by this
We’re getting our plan together. I’ve started collecting resources and making lists of things we need to learn, we’ll spend the winter doing that. We’re also taking advantage of our (intentional) no-job situation and using that time to go out and explore. There’s a lot of hiking and investigating to be done. Mostly, right now we are tired, though.
There should be internet set up in our place this weekend, but I’m super loving the internet-accessing bakery up the road (because what I need in my life is more pastry).
Goodbye Goodbye
So so busy packing and moving and packing and trying to make dinner when the only things you have in your kitchen are a bottle opener and a tub of coffee beans.
There were 2 going away parties this past weekend and they were wonderful and sad. There are lots of photos and lots to tell but I don’t have time! So, here’s a quick and dirty and unlabeled set of photos.
Also, Viivi…
