![]() ![]() Today I celebrate forty with ANOTHER landmark–I started my left sleeve at thirty, so my husband will start my right sleeve for me this afternoon, at forty. We now own a shop and a house, four dogs, and a crazy wonderful, often hectic, life. A love for the craft that would eventually become a large part of my world.įast forward ten years: I met another tattoo artist in NYC, fell in love, and we decided to start a life together. No more of that shit for me…I marked thirty with my first quality tattoo, and it started something I didn’t expect. Even before I was a tattoo wife, I had learned proper protocol by getting a couple of shitty, walk in, spur of the moment tattoos. Like a good tattoo client, I did my research, found a shop and artist in NYC that I liked (Nic at Sacred did my tattoo, and we have actually run into each other at a convention or two since!), had my consult, left my deposit, and signed a contract to get tattooed for my thirtieth birthday. I had a couple of very small tattoos at the time, but wanted a Celtic tree of life with an Elvish phrase, marking my moves, accomplishments, and journeys. I had accomplished a major coup, moving myself through a company in order to get from Orlando to Long Island and finally Manhattan! I decided to mark my move into my thirties by getting a tattoo. So, when I was on the verge of turning thirty, I had finally realized my life dream of living in NYC. I’ll be attending some local happenings on that front, so stay tuned! October is going to be fun, and fall is the best time of year to be in this area, in my humble BoozyWife opinion…that’s why we tend to stay local until the snow flies again…. This coming weekend (October 3rd and 4th) is the Apple Festival in Ithaca, with FLX Cider Week also kicking off. The movement is growing nationwide, and the Finger Lakes area is at the center of high quality, heirloom farmed fruits, classically made, dry to off-dry, sometimes fermented in bottle, hard apple and pear ciders. ![]() ![]() It’s also fun to see the apple farmers harvesting for their upcoming vintages of hard ciders. Hopefully it dries out so that everyone gets their remaining crops in! Our local weather called for over three inches of rain into today, with more over the weekend. My Instagram feed is currently full of grapes being pressed, yeasts going in and fermentation starting, and lots of rain gear the last twenty four hours! It’s been dry and warm the last two weeks, so many growers got their grapes in before rains started in earnest. Harvest 2015 is in full swing, with lots of grape picking, pressing, and cellar happenings currently in the works, area wide. ![]()
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