banter
July 10th, 2009This month’s banner is taken over July 4th weekend up at Mt. Riga, a cabin on a mountain by a lake in CT. The cabin originally belonged to my Great Aunt and Uncle, but since they’ve passed it’s been inherited by my dad’s cousins. It doesn’t have any electricity, so all the lighting is by kerosene lamps, and the fridge and stove are gas powered. The water is from a nearby well. They have an outhouse. Staying there is a major mental battery recharge. Although, as my sister says, you have to get used to the silence.
Max took this picture, and the dappled light is spectacular. You can’t see very well, but there’s laundry hanging in the background. I’m playing an old tenor ukelele that lives in the house. It’s only got 3 strings, and I tune them like a guitar, but it’s surprising how much music you can get out of it. My dad is enjoying a bourbon and watching on. My favorite tenor uke moment was when my mom (extremely randomly) requested that she wanted to hear some Fugazi and I was able to pick out the bassline for "Waiting Room". My sister and I then did our best Guy & Ian impressions. Magic moment.
I’m working on how to change the blog title color…it’s killing me…I only know enough css & php & so on to get me into trouble…
UPDATE – got the title color under control…results of my first experience of posting a problem on a support forum and people actually taking the time to reply and help me fix it! Who are these people?! Can I give them an award?
your mom requested fugazi?
It was indeed a surreal moment–I believe mom got 12 points for even knowing who Fugazi is, Josh got 10 points for being able to pick it out on the ukelele, and I got 5 points for singing along unabashedly. Carolyn Granger wins again!
Such a great story, thats why life is worth livin
you and sis should record an album for your folks with that ukelele then give it to them for xmas, make an album cover from the pic your gonna post for the banner
awesome
PS, story had such great juju i needed to learn a little more about this Mt Riga
first link i came to. you all are some Raggies….gangster
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Carolyn did indeed win that one. There was something so surreal-y amazing about hearing her say “Play some Fugazi”…it took a while for the information to process in my brain that I had indeed heard correctly…wonderful…
and nice work OD, I love that info! Raggies indeed! Plus, that Civil War-era forge they talk about is still up there, it’s amazing! Huge, stone, you can go inside it and live the dream. I’ll post a pic, I know I have one around…
The cabin truly rocks.