Y’all may have noticed I’m not where I usually am…Friday morning at OMG I’m not even usually up by now, I was on a plane with my parental units and my ex-husband (no really)…
I graded student videos all the way across the United States (it was easier than you might think…although the internet signal was iffy over the Rocky Mountains)…
Like right about here (good reason to look out the window rather than watch the spinning wheels of no video yet)…
That’s snow y’all. Three airports, two planes, one medium delay, and a not-particularly-short car ride later…we arrived at our AirBnb near Ithaca, New York…a property with 3 very funky and rustic cottages. The only table we all fit at is outside…
There’s lots of interesting in this place. INTERESTING…
That’s the nice bathroom…I actually didn’t mind the other one. In fact, I took a shower in it just fine.
This is not the shed I’m sleeping in (although it’s right next to what I’m sleeping in)…
The front porch, where I wrote most of this, ate my lunch, and graded a bunch of kid videos…apparently there’s a skunk living under this porch.
Well. Not apparently. We saw it multiple times.
Here’s the main cottage on the left, with living room, kitchen, and one of the bedrooms. To the right, is the nicer bathroom and another sitting area plus another bedroom…
I’ll have to get a better picture of where the girlchild and I slept. It’s behind me in this picture.
This is Blue, the cat who comes with the place.
He’s sweet and adorable…and more than a little pudgy.
Ithaca Falls…coming from a drought state, this stuff is freakin’ amazing.
Girlchild and I taking photos of each other…
My parents, helping each other on the path to one of the rivers in the area…
The clock tower at Cornell…which is where we are…and where graduation is…
I’ve stitched nothing. I’ve drawn nothing. I’ve graded about 110 student videos, with probably another 150 to go. Wow. OK. That’s depressing…well, I’m not going to think too hard about that. It’s OK. We drove a million miles away and found the boychild a car, so he can drive his stuff home. Graduation present…CHECK. Then we came back and obviously toured the school a bit, bought food, ate…and now we’re sitting outside, getting eaten by who knows what, drinking some wine, and debating the plan for graduation viewing tomorrow…with potential thunderstorms on the horizon for all day…minor issue.
My brain is pretty blank right now. I’m looking forward to seeing the boychild graduate. I’m eating some blackberry ice cream and hazelnut cookies. I’m listening to the girlchild plan her future, which is interesting. INTERESTING. More tomorrow? Who knows…I can’t even tell you all the stressful shit we’ve discussed tonight…if you think raising adults is easier than teenagers, I can’t agree. At least not this weekend…
Kathy Nida 
Be sure to visit the campus ice cream parlor, the ice cream there is made on campus from their dairy herd. Upstate NY is so pretty in the summer, I miss the greens.
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