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Today was a fun day. We had kind of a late start, just hanging around the house in the morning before going to a public (park-like) working farm in the afternoon. projectmothra and Ellie really loved seeing all the animals, though there was a bit of a struggle with keeping Ellie from scaling the fences and jumping in with the various animals. She also stuck her fingers into the turkey pen, trying to pet one, and promptly got her finger nipped for her trouble. I thought it was a bit of an object lesson, which might have been mean, but I still thought that it'd be good for her to know that the animals need a bit of their own space.

Everything looks different up here in New York--the quality of the light is different, paler and less focused somehow than Florida sun, but still very bright. Trees reach bare limbs up toward a vivid sky. The houses look older somehow, regal, more wood and brick than stucco and concrete block. Lots of structures have an underground component, which makes sense, but I'm noticing it more now than I did the last time I was up this way ten years ago. And it's gorgeously cool during the day, though it dips down to chilly at night.

Ellie was up late tonight, which is pretty normal, but it was frustrating for me when all I wanted to do was hang out and chill with my friends. It kinda feels like a vacation for Ellie in a lot of ways, but it's still good to get to hang out with beetiger and bardbloom, even if most of our conversations are punctuated with child interruptions, and many trains of thought are lost over the course of even a few hours. In that respect, it's a lot like home. But it's good nonetheless.

Right now I'm tired and I should probably go to bed. So...more later. I think tomorrow we're going to a children's museum in the city and Saturday we're going to the zoo.