We’ve partially planned the next leg of the trip, in which we will explore New England and Nova Scotia.  Because it is in the 90s and humid now, we decided to stick to the coast in an effort to get cooler temperatures and ocean breezes.  We will therefore first head East along the coast of Connecticut. Our first stop will be Weir Farm National Historic Site, and it turns out the Junior Ranger program there involves letterboxing, so Trish and B made new letterboxing stamps:

Since the visitor center at Weir Farm is only open Wednesday through Sunday, we will linger here one more day before heading out.

Today was the fast day of Tisha B’Av. It was difficult and long, as is it every year.

This evening, Trish recovered her guitar from the house, and is taking it with us on the next leg of our trip.  Look out, John Denver:

Today we did homeschool as well as more work on the house, including screwing down some loose deck boards:

In the afternoon, I rode with Moshe partway to Brooklyn, where he and his family are spending Shabbos:

Good Shabbos from Monsey, NY!

Well actually it’s a transfer station, since trash generated here is actually trucked or floated to landfills in other states.  The truck anchors arrived today, so this afternoon I was able to tarp and lash down the load and very carefully drive it to the transfer station.  I was considering a modification to the bike rack when I looked up an realized what a nice parking spot we have, for suburban New York:

I spent most of the day running Ethernet to one of the bedrooms.  Thankfully, each wall already had an empty box with conduit going up to the attic, so it was just a matter of running wire down the appropriate conduit and then down into the wiring cabinet, punching it down to a bridge line to the cabinet on the other side of the house, then punching down the outlet in the bedroom and crimping on a connector on the other end to plug into the router.  Tedious, but straightforward:

This afternoon I rode with Moshe and David.  Getting back to riding a few times a week like I was doing before we left town was easy, it’s the getting back in the condition I was in before the trip that’s tough: