So besides the new vanity sink, another gift for Pop (and Mom) during Father’s Day weekend, we took a staycation and drove up to the Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm for a long weekend.
We love to travel. To see and learn new things. To taste and smell new things.
When we’re able to afford it and when we have the time. But Life continues to happen and Time continues to move forward.
And the fact that we aren’t as young as we used to be, time’s a’wasting and nowadays, we’re all about spending this precious family time the best that we can.
So, since we’ve moved to Pennsylvania a handful of years ago, we haven’t really had a chance to explore our new place. On my To-Do list was the Poconos.
We heard so much about the Poconos, how great it was, how pretty it was, but given that we (Zen Master, Zen Mum and I) are a trio of old hags, partaking in things like skiing, swimming or hiking aren’t even options for us.
Activities that expect people to meander and explore and eat, sign us up!
Yes, we’re happily boring.
“Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm, is a non-profit, living history museum preserving 19th century Pennsylvania German agricultural heritage. Period dressed interpreters portray descendants of Johann Depper, re-enacting daily life on the farm.” — from Quiet Valley’s home page.
We traipsed around the farm, breathed in the manure-filled air, heard the animal cries and sneezed at the specks of whatever that we’re allergic to, which, for me, is most everything outside my house.
It was lovely, really, to be out in the sun and exploring a farm that they’re maintaining for history. I learned how they made cloth on the loom, from wool sheared from their sheep, from fax.
Honestly, I didn’t know that linen was made from fax. Things that make you go hmm.
I believe that sometimes we need to take a step back from everyday life and visit the past. If nothing but to remember where we came from and just how far we’ve advanced.
And appreciate how it was in the old days.
To be continued.
