A Sculpture Garden, Two Brides and a Refrigerator. In that order.
How do you spend a stay-cation over Labor Day weekend when you’re part of the Stinkerbean family? Well, you make yourselves ridiculously busy with things both sublime and mundane.
Here’s the sublime part.
Saturday we whisked ourselves away to Mountainville, New York, for a large dose of culture at the Storm King Art Center, which is a breathtaking outdoor sculpture reserve only about an hour or so away from us. I knew we would see a lot, maybe not all Storm King had to offer. After all, it’s an outdoor space comprising 500 acres of hills, grass and sculptures ranging in size from 5 to 300 feet tall. But, I knew we’d eat outdoors, play, touch some art, and sit in the grass. If we made it out without tears (since Lolo would be skipping her nap), we’d be ahead of the game. As we waited for a tram (otherwise known as a choo-choo to someone that still counts her age in months) to take us to the farther reaches of the property, we tried to think of how Lolo had changed our visit and she really hadn’t. It turns out that our collective attention span is much like hers and we were all ready to leave at the same time. That either says a lot about her maturity or not so much about ours.
Lolo's favorite "sculpture". She is very into diggers right now!
Sunday we headed back to Brooklyn to celebrate with our dear friends Hannah and Michelle as they got married under the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a lovely wedding, a beautiful and fitting setting and a glorious time. H & M, we wish you all the best of love, life and happiness! Mazel Tov!
Then we wrapped up the weekend with the not-so-sublime. Refrigerator shopping. Yes, we’re in the market for a new appliance. Not by choice. Who wants to spend a hunk of money on something that you can’t watch Bravo TV on anyway? Our current fridge may have been the best Frigidaire had to offer in the 80s, but now it’s just an inefficient mess that sometimes stay closed and sometimes doesn’t. The fridge freezes anything near the back and the freezer door leaks water. So, it’s definitely time to put it out of its misery. But, that meant we had to devote a whole day to visiting our nearby appliance stores. And, this is only after hours and hours of online research. If you were wondering, it is nearly impossible to find normal sized fridges anymore. All the new models are made to fit the dream kitchens of tomorrow and not the less dreamy kitchen spaces of the early 1920s. But, we do indeed have one on order. Now we will have two stainless steel appliances and two black ones rather than one white, two black and one stainless. Apparently, we’re headed in the right direction.
When it’s delivered, we will take a family picture with it.
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