We don't have a wedding color...so deal with it!

Many things take a back seat, especially planning a wedding, when you are unemployed and looking for a new town to settle in. Josh and I are temporarily living on my folk's farmland in the Catskills. This is also where the wedding will take place. You would hardly know we are unemployed since we have been taking time to travel all over the East Coast, especially fitting in some rock climbing at some classic crags. At this time, we are in Baltimore with Josh's folks and hanging out with friends as we prepare for job interviews. We're really hoping to land jobs in Vermont, so cross your fingers and send good energy our way!

(Picture was taken a week ago. At the end of a 3-pitch climb on Lake George in the Adirondacks where we had our fill of drunk boaters watching us from below.)

We have also been busy helping my parents and other activists to inform people in the Catskill region about a fast tracked, horizontal natural gas drilling operation that will have horrible environmental impacts in the near future to the area. Although natural gas is a clean energy, extracting is a dirtier deal that impacts the health, economy, and environment (particularly drinking water and air) of many communities.

Planning the wedding seems to go in the right direction as Josh and I bumped into a tent vendor at the local county fair. Morris Tents seems to have a lot of tents and other event stuff; and it was nice to have a gay guy amidst a rural county to guide us through our planning. We sat with him last week and we made it clear that we were focused on the infrastructure of the wedding (tent, chairs, tables, rental equipment) since the where and when part were taken care of. One thing I said to the guy was, "don't ask me about my colors or my color scheme...frankly I don't care so long as we can make it all work with the landscape."(This is our wedding ceremony and reception site on my parent's farmland)
We showed the pictures of the wedding ceremony and reception site, which are only a few yards apart from one another. We hope to get married by the tree that is next to a pile of huge rocks in the middle of our pasture land. The reception will be on a flat area in the same open field. My family has a long history with the local dairy farmer down the road, who maintains our fields by cutting the grass and fertilizing it in exchange for the hay they produce from our land, which they give to their cows as well as sell. It's a simple exchange or bartering of services and in the end, our meadows look beautiful after a fresh cut. When Josh and I moved up to the farm, Roger came out to ask when our wedding was so that he could plan ahead for cutting our field. And we are deeply appreciative of his services.

We are a bit behind with sending out our Save the Date emails and developing our wedding website. Josh and I are already sketching up ideas for our wedding invitations. I also have my back-up wedding dress...and it is not white! So things are slowly in the works....but getting jobs is our bigger fish to fry.