It occurs to me...

[lithera]

That I've never been able to drag anyone with me out to the farm.

And that's a damned shame. Because it is amazingly beautiful out there.

So, I'm going to borrow Sean's camera and take some pictures. (How sad is that, that I don't have my own camera when I work in the Camera and Photo department?) The amazing thing about that place is that it feels so open without giving me that creepy no hills feeling that Montana gives me.

The sky is amazingly blue. Lake Superior is amazingly cold. The air, though full of evil pollen that makes me sneeze, is amazingly free of junky pollutants.

I really do love it up there. I think some of my more negative feelings about it come from a feeling of enforced isolation when I was younger. (Whether or not that was true. There were some family reunions that were anything but isolated. I just have a bunch of issues from when I was younger about not having the ability to choose where I was located.) I need to be connected to things, to people. I enjoy unplugging some and going far away but on my terms. And not for more than a month at a time.

So. This will be good and I wish it could be for longer. August, I've discovered, is really when things begin to pick back up around here. Vacation becomes amazingly difficult to take in September and once past mid-October, it becomes near impossible for more than a day at a time until March or April. We're ramping up for Christmas already.

I feel tired just thinking about it.

I do miss my family. It will be good to see them and prepare for my sister's wedding next summer.

Comments

[soquili-gitli.livejournal.com]

How sad is that, that I don't have my own camera when I work in the Camera and Photo department?

Not very, really. Most places don't give good enough discounts on such high end items, and a decent camera is way expensive.

I know that when I worked Electronics for le Target, I'd've never been able to afford one.

camera and photo department? ;)

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

Want to "lend" me one for the weekend? ;)

Re: camera and photo department? ;)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

As if they're actually here and not in the warehouse?

Re: camera and photo department? ;)

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

Stop refuting my evil schemes with your puny facts!

Mooo....

[bubbledragonnet.livejournal.com]

Farm sounds fun.

Every year in elementary school, we'd go work for one up in Pemberton, BC, called the Outdoor School. Learned more there than I did in the bloody school.

I miss going up there; you're fortunate to have that avenue. I'm envious.

Sure, I'll Go. OR Aqaba, From The Land.

[sordidatus.livejournal.com]

I can one up you in the sad department. I know very little about computers and even less about networking, I do not own or use a Pda, cell phone, or hand held GPS unit, And I am not a member of the American Professional; Geographers Assocation. Yet, I work in IT, and have a Geogrpahy degree.

WHISKY
TANGO
FOXTROT
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But,

I would love to see the farm in Michagan. Where on the hand is it anyway? Or are you a Uppy?

Re: Sure, I'll Go. OR Aqaba, From The Land.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

In the UP, man. Near the part on top that sticks out into Lake Superior.