Astute readers will notice I am once again sending this email on a Friday morning instead of a Thursday morning. While some would categorize this as “two weeks of being late,” I prefer to acknowledge that time is a social construct, which means it doesn’t matter when I post this :) Another explanation for this would be that I am actually queering time and deadlines by not sticking to prescribed narratives of what time “is.” You get it and you agree with me.
This week has been a lovely one here in NYC. But what I want to talk about in this newsletter is NOT fall in NYC, it is fall in western Massachusetts! (can anyone spell that right on the first time) Last weekend, Allison and I joined my family up in Great Barrington to enjoy some fall festivities. The biggest one was the SHEEP AND WOOL FESTIVAL IN RHINEBECK, NY. Did you not know there was a sheep and wool festival in Rhinebeck, NY? Well, my question to you is: where the hell have you been loca???
The festival was a damn delight and a national treasure. We saw sheep! We saw llamas (they may have been alpacas who’s to say)! We saw COLORFUL YARN!!!! It was a real treat and I bought a cute knit hat that I will be wearing all winter, readers, you’ve been warned. There were also some really wonderful eats at the festival which I guess shouldn’t have surprised us because it is, to some, implied in the name “festival,” but it did surprise me! I had a tasty falafel sandwich and then an apple crumble later on and by the time I left my tummy, and my heart, were full :) wow am I the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?!?!?!
Before I move on I simply must shout out dear friends Gabe and Julie who really brought the festival to our attention in the first place. We wouldn’t have been there without them. Thank you both for your service <3
The next day, festivities continued with a TRUCK AND PUMPKIN festival!?!? This one was absolutely for kids but my adult family had a wonderful time regardless. We sat in trucks, we crunched some leaves, we got tired of kids yelling because don’t they know that grown ups are trying to enjoy the peaceful fall breeze without their nonsense??? Why were they even there this event was very sophisticated. At one point, some teenagers helped a four year old boy chuck a pumpkin with their pumpkin-chucking-machine (that’s it’s scientific name). It was a thrill to watch and even more of a thrill to watch this kid enjoy it so much. Before we left, we saw a bunch of older guys preparing for the “pumpkin drop” which was set to happen a few hours later. They were rigging up a MASSIVE pumpkin to be lifted by a super tall crane and then it was going to, you guessed it, drop. Although we didn’t see it, I can only imagine it was dazzling and spectacular. Sometimes it rly is the simplest things that are the best :’)
Then Al and I got kids’ medium size T-shirts that say TRUCK DAY on them. They are absolutely too small for us but they are bright orange and have a stick figure drawing of a truck and a little dude on top so we had to get them (plus they were free so as my dad said “you couldn’t afford NOT to get it!”)
Anyway, it was a lovely weekend full of simple and pure fall fun and I think the moral of the story is: we should all be chucking pumpkins more.
Check out some pics!
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