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I still haven’t forgiven him.

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54 years ago this week my husband drove to upstate New York for a concert.

But not just any concert, no.

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He went to the greatest single musical event in rock and roll history. And since my husband is my husband, he took a look around, breathed in the heavily herbed air, didn’t like what he saw… and left.

Woodstock.

My husband went to Woodstock… and left.

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He didn’t see the Dead, Santana, or CSN.

He didn’t see Hendrix or Joplin or CCR.

I still can’t wrap my mind around it. And I swear if I had known this before we married it might have been a deal breaker.

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Miscellaneous snippets.

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A little bit of this and a whole lot of nothing.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten … taking a break from strolling to survey his domain.

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You either get it or you don’t.

My husband went to the original Woodstock, then turned around and left… saying it wasn’t his scene.

Clearly he didn’t get it.

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Book banning?

Huge pet peeve.

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Funny how that works.

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King Eider’s is a fun pub on the coast.

Their sign is always equally as fun.

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The treasure, or useless crap depending on your point of view.

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After a verrrrry long day at the antique mall from Hell my husband came home with relatively little in the way of treasure.

I was all for buying an antique wall phone to hang in the man cave and a vintage steamer trunk to use as a coffee table, but no. He wanted none of that.

His final purchases?

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An old wooden egg crate. Do we have egg laying chickens? No.

Moving on…

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The seven pieces of ephemera it took him two and a half hours to find.

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Did we need this classically decorated snake oil salesman’s card that claims to cure cholera?

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I think not, but we own it anyway.

Since my barn phone and steamer trunk were vetoed, I only came home with a handful of vinyl.

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Though one of my selections has a specific purpose.

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My husband went to Woodstock. The largest, greatest rock and roll event in history… he was there on day one.

For about half an hour. He walked around, didn’t like what he saw, and left. (If I had known this before we got married, it would have been a deal breaker.)

So because he turned his back on that once in a lifetime experience …. and kept me in that often cold and dark chicken barn antique mall all damned day…. I bought the original Woodstock album and will force him to listen to it. Over and over again, while I slaughter him in Scrabble.

It only seems fair.

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Mountains, foliage and a little food.

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When you exit the Kancamagus Highway…

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You find yourself in the town of Woodstock, and when you’re in Woodstock?

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You have to visit the Woodstock Inn and Brewery.

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Of course if you visit this time of year.. you can expect to search endlessly for a parking spot, be unable to sit outside due to the high crowd volume, and find that the only indoor space available are two stools at the end of the bar.

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The brewery is a funky place, filled with all kinds interesting eye candy.

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But it was extremely crowded as well as extremely loud, so we decided to have a drink and an appetizer and be on our way.

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Pomegranate margarita and some fabulous duck wontons with sweet Thai chili sauce for me.

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And a French onion soup so loaded with cheese for the husband I thought he’d never get through it.

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After our snack we headed to Franconia Notch…

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Where the fall color was a bit past peak but still impressive.

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Trees.

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Fall leaves.

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And mountains.

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No narrative required.

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It’s that time again…

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I hadn’t checked my spam folder in a while and boy, was it bursting.

Let’s take a look.

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This was interesting since it was posted on my blog about Woodstock. If the new scheme of their community is peace, love and drugs?

They’re a little late.

 

 

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This was on my post about baby woodchucks.

And while I appreciate the compliment, I wasn’t aware the subject had been written on that extensively.

 

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Clearly this spammer enjoyed my post about the Red Rocks of Sedona, and who could blame him? Shame he doesn’t know how to spell…

 

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I imagine she looks something like this:

 

 

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One has to wonder who this spammer’s previous roommate was and why he constantly preached about the Suc It product I blogged about.

Best or worse? You decide…

 

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And finally there’s this one, which was a little too spot on… even for me.

It was posted on my previous blog about spam:  Monty Python and Spam….

 

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Well….

They were close.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Woodstock revisited.

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I posted about the 50th anniversary Woodstock concert the other day…

Peace, love…. and no thanks.

How my husband went to the original, and left.

How I was toddling around the backyard waiting to grow up and deride him mercilessly for it.

This Woodstock anniversary concert will never capture the spirit of the first.

It can’t.

Those days are gone, and so are the hippies.

To be honest, there isn’t much peace and brotherhood left either.

So if you experienced the original or like me, just wished you’d been old enough to….

Here’s an article I found that sums it up pretty well:

 

 

33 Pictures That Show How Insanely Cool The Original Woodstock Was

Woodstock ’94 was fine, whatever.

 

No offense but it wasn't memorable. My brother said Green Day performed there or something.

 

No offense but it wasn’t memorable. My brother said Green Day performed there or something.

Woodstock ’99 was a gross shit-show disaster.

 

 At the time, MTV said, and I quote:

“The air smelled of burning garbage, as well as urine and feces.”

 

 

And with news that Woodstock is coming back for the 50th anniversary this year,

 

 

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I thought it was fitting to revisit the original Woodstock.

 

1. The first Woodstock took place over 3 days in August 1969.

 

 

2. 50,000 people were expected…but nearly 1 million showed up.

 

3. People were sleeping in cemeteries.

 

4. But, somehow, SOMEHOW, it didn’t devolve into a Fyre Fest shit storm.

 

I mean, to be honest, there was 1 toilet per 833 people. Also, two people died. One got ran over by a tractor, the other was a drug overdose, sooo yeah.

 

I mean, to be honest, there was 1 toilet per 833 people. Also, two people died. One got ran over by a tractor, the other was a drug overdose, sooo yeah.

5. Everyone was naked, and also pretty hot.

 

6. Naked…and hot.

 

7. There were hippies on poles.

 

8. Hippies on cars.

 

9. Hippies making hot dogs.

 

 

10. Hippies strung out under umbrellas.

 

11. Hippies sleeping on cars.

 

12. Hippies feeding babies watermelon.

 

13. Hippies cleaning up trash.

 

14. Just so many hippies.

 

15. Everyone looked like they worked at Urban Outfitters.

 

16. *Glares at you while you shop*

 

17. Everyone looked like what the people who go to Coachella aspire to look like…

 

 

18. …except these people didn’t go for new content for their Instagrams.

 

19. Vanessa Hudgens wishes

20. Shia LaBeouf could only hope.

 

21. There were weed stands.

 

22. There were dirty toe rings.

 

23. Cool hats.

 

24. Jeans for $5.

 

25. Have I mentioned all the hot naked people?

 

 

26. Volunteers were making food for everyone.

 

 

 

27. This man put a chair on his head.

 

 

28. She got stuck in mud.

 

 

29. In an impressive display of teamwork and grace, these people balanced cardboard on their heads.

 

30. A woman that literally could be from 2019.

 

31. Basically, this might be the only time in history a music festival was cool.

 

32. The one, the only, the legendary: Woodstock ’69.

 

 

 

33. Instagram ruins everything.

 

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Peace, love…. and no thanks.

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It’s been a long running joke in our marriage that my husband went to Woodstock ….

(Yes, the original. And yes, he’s that old)

Took a look around, and left.

 

 

Left!

Left the greatest live musical event in history!

 

 

 

I know, that was my reaction too.

The joke is,  had I known this disturbing piece of information before we got married… it would have been a deal breaker.

In August of 1969, when the counter culture was doing this?

 

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And listening to this?

 

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I was…

 

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Yeah. Walking the dog with some sassy red kicks.

Needless to say, I was too young to attend.

So years later, when I heard my beloved other half say Woodstock  “wasn’t his scene”, and that he had hitch hiked to New York that August, joined the throngs of hippies walking to the concert, “saw a bunch of half naked people dancing and smoking dope” and decided to leave?

 

 

A little piece of me died.

I would have killed to be there. Rain, mud et al.

In my  hippie days of the late 70’s, the closest I got was following the Dead around New England… or going to the Claremont Music Festival in New Hampshire. We camped out, we smoked weed, it rained… but it still wasn’t Woodstock.

And now, in August 2019 on the 50th anniversary? There’s another Woodstock brewing.

I was thrilled!

The husband even agreed to go!

 

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(Probably just to shut me up about the first one, but who cares!)

And then I saw the list of performers.

 

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And while a few of the original artists will be there…. Santana, Fogerty from CCR, Country Joe McDonald and David Crosby  (no, I’m not counting Dead and Company with John Mayer. Please! Without Jerry, they’re not the Dead)…. scanning the list made me want to cry.

Soccer Mommy? Pussy Riot? Amigo the Devil?

Damn. I must be old, because I don’t know half of these groups. And while I love the Black Keys, Dawes, The Lumineers, and a handful of others? My need for more classic rock, folk or blues from back in the day makes me think to hell with it. You can’t go home again.

And apparently you can’t go back to Max Yasgur’s farm either because the event is being held 150 miles away in Watkins Glen.

At the race track.

With a limited amount of tickets because they’re worried about traffic jams.

Traffic jams?

Good god.

There’s even an app.

 

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Peace, love and music?

I doubt it. The Millennials have taken over and it will probably be merchandised to within an inch of it’s life and have more to do with profit than peace and brotherhood.

Sigh…

Sorry husband. It looks like you’re still going to have to take my crap about leaving the first one.

And rightfully so.