{"id":12712,"date":"2023-08-17T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:06:32","slug":"a-week-in-worcester-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/a-week-in-worcester-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in Worcester MA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first week in residence at the home of Ray – Jett’s brother – and his wife, Kim, was mostly spent getting settled – shopping, washing clothes, etc – and enjoying not driving much (though I still had to get behind the wheel every day). Except for the first day when I spent the afternoon with Ray, I was mostly alone. The weather was unsettled. I got a sunny afternoon to play disc golf at Lake Tully<\/a> but my trip to Kimball Farm<\/a> to get a fried haddock bite dinner (superb!) was overcast. I was startled by a tornado warning one morning but no tornado materialized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kimball Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Haddock bites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hole 7 “pin”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The view from the first tee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The big event, though, was three days at Ray and Kim’s cabin in New Salem MA, on the edge of the Quabbin Reservoir<\/a> watershed. It is a serene setting, with constant activity at the hummingbird feeders. We took a 4-mile was to\/from the reservoir one afternoon – good exercise that I sorely needed. And Kim – a fantastic cook – kept me well-fed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hummingbird, through the screen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Quabbin Reservoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stuffed shells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the last day at the cabin we buried Rusty’s ashes next to Cha-Cha and Grace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roses on Kim’s table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rusty’s final resting place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ray and I also made a trek to the Tree House Brewery<\/a> in Deerfield MA to sample some fine craft beers. We had 48 to choose from. I had a peanut butter chocolate stout that was fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tap room at Tree House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the 48 pulls at the bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ray with his selection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first week in residence at the home of Ray – Jett’s brother – and his wife, Kim, was mostly spent getting settled – shopping, washing clothes, etc – and enjoying not driving much (though I still had to get behind the wheel every day). Except for the first day when I spent the afternoon … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,8,4,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-places-ma","category-places","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3j2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions\/12728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}