Happy Monday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been a couple weeks since you’ve heard from me, first because I was training a new girl at work and was brain-dead by the time I got home, and second because I was on vacation! It was full of whitewater rafting, bookstores, a St. Vincent concert, backyard chickens, and the best part: my BFF Juliana!
Juliana and I (and our respective boys) had a great time eating lots of good food, drinking lots of good beer, and hanging out at lots of good bookstores, including Battery Park Book Exchange (which has a bar!) and Malaprops.
On Sunday, Hubs and I went whitewater rafting on the French Broad River, tackling the rapids and even a couple category fours! I was terrified of whitewater rafting before the trip, but it was So Much Fun! No one fell out of the raft (although I did fall into the raft a couple times), and we came out on the other end of the river under musket and cannon fire, because they were doing a reenactment across the road. Let me tell you, there’s nothing stranger than hauling a blow-up raft up a path, only to step aside and let the Union Calvary through. Totally bizarre.
After Asheville, we headed to Charlotte for a St.Vincent concert. It’s the fourth time we’ve been to see her, and she was awesome as always. Then, on the way home, we stopped in Columbia, SC at a chicken farm and picked up two little chickens! We’ve been wanting chickens for a while, and the week off was the perfect time to get them home and acclimated to us (and us to them) before we had to get back to work. We bought a Plymouth Barred Rock who we named Mad Maxina, and an Ameraucana mix who we named Imperator Furiosa (I think you can tell which movie we went to see recently).
The chickens kept us occupied for the rest of the week. Max is just as mad as her name implies, and Fury is fearless. Max runs around like a madwoman, and screams bloody murder every time we try to pick her up, but she’s getting used to us and will sometimes even come to investigate. Fury walked right up to our bigger dog on the second day, totally not scared of anything. They get along really well – although Max sometimes chases Fury around, when it’s bedtime they snuggle right up in the same nesting box, and when Max can’t find Fury she runs around peeping for her until she finds her and can cuddle. It’s the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen.
And now it’s back to reality: dayjobs and editing (whoa boy do I need to finish editing!). But at least we have these cute, feathered reminders of the most awesome week ever 🙂
I don’t think I’ll have Science Tuesday up tomorrow, but expect it on Thursday. And I’m doing #WriteMotivation again this month, so keep an eye out for writing updates starting next week. Have a great week, Aledans!
Adventures and vacations are always fun, but sad when they end.
I was very sad when this one ended. It was an awesome week.
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