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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-08-22 10:14 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-08-22 10:14 pm
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A familiar drive.
Turns out I've maxed out my Photobucket account. Whoops! I deleted stuff until it was within allowed space, at least. TIME FOR NEW ONE.
I've been in Maine for the last few days at a camp owned by Aniko's family. My parents and the dog are still there, but Aniko, my brother, and I all came home today, due to prior commitments.
Pictures after the text.
My parents actually went up on Monday. My brother got home Sunday night, so they were able to give him a brief rundown of things, but then they forgot the bag with the dry dog food and all of his dog-pills. Oops. They phoned me Monday night to tell me to tell my brother, since they couldn't get him to answer at home, but the simple reason for that was he was out here visiting me.
Tuesday, I went to meet with the department manager at the store I'll hopefully be working in soon. They can only give me 15-19 hours a week for now which, even with VT's high minimum wage, won't be enough to cover everything, but 15 is better than zero, and they'll see about increasing my hours after I've been back for a few weeks.
We left Wednesday morning, and the drive out is basically identical to the one we took when I was attending a university in Maine, so I was having fun seeing everything again. We hit massive amounts of roadwork near the New Hampshire/Maine border, but we made good time and were at the camp by 2 in the afternoon. Hot day, nice lake... and I finally remember what I'd forgotten (because you always forget something): my swimsuit. Argh. Mom and Aniko's mother were running to the nearish town for some errands, and there were some shops around, so I tagged along and managed to find a top that didn't offend my sensibilities, and my mother had a pair of swimming shorts that she doesn't use but had brought along anyway (who knows why?), so... new suit. Sort of. We took the long way home to see a bunch of pretty scenery, and it was evening and time to start dinner by the time we got back, so Wednesday I mostly spent a lot of time in the car. Though! That night, we took one of the boats and (after removing the OMG GIANT SPIDER AUGH I nearly died) went out into the middle of the lake to look at the stars. So pretty!
Thursday I woke up at 10 (which means I slept for ten hours. What the hell?) and my brother was going to try water-skiing. Well, what the heck? I threw my makeshift suit on and joined everyone on the dock. My brother failed at water-skiing, though he gave it a good effort. I failed, too. But it was fun so who cares? And then my father showed us all up by getting up on his first try and skiing along for a ways. But he's done it before. CHEATER.
Also, my mother, who'd refused to go get in her swimsuit, fell in the lake while trying to direct the dog onto the ramp out. I laughed rather more than I probably should have.
Anyway, turns out water-skiing - or attempting to water-ski - is ridiculously hard work, so I was done in the water for a while. Whoo, rubber arms. But later that afternoon I went "noodling" with my mother and Aniko's mother and a bunch of other people I don't know. You put in flippers and take one of those ... swimming noodle things, and you kick around some area of the lake. We were stalked by a loon the whole way. Once, he even came right up close to us. We could see his red eyes watching us. It was really cool!
After all that swimming (we were out for something like an hour), I was tired, so I dried off and took a nap.... and then sat around and talked with my brother for a while, ate dinner, and then hung around and talked with people some more.
Friday morning, my mother and father went out so my mother could fish. She caught a bass or two, but she put everything she caught back. It was gloomy (and I slept ten hours again, ugh), but we went out "noodling" again, and, hey! There was the loon again! I wore my glasses this time, so I could see him really well. It started raining after only about half an hour, so we hurried back across and got out. Aniko and her mother had to go to meet her sisters, so they left after a bit. Shortly after they did, a massive storm arrived. We lost power about an hour, hour and a half into it, and there was a tornado warning for our exact location (warning apparently meaning the funnels were actually spotted). My family went out for dinner at a little place after the storm died down a bit, and after we got back, some other friends of Aniko's family had arrived (it was a big cabin), so we met them and hung around talking until Aniko and her mother got back, and shortly after that, most of us, since it was near midnight by then.
Today it was damp and a bit chilly, but too humid to actually be cold. I did not swim, because I did not want to ride home with damp hair. Everyone but Aniko sat around playing Spoons for a good part of the afternoon. If you have never played Spoons, you are missing out. It is fun. And also violent.
(Actually, it was pretty disappointing. All I ever saw Aniko do was sleep and sit in her room or on the couch reading. Though I hear she went out canoeing with my father and brother once.)
And the drive home was uneventful. Since it's a weekend, the road crews weren't out, so we didn't get stuck waiting for fifteen minute blocks of time.
AND NOW IMAGES.
This bridge was on the road down to camp (though this was taken from the car as we were leaving). It was, as my brother put it, a "sketchy-ass bridge." But we drove over it, anyway.
This acorn took it upon itself to spin like a top, despite no one having touched it. Creepy! Sadly, I only got an image after it stopped.
HE IS A GOOD DOG!
... but he is ridiculously afraid of storms. omghide. under the bathtub. they won't find you there. (He does this at home, too, only he can actually get under the one at home...)
He hid most of this morning, too, though not always under the bathtub.
FAIL-SKIING ADVENTURES!
Brother, prior to an actual attempt:
Splatter-flop:
No, Jecca, you need to hold on to the rope...
My father is a show off.
Random shots of the lake:
If you looked from left to right...
Outside the cabin:
SILENT HILL VIBES AUGH
Shed and fire pit.
Spiderweb on a tree:
Random things from inside the cabin:
APPLES:
Delicious watermelon!
These were on the wall in the room I was in:
Chairs on the porch:
This is a weather stick, I don't know how it works.
DEEEEER. It SEES INTO YOUR SOUL and it MAKES A FACE.
Moose head oven mitts. HELL YEAH.
SPOONS!
And, finally, from the storm:
There was a river running down the hill to the front door....
This is a video of some of the worst of the storm. You can see the water and wind moving across the lake, and can sort of see the lightning flashes and hear the thunder over the rain. There was thunder and lightning pretty much nonstop for an hour and a half. It was completely crazy.
There are surprisingly few spiders around here right now. I was expecting them to have come in and taken over, as they seem to do whenever I stop paying attention for more than five minutes, but there currently aren't that many hanging out in plain sight.... I guess they were waiting for me. I'm sure there will be hundreds of them tomorrow.
I've been in Maine for the last few days at a camp owned by Aniko's family. My parents and the dog are still there, but Aniko, my brother, and I all came home today, due to prior commitments.
Pictures after the text.
My parents actually went up on Monday. My brother got home Sunday night, so they were able to give him a brief rundown of things, but then they forgot the bag with the dry dog food and all of his dog-pills. Oops. They phoned me Monday night to tell me to tell my brother, since they couldn't get him to answer at home, but the simple reason for that was he was out here visiting me.
Tuesday, I went to meet with the department manager at the store I'll hopefully be working in soon. They can only give me 15-19 hours a week for now which, even with VT's high minimum wage, won't be enough to cover everything, but 15 is better than zero, and they'll see about increasing my hours after I've been back for a few weeks.
We left Wednesday morning, and the drive out is basically identical to the one we took when I was attending a university in Maine, so I was having fun seeing everything again. We hit massive amounts of roadwork near the New Hampshire/Maine border, but we made good time and were at the camp by 2 in the afternoon. Hot day, nice lake... and I finally remember what I'd forgotten (because you always forget something): my swimsuit. Argh. Mom and Aniko's mother were running to the nearish town for some errands, and there were some shops around, so I tagged along and managed to find a top that didn't offend my sensibilities, and my mother had a pair of swimming shorts that she doesn't use but had brought along anyway (who knows why?), so... new suit. Sort of. We took the long way home to see a bunch of pretty scenery, and it was evening and time to start dinner by the time we got back, so Wednesday I mostly spent a lot of time in the car. Though! That night, we took one of the boats and (after removing the OMG GIANT SPIDER AUGH I nearly died) went out into the middle of the lake to look at the stars. So pretty!
Thursday I woke up at 10 (which means I slept for ten hours. What the hell?) and my brother was going to try water-skiing. Well, what the heck? I threw my makeshift suit on and joined everyone on the dock. My brother failed at water-skiing, though he gave it a good effort. I failed, too. But it was fun so who cares? And then my father showed us all up by getting up on his first try and skiing along for a ways. But he's done it before. CHEATER.
Also, my mother, who'd refused to go get in her swimsuit, fell in the lake while trying to direct the dog onto the ramp out. I laughed rather more than I probably should have.
Anyway, turns out water-skiing - or attempting to water-ski - is ridiculously hard work, so I was done in the water for a while. Whoo, rubber arms. But later that afternoon I went "noodling" with my mother and Aniko's mother and a bunch of other people I don't know. You put in flippers and take one of those ... swimming noodle things, and you kick around some area of the lake. We were stalked by a loon the whole way. Once, he even came right up close to us. We could see his red eyes watching us. It was really cool!
After all that swimming (we were out for something like an hour), I was tired, so I dried off and took a nap.... and then sat around and talked with my brother for a while, ate dinner, and then hung around and talked with people some more.
Friday morning, my mother and father went out so my mother could fish. She caught a bass or two, but she put everything she caught back. It was gloomy (and I slept ten hours again, ugh), but we went out "noodling" again, and, hey! There was the loon again! I wore my glasses this time, so I could see him really well. It started raining after only about half an hour, so we hurried back across and got out. Aniko and her mother had to go to meet her sisters, so they left after a bit. Shortly after they did, a massive storm arrived. We lost power about an hour, hour and a half into it, and there was a tornado warning for our exact location (warning apparently meaning the funnels were actually spotted). My family went out for dinner at a little place after the storm died down a bit, and after we got back, some other friends of Aniko's family had arrived (it was a big cabin), so we met them and hung around talking until Aniko and her mother got back, and shortly after that, most of us, since it was near midnight by then.
Today it was damp and a bit chilly, but too humid to actually be cold. I did not swim, because I did not want to ride home with damp hair. Everyone but Aniko sat around playing Spoons for a good part of the afternoon. If you have never played Spoons, you are missing out. It is fun. And also violent.
(Actually, it was pretty disappointing. All I ever saw Aniko do was sleep and sit in her room or on the couch reading. Though I hear she went out canoeing with my father and brother once.)
And the drive home was uneventful. Since it's a weekend, the road crews weren't out, so we didn't get stuck waiting for fifteen minute blocks of time.
AND NOW IMAGES.
This bridge was on the road down to camp (though this was taken from the car as we were leaving). It was, as my brother put it, a "sketchy-ass bridge." But we drove over it, anyway.
This acorn took it upon itself to spin like a top, despite no one having touched it. Creepy! Sadly, I only got an image after it stopped.
HE IS A GOOD DOG!
... but he is ridiculously afraid of storms. omghide. under the bathtub. they won't find you there. (He does this at home, too, only he can actually get under the one at home...)
He hid most of this morning, too, though not always under the bathtub.
FAIL-SKIING ADVENTURES!
Brother, prior to an actual attempt:
Splatter-flop:
No, Jecca, you need to hold on to the rope...
My father is a show off.
Random shots of the lake:
If you looked from left to right...
Outside the cabin:
SILENT HILL VIBES AUGH
Shed and fire pit.
Spiderweb on a tree:
Random things from inside the cabin:
APPLES:
Delicious watermelon!
These were on the wall in the room I was in:
Chairs on the porch:
This is a weather stick, I don't know how it works.
DEEEEER. It SEES INTO YOUR SOUL and it MAKES A FACE.
Moose head oven mitts. HELL YEAH.
SPOONS!
And, finally, from the storm:
There was a river running down the hill to the front door....
This is a video of some of the worst of the storm. You can see the water and wind moving across the lake, and can sort of see the lightning flashes and hear the thunder over the rain. There was thunder and lightning pretty much nonstop for an hour and a half. It was completely crazy.
There are surprisingly few spiders around here right now. I was expecting them to have come in and taken over, as they seem to do whenever I stop paying attention for more than five minutes, but there currently aren't that many hanging out in plain sight.... I guess they were waiting for me. I'm sure there will be hundreds of them tomorrow.