quick trip to maine

poor little superette, neglected all this time.

honestly, we're in our last week of new england living and we've been busy saying our goodbyes.

thanks, j & m, for a wonderful visit to maine.









for years, dabney and i had been searching high and low for an affordable canoe and what-do-you-know - j & m were nice enough to pass theirs off to us.


when we returned home, we promptly took it out for its maiden vermont voyage.

dabney strikes again

just when i thought that being away from the hubbub of boston would deter our resident craigslist troller from doing what she does best.



i discover that she has been searching vermont craigslist!

after months of craigslist inactivity, i thought maybe she was off chairs. i was wrong. dab not only found three thonet chairs - she got them for all $75.

kiddo-palooza

it was kiddo-palooza in barnard last weekend. nothing got broken, only one kid puked, and fun was had by all.

dabney, ever the shutterbug, caught it all on film.

kids and moustaches

we just love it when happy parents send us pictures of their happy kids sporting one of our tees. here's the latest:


isn't she adorable?

it's has been a long time since i posted anything moustache-related. we packed all our fake ones up and i finally talked myself out of the 'stache finger tattoo. (after all, i hear moustaches are "so five minutes ago.") but i couldn't resist this one:



how fun would moustache pint glasses be?

spotted at the grocery store

"farto" cheese

seen in the streets of woodstock, vt

visiting friends and a herd of cows

access to the internet, in our corner of vermont, has been next to nothing recently -- thus, the very sporadic posts. it seems that when it rains in vermont (which has been daily), wi-fi signals go haywire.

so before it all disappears once again... here are some recent pictures. it has been the month of weekend guests, so we've been doing the appropriate tubing, cheese tasting, campfires, bingo and hiking.

mogo in teen vogue!

click the pic below to embiggen:

montana activities

after arriving in whitefish at 4 am, we went whitewater rafting - a perfect "wake up, you're in montana activity," if you ask me.



i couldn't capture the areas of rapids we paddled through on camera. it is needless to say my hands were a bit busy. but with names like canopener, the washboards, pinball falls, and bonecrusher - you get the idea (and also the reason for the dorky helmets).

we spent much of our time hiking. in five days, we went on four different hikes - each one took us into different terrain than the other.

hike #1: we accidently took the wrong route and sent ourselves up a 6.4 mile vertical route that took is up to 3500 feet in elevation. it was waaaaay beyond our my physical capabilities but once we started, we dabney felt committed.


honestly, i looked like this towards the top of the mountain. i felt like my feet weighed a ton each and the legs attached like jell-o.

ok, i'll admit it though... the view from the top was amazing as well as the awaiting chalet.






hike #2, sore as hell from our 13 mile journey, we decided to do a short walk through the woods on the most popular trail complete with gorges and a lake.



that afternoon, we joined my parents for a nice scenic ride at nearby big mountain resort. it's hard to tell in the picture below, but the chairlift put the fear of god in my mother. however, two minutes in and she was remarking on how nice the wind felt ("like air conditioning").



hike #3, we decided a nice, FLAT lakeside hike would be a good change of pace.



hike #4, took us through sub-alpine terrain with open fields. big horn sheep and mountain goats awaited us.



the mountain goats kept approaching us and seemed to take a real shine to us - so much so that another hiker asked us if we had some sort of magic goat pellets. (i think that we just happened to be standing in their way each time.)


beyond these sights was an unexpected snow field that proved harder to walk on than i expected. now, i understand the need for trekking poles in such conditions. a pair of those things might have eased the soreness from hike #1 in fact.




this is my paddington bear look obviously.

holy hannah montana!

it has been a surreal forty-eight hours. on monday morning, we were hanging out with mountain goats (see above). by tuesday evening, we were having a quick cocktail in one of our old haunts back in boston.

northwest montana was a spectacular trip - complete with whitewater rafting and many, many miles of hiking (more on that later). but first, the scenery...



living in vermont, it's hard not to take beautiful scenery for granted, but the scenery within glacier national park was the definition of breathtaking. let's face it - the rockies make vermont's green mountains look like speedbumps.




BIG mountains, tiny flowers

everywhere we looked there was snapshot. and in the 4 days we spent in the park, we took well over four hundred. here are three:






you know it's pretty when a cameraphone can take this!

a birthday surprise

we had a last minute travel opportunity and now, we're headed to MONTANA for the next five days (a surprise present from mom and dad). i am packing my boots and doing a load of laundry.

pictures soon.

1...2...3... happy birthday to me

i love sesame street and i love feist, so what better way to ring in this day than to watch the video below...

mogo at artbeat

we're off to boston for this weekend's somerville artbeat. click the image above for more details.

dabney's at it again

she found another craigslist deal - this time for a stylie vintage lamp.

did i mention the lamp is in st. louis?

she conned her sweet sister-in-law into picking it up for her.

the lamp so large that sis-in-law is going to need a large truck and her husband to haul it home. not to mention, they have to keep the behemoth for 6 months on our behalf. we're not sure if they have realized this fact yet.

i am just glad it's not a chair.