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Day 1187: Imli Baingan

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Last day of class! I finished three small projects which was my goal! I left a little early and went to an alpaca farm which was cute. I got some fiber to spin.

I stopped at an antiques store but there was a whole display of racist “memorabilia” and I just turned around and walked back out. Why do people think that’s okay?

I just snacked for lunch so I picked up a super early dinner. I got an assortment of appetizers. It was really good! I liked the imli baingan but I wish it had more of a description because it was very similar to the chaat I got. Both were good but samesy. I would have ordered something different. Still the best food I’ve had here so far! The worst part of take out when traveling is that I can’t keep the leftovers!

Heading home tomorrow morning. It’s supposed to rain so I might try to plan around that. My car is so dusty from the fires and the dirt road rain will be welcome! Free car wash. But it would be miserable to drive all the way home in the rain.

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Day 1186: Crumb Cake

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Days are so weird when you are taking long classes! I feel like I’ve been here for every but it was only my second day. Tomorrow is the last one!

Got a lot of weaving done!

I stopped at a bagel shop/deli and picked up a turkey sandwich for lunch. It kept cold. The ice packs were really good! They were still frozen when I picked up dinner and I didn’t even have a real cooler, just a soft sided one.

For dinner I was going to get something near the bookshop/antiques stores I wanted to check out but there was a private festival going on so no parking. Instead I got pancakes and a side of corned beef hash. The pancakes were pretty good but didn’t eat much of the hash.

I also got a crumb cake square but it had jam an extra frosting on it? I don’t know if that has a different name. It’s funny how crumb cake is everywhere here! I’m honestly not sure if I like it, every time I try it it’s really greasy. Maybe I need to find a really good version. I only had a bite and that was enough.

Not sure what I’m doing for lunch tomorrow. I’m really far along with my project and I kind of want to finish it in the morning and then leave early. The days are so long and I’ve had a migraine once already. Maybe I will just bring snacks. I wasn’t expecting to be on a dirt road and the smoke. My eyes and contacts have been so dry, it’s hard to see to thread the loom and weaving is dusty work. If it wasn’t a class I drove all day for then I’d take a break.

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Day 1185: Lao Fried Rice

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Wasn’t a bad night in the motel! It wasn’t noisy until I had to get up anyway. I did get a weird cramp in my leg that woke me up and still doesn’t feel 100%. I’m assuming it’s from the driving and then weaving today for hours and being dehydrated and not a deadly clot or something.

Lunch was a bust—it was included but only one option and nothing I could eat. It was too far from anything to get lunch.

After class I went to a supermarket and got some ice packs and Haribo and am going to stop and get a sandwich in a diner on my way. I think that will be okay a few hours until lunch.

For dinner I went to this Thai/Lao place and got the fried rice with the Lao sausage and tofu but it was so bland. Maybe rural NJ isn’t into flavor? The dumplings were okay.

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Day 1184: Rasolnik

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Long day! I drove up to the Lehigh Valley in all the smoke after having a hard time getting Dottie to come in the house so I could leave. Long drive!

Lunch was at a Russian deli and so good! The smoke cleared enough that I was able to sit outside. It had great garlicky spread on the bread. Rasolnik is soup with pickles, I’ve had it before but this version had chicken and rice.

I went to a couple yarn stores and Costco to go to the bathroom (they sold tomato pie, we don’t have that!) and then one more store on really rural route to my motel. That one was super cute and I got some fiber to spin. I was excited to see it, I honestly didn’t know it was there but I had seen a picture online when I was looking for yarn shops and recognized it. It wasn’t the way I meant to go initially so it was good luck.

Then I went and picked up dinner at this little town’s Main Street. There are not a lot of options nearby but I got a good pulled pork quesadilla and coleslaw.

I knitted and finished my audiobook. Tomorrow is the first of three days of weaving classes!

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Day 1134: Broccoli

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Drove back from York but stopped at the arboretum to go to the Maryland Daffodil Show before heading home. Both York and the arboretum are right off 83 so it worked out! I hate missing the daffodils.

My thought had been to pick up lunch and eat it at the arboretum but I didn’t see a good place that was right off the highway and open. Matt said he’d heat up some red bag chicken for sandwiches so I texted him when I left the arboretum and he had it ready when I got home. The arboretum was super packed so I’m glad it worked out that way, I wouldn’t have had a place to sit and eat; there were school groups (?) every where including the benches and picnic tables and getting some sort of instruction. It was too warm to sit in the car and eat. Normally it’s pretty empty during the day during the week. Lots of people were there looking at the daffodils too!

Everyone was excited to see me when I got home but Lulu pulled my clothes from the trip out of the hamper and knocked over the bathroom trash can—two things she has never done in her little dog life—while I was outside with the other two dogs reading in the hammock. I think she was a little upset I went away! I hope she copes when I go away in June for another class. I think that one’s four days.

We had planned the chicken for dinner so Matt dashed out after lunch and picked up some food at Lidl. I really needed some actual food after two days of basically only having one not so balanced meal each day and some tiny snacks.

He made steelhead trout, broccoli and wild rice for dinner.

I got my third migraine in as many days and went to bed early but can’t sleep.

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Day 1133: Not Sad Sandwich

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I got up early and drove out to my class.

It was a yarn spinning class. My journey to this has been long. I had ordered a wheel before our vacation in September to take a class while on vacation but it didn’t work out. Then I took a class at a local yarn store but it was awful and they never actually let me touch the wheel. This why I finally decided to take a class over 90 minutes away and book a hotel.

The class was great. Very long (although we ended a little early) which was a little rough but better than spreading it over two days because now I’m done!

We went from preparing cleaned fleece with combs to spinning it and then spinning roving and plying it into yarn. Then we wet set it and we were done!

I sort of snacked for lunch and was so hungry when I left! I stopped at a cute market called Dottie’s which I had wished I had known about before the class because they were open at 6 am and had a huge grab and go section. I got some PA style whoopie pies and potato salad and then picked up a sub from Jersey Mike’s right near my hotel.

I had never had Jersey Mike’s before but it was good. A very earnest young man made it very carefully and told me how much he loves working there.

I did not have the energy to drive around York looking for food again. It was a very well assembled sandwich.

This is my third trip in a year! I wish more businesses and restaurants were open in York but it was nice to get away and learn something new.