The Farm

For the past week, I have been in upstate New York, mowing my grandparent's lawn and helping out around the house.

On our travels here, our short plane ride from Newark to Ithaca was cancelled because of "storms", so we drove 4 hours to Ithaca through the "storms".

On this trip i brought my drone, here is a short video i made with it.



A couple of days ago, I got a dirtbike, which is AWESOME.

Today was the annual tractor parade, 31 people attended.

The Switch

The Conversations: Slow Connection

This is the second video in "The Conversations" series.

The Conversations: People and Cars

Here is the first episode of my new series, "The Conversations", featuring Stoff.

New York 2013 Part 11

Yesterday, I went fishing and swimming with some kids from down the street in the pond. Very refreshing.

Then, after pizza
dinner, we went to see the play Gypsy at the Hangar Theatre.

Today, it was so hot that I stayed indoors most of the day, but during the afternoon I went out and mowed the lawns...

My aunt, uncle, and cousins came over for dinner and we played croquet.

New York 2013 Part 10

Yesterday we drove back upstate from New Jersey. It was about a 4 and a half hour drive.

Today was the tractor parade. It started at 3:00 PM and ended at 3:10. Then we had the after-party in the front lawn.

Then I went fishing and swimming in some people's pond. We also lit off fireworks.

New York 2013 Part 9

Yesterday, we went to my mom's old house just outside the New York City. We even went inside. We also visited old friends and drove by Meg Whitman's old house...

Then we drove into New York City. It was smooth sailing until Manhattan. Then it all stopped... Bumper to bumper across the island. When we got to our friends' house in New Jersey... We saw the view of THE WHOLE CITY.

Today, we caught the 10:00 AM ferry to the World Financial Center, where we got on the subway to Rockefeller Center (I may or may not have been on the today show or whatever horrible daytime television NBC has), where we met up with our friends for lunch.

After lunch, we went to the east village to go to Obscura. A very odd place... Then we got back on the subway and went to the Whitney Museum of Art, but it was closed. So we walked through Central Park to the New York Historical Society, a very interesting place, where we learned about the history of New York and saw a lot of Tiffany lamps. Then we went to Zabar's for wine, but no. We had go across the street (Broadway) to a liquor store.

Then we got on the 1 train to 50th street and went to Rockefeller Center again and saw my uncle's picture in the FDNY store.

Then we met back up with our friends and got on the bus to New Jersey.

New York 2013 Part 8

Yesterday morning, I took a shower then went kayaking for about 45 minutes. When I came back I took another shower. Then we went to a graduation party. When we came back other family members had arrived for dinner and we went kayaking again. When we came back we stayed in the water for a little while, then, I took ANOTHER shower (3 showers total!!). Then we played croquet.

For dinner, we had ribs and chicken. After dinner I went to a beach fire with one of my cousins... We left at 8:45 PM and the fire didn't start until 10:00 PM, no one had matches... At 11:00 2 fireworks were lit, then we left.

Today, more cousins came over and we all went kayaked to the beach. Then played croquet, then had lunch, then played more croquet, then went kayaking again, then they left.

New York 2013 Part 7

Yesterday, we left for Long Island at 11:00 AM. We went through Binghamton then into Pennsylvania to Scranton where we saw the Pennsylvania Paper building (that was in the intro to the Office). Then we headed to New Jersey, followed by a drive over the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan. Then another bridge into the Bronx. Then the traffic started. We spent 30 minutes on the Cross Bronx Expressway. When we finally went over the Throgs Neck Bridge into Queens. Then we slowly got on the Cross Island Expressway and slowly went to the Long Island Expressway. Then we spent 2 hours on the Long Island Expressway. We arrived at the north tip of the island at 7:10 PM...

Pennsylvania Paper Building

Today, I went out kayaking with one of my second cousins in Peconic Bay. Then went for a short bike ride around the peninsula and looked at the Sandy damage. 

New York 2013 Part 6

Yesterday morning, we went to the airport to pick up my mom. When we got back I mowed the lawns. It once again took 2 hours. Then we had lunch. After lunch I set croquet up in the front yard. 

Then after dinner, we played a round of croquet and my grandma won.

Today, I worked with my grandpa on the flag rig for the tractor. We attached the newly painted boards to the metal supports and drilled holes for the flags... A lot more work than it seems. 

This afternoon, my grandma and I started to handout invitations to the parade. We got about 6 houses done.  

Then we went to the farmer's market. It was OK.