They say we only have 2 seasons up here, winter and the 4th of July, sadly it's kind of true. Here we are not quite mid-August and the leaves are slightly turning, the evenings are cooler and it seems to rain every day.
I never really gave much thought to the weather until I moved up here, now I seem to want to grasp every sunbeam and save it for what I know will be a long dark winter. So, when there aren't many sunbeams to grasp it can get frustrating. I don't mind the cooler weather, I prefer it actually; it's the gloom that makes me want to live someplace where the sun shines alot more than it does here.
We went to the lake again this past weekend, but it was too cold to swim and the water was too rough to just casually wade without getting drenched. My rock was all wet and the trip to get to it would have meant wading through many inches of washed up algae and vegetation....ick. I hope we can claim at least another day or two of sunshine and calm waters before the weather changes all together.
September can sometimes fool us up here and be quite warm...one can only hope.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Speaking of rocks...
This weekend my friend and I went to the Herkimer Diamond Mines in Herkimer, NY. As you might have guessed there are not real diamonds but beautiful pieces of crystal. The process is you go, pay them 10.00 , they give you a hammer and point you towards the mines. There are 2 of them , which resemble large quarys. There's no underground involved here.
The idea is to break off pieces of the wall of rock ( or split rocks already on the ground) in hopes of finding some of these "diamonds". The day we were day it rained pretty steadily but on we pushed, hammers and chisels ( from home ) in hand. We weren't alone, there were probably 40-50 people at each mine.
Finally after thinking we'd broken enough rock my friend gave me a rock to crack and low and behold there were "diamonds"inside. It's actually amazing to me that these stones form within stones and when you break open the right rock they just tumble out. The ones we got weren't very large and we kept looking for awhile more but the rain got the best of us and we ended our search.
All in all it was a fun day and a great way to get rid of your agression if you have any :). I would recomend it to anyone who likes to do something different and also it's a fun place to take the kids.
The idea is to break off pieces of the wall of rock ( or split rocks already on the ground) in hopes of finding some of these "diamonds". The day we were day it rained pretty steadily but on we pushed, hammers and chisels ( from home ) in hand. We weren't alone, there were probably 40-50 people at each mine.
Finally after thinking we'd broken enough rock my friend gave me a rock to crack and low and behold there were "diamonds"inside. It's actually amazing to me that these stones form within stones and when you break open the right rock they just tumble out. The ones we got weren't very large and we kept looking for awhile more but the rain got the best of us and we ended our search.
All in all it was a fun day and a great way to get rid of your agression if you have any :). I would recomend it to anyone who likes to do something different and also it's a fun place to take the kids.
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