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Da Weekend So Far
Friday was Veterans' Day, and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere had the day off. Her niece and the niece's husband came to NYC for the weekend to see some Broadway shows and do tourist stuff, so I took a vacation day Friday, we met them in Manhattan for lunch and talked for a couple of hours. Which was fun, but somewhat exhausting when you're out of practice extroverting, even with family.
Saturday morning I walked the dogs, fed the dogs, fed myself, and whenshalmestere woke up, told her "It's an absolutely gorgeous day: high of 70F, light breeze, blue skies, puffy white clouds... it would be criminal to not do something outdoorsy today." So we put the dogs in the car and drove up the Hudson to Anthony's Nose for a hike.
Anthony's Nose is reached by a several-mile hike from a trailhead in a small parking lot off a twisty mountain road just north of Peekskill. When we got there, I slowed down just enough to observe that the small parking lot was quite full (and not quite enough to get rear-ended on the twisty mountain road), so we continued another five miles across the river to Bear Mountain, which has an enormous parking lot.
Even the Bear Mountain parking lot was nearly full, as apparently everybody else in the NYC area had reached the same conclusion I had, but we found a spot and walked the dogs around the lake and a little way up the mountain. Bailey happily Sniffed All the Things, and peed on many of them, cowered in fear from the other dogs but introduced herself to many of the people. Archie, as is his wont, excreted promptly and decided "time to go home now; this place is unfamiliar, and there are WAY too many strangers." He eventually introduced himself to a couple of other dogs, while cowering in fear from the people.
Anyway, it was a gorgeous day, in a gorgeous place. Physically somewhat tiring, but not socially (for us bipeds).
Today the weather is supposed to be intermittently rainy, and at least 15F colder than yesterday, so we'll be doing things around the house.
shalmestere had the day off. Her niece and the niece's husband came to NYC for the weekend to see some Broadway shows and do tourist stuff, so I took a vacation day Friday, we met them in Manhattan for lunch and talked for a couple of hours. Which was fun, but somewhat exhausting when you're out of practice extroverting, even with family.Saturday morning I walked the dogs, fed the dogs, fed myself, and when
shalmestere woke up, told her "It's an absolutely gorgeous day: high of 70F, light breeze, blue skies, puffy white clouds... it would be criminal to not do something outdoorsy today." So we put the dogs in the car and drove up the Hudson to Anthony's Nose for a hike.Anthony's Nose is reached by a several-mile hike from a trailhead in a small parking lot off a twisty mountain road just north of Peekskill. When we got there, I slowed down just enough to observe that the small parking lot was quite full (and not quite enough to get rear-ended on the twisty mountain road), so we continued another five miles across the river to Bear Mountain, which has an enormous parking lot.
Even the Bear Mountain parking lot was nearly full, as apparently everybody else in the NYC area had reached the same conclusion I had, but we found a spot and walked the dogs around the lake and a little way up the mountain. Bailey happily Sniffed All the Things, and peed on many of them, cowered in fear from the other dogs but introduced herself to many of the people. Archie, as is his wont, excreted promptly and decided "time to go home now; this place is unfamiliar, and there are WAY too many strangers." He eventually introduced himself to a couple of other dogs, while cowering in fear from the people.
Anyway, it was a gorgeous day, in a gorgeous place. Physically somewhat tiring, but not socially (for us bipeds).
Today the weather is supposed to be intermittently rainy, and at least 15F colder than yesterday, so we'll be doing things around the house.