Juxtapositional seasons
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025Am I nuts or what? I want to talk about what I *think* are called “saddle seasons”, times of the year where popular vacation spots are not crowded. I am getting zilch from The Google. The results are mainly turning up stuff about horse saddles, which I couldn’t care less about, having not had particularly fun experiences riding horses in my life. And some sort of “Saddle Club” TV series. Am I using the wrong search term? Do I need to deploy some sort of AI search?
Aaargh. I tweaked my search terms and The Google turned up the correct phrase, which is “SHOULDER season”. Gah. My dear old brain came up with the tweaked search terms, not AI. I am not anti AI, just haven’t processed it yet and also think We The People need to be careful when using it. There’s enough dis/mis-information out there even without AI. AI is on the radar at work though so I may have to focus on it sometime soon.
So. It is mid May and the GG is at the moomincabin and it has been HOT up there. But. There are still a few bitsy little snow banks (piles) hanging about. Like this one by the propane tank. The propane tank and snow pile are in between two parking spaces. On the left is a small space that I often parked in throughout the years when my parents had a car in the actual driveway. To the right is a bigger parking space that fits two cars if necessary but also accommodates a car and trailer. When I was a kid, our Sherman friends would occupy this space with their VW bus and pop-up tent camper for a couple weeks each summer. Good times with their five kids. The Sherman dad grew up with my dad in Sault Ste. Siberia but drove from the New York state Niagara Falls area to visit us.
The Scamp trailer in the pic (the Lyme Lounge), is in the actual moomincabin driveway and beyond it is the front yard, the beach, and good old Gitchee Gumee.