Beloved Of The Woods: Weekend Escape

We live a hectic life, J and I. Beyond the fact that both of us commute over an hour to work (in opposite directions), we have a great group of friends, lots of various interests and hobbies that have events we love to attend, and are both lucky enough to be close to our families. This can lead to Social Burnout. Symptoms include sniping at each other over nothing, the feeling that you are never pleasing anybody, and general exhaustion. We had that. It's hard to be a grown up and as popular as we are.

We needed a recharge. We are both fortunate to have family houses on lakes (in New England we call these 'camps'). Last weekend we went to my family's camp. I gave my parents and brother lectures about how we would like to be left alone, that drop-ins where NOT ALLOWED (rude? probably. desperate times and all that) and we headed up Friday night.

It was glorious. It was exactly what we needed. After an aborted attempt at sleeping in (any one want two dogs?), we got up and had a leisurely breakfast and coffee, played cards and talked about everything and nothing. It's weird when you have to catch up with some one that you live with. Since it was rainy and gloomy we headed out and ran a couple errands. By the time we were done the sun was shining. J set up a makeshift brewing line and I dragged an extension cord outside so I could catch up on creating a friend's wedding invitations. We tied up the dogs and worked in companionable silence for hours. I have to admit it took until about noon for me to finally let go and relax completely.

The temperature was perfectly New England fall- warm in the sun but chilled in the shade. I took a break and walked the dogs to the water to play. Guffy was not having it, but Tucker played with me and the waves for a bit. When he was spent, we went back and I curled up with my latest book (The Paris Wife- loooooving it). Dinner was slow cooked ribs, grilled corn, and potato salad. I started to document the making of potato salad to share with you all, but I got distracted halfway through and stopped taking pictures. Sorry! After dinner we played cards again and were in bed by 9:30. Glorious.