Our Weekend of Bluegrass

So... I started this post last week after we got back from Grey Fox, but saved it and forgot about it. Sorry. Anyway, we had a fantastic long weekend at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill, NY in the Catskills. Keith, Allan, Suzy, Acer, and I arrived Wednesday evening to set up camp. Thanks to yet another "Grey Fox Miracle" Suzy found us a perfect place to call home when another group decided to move to another spot! We had several pop-up tents to set up a "kitchen" and "living room" to hang out in. Allan and I brought a giant tent and a futon in order to be as comfy as possible. No music Wednesday, but Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were filled with amazing bluegrass! For those of you who know bluegrass we saw: Abagail Washburn and Sparrow Quartet, Infamous Stringdusters, Del McCoury, David Grisman, Sam Bush, Hot Rize, Jerry Douglas, Tim O'Brien, Uncle Earl, and more! It was definitely one of the best years yet! (Although I think I say that every year) The only problem was that it was sooooo hot... We chose not to go see much daytime music, which we have done a lot of in the past. Acer did incredibly well in the heat, but he was more interested in staying under the pop up tent or in the water, so we mostly saw late afternoon and evening music. This picture is from a really great swimming hole that our friend Jon brought us to (he's from the area). Acer had his first swimming hole experience. This picture is the "baby train" we made to send him back up the hill after swimming. (Don't worry, he went down that way too. No jumping for Acer quite yet...) We were with such great friends and family, all who clearly love Acer :) All in all, a wonderful weekend!

Now we're back home and hoping for some more nice weather to enjoy summer. We are a little sick of the rain. Even our garden is getting a little fed up. We harvested our garlic and onions and are still eating greens, zucchini and yellow squash, our second round of peas, beets, carrots, and a few jalapeno peppers. Tomatoes look great! Just a few more weeks until we can start making sauce and salsa!

Hope you are all enjoying your summers! We love and miss you!