Monday, July 19th, 2010...11:16 pm
Do not swim alone.
You can’t really get the full effect unless you view this in my mother’s signature Comic Sans — and I don’t have the energy right now to upload the message as a screenshot or figure out how to code it in that font — but, seriously, how cute is she?
from: Jane and Art
to: Bess Jankowski
date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:47 PM
subject Re: awesome/easy recipe I just inventedHi Bess. We will actually be in CT from Wed. - Thursday so just take my car. That way you’ll have it at the lake for when you are ready to come back down the mountain.
As for the lake - There is plenty of food there so you should go there first and then go to Rock Hill if you still need anything. I left homemade lasagna & chicken, veggies (lots), milk, OJ, eggs, English muffins, bagels, etc. there for you. You really shouldn’t have to buy anything.
There are keys on my keyring for the shed & cabin.
Do not swim alone.
Wear a life preserver if you go out in a boat.
Water pump switch is inside the shed door to the right.
Hot water tank switch is under the sink on the back wall to the left - push up.
Coffee pot plugs into the stove. If you use the toaster, unplug the coffee pot.
If there is a rain storm, make sure any open windows are closed if it’s blowing in.Print this out and take it with you
Call us at Deb and Jamie’s if you need us. We’ll be home on Thursday afternoon and will probably head up to the lake on Friday afternoon/evening.
Have fun / relax!
Love,
Mom
P.S. I actually did swim alone the last time I was at the lake by myself, and it freaked me the eff out. I was certain I’d spot a snake along the waterfront and just immediately go into cardiac arrest and drown.
Commentary
July 20th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Silly you - you can’t have a cardiac arrest and THEN drown-you’d drown first causing your arrest. But I digress, I’m totally envious you have such a cool place to escape to and both the time and motivation to do it. Hiking/camping in the Catskills or Adirondacks has been a favorite way for me to relax, but alas these days the more stressed I get, the less time I have to unwind. Enjoy your time outdoors, and be bold: swim alone (with a life preserver), lol! Take some photos while you’re at it so that those of us less fortunate can still daydream…
July 21st, 2010 at 10:15 am
Do not run with scissors.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Tara, I should have phoned you from the landline at the lake (you’re the only person whose mobile # I have memorized, after all, since I used to have to be able to call you from, like, a payphone in Madison Square Park at any given time in 2003/4 or whenever I was boycotting having a cell phone) and demanded that you come visit this weekend. Next time I will, and I’m only going to let my mother talk your ear off about knitting for about three minutes, and then we will Have Some Fun™.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Harold, we have this awesome, old Victorian-era (seriously, it might actually date back that far) “life preserver,” which is basically just this football-sized piece of styrofoam (or the Victorian-era equivalent thereof) with a rope attached to it. You tie it around a baby’s waist, I guess, and hook it in the front. Let me see if I can find a picture of it online… it’s phenomenal.
July 26th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
“Phoned” you from the “landline” on your “mobile.” You might be Fake Britisher tm than 90’s era Madonna.
I sure hope that came out as a superscript.
July 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Fake Britisher tm
July 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Still nothing.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:33 am
“Might be Fake Britisher™ than 90’s era Madonna.”
= new quote for the “praise” section of my book, along with Furstie’s “Doesn’t sound like she wants to blow up a church on the phone.”
Thank you!
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