what Ive been doin.

not so much bumming of late, last Friday i headed up to new york with my father to visit his family, and didnt get back till Tuesday. im just staying at the house for a few days till i go back down to Richmond on Friday for the weekend.

but anywho, more on new york. we (my father, his brother steve, and me) pretty much went up to do some yard work and help out my grandmother a little bit, she is kinda going crazy, and like most old people, doesnt understand how to do most things (banking, computers, whatever miscellaneous modern thing.)

we broke all that up by visiting with other family, that Saturday was spent with my father's uncle bob (one of them, dads mothers brother) who has a house up in the mountains, and is prolly the leading expert on the paths up there (he wrote a book on em, a link to which is now in my 'links' section.) his daughter and son (dads cousins) were there too.

i dont really ever see any of them in a casual setting (anything but funerals and weddings) so it was pretty cool just to hang out and do a little lite hiking with everyone.

later we visited some of dads childhood friends, many of which still live in the area, i met steves beau sandy, who was a lot of fun to bicker with, and had breakfast with his other uncle bob (fathers brother,) who then took us on a lottery ticket run. i got some mega millions numbers, didnt take the 37 mill, maybe next time.

all the while i was strumming away on my mandolin, im getting pretty good at that thing nowadays. (ill come to your house and play up an down the major scales for a few bucks. for a few more, you may get Greensleeves!)

but yeah not all the details, but this is a blog about bumming, and none of that was bumming, so youre lucky you got any of it!