{"id":3838,"date":"2008-08-14T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:07:35","slug":"past-weekend-was-big-faranda-outdoors-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3838","title":{"rendered":"Past weekend was big Faranda outdoors weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well actually an extended weekend, counting Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Friday morning Mom, Dad, and Tim went on a 40 minute bike ride, out onto Croton point and then down along the waterfront to Senasqua Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553faafda8834-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553faafda8834-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553faafda8834-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553fab09b8834-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553fab09b8834-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553fab09b8834-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553df3d1f8833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553df3d1f8833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553df3d1f8833-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Friday evening Brigid finally got going with her kayak, which she&#8217;d gotten way back in December for her birthday. She went out with Rose Raffa and Hallie Flanagan-Wolfe (of push-ups on Sugarloaf mountain &nbsp;fame&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/03\/name-this-perso.html\"><font color=\"#810081\"><strong>Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Friday afternoon contest: Name this person and win $1 million!<\/strong><\/font><\/a> ). Tim was there to observe and help out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff74238834-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff74238834-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff74238834-500wi-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Hallie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f8168833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14066\" title=\"DSCF3364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f8168833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f8168833-500wi-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some instructions for Brigid, and then out of the Croton River, under the trestle, and into the Hudson. They were in the little Bay area, south of Croton Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f7758833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f7758833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f7758833-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f9a28833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f9a28833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e3f9a28833-500wi-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff772b8834-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff772b8834-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ff772b8834-500wi-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls were out for about ninety minutes. They got back to the launch point at the end of the railroad station parking lot in the dark, about 9:20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then on to Saturday &#8211; a Tim baseball game. Tim is on one of the two Croton summer travel teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ffac0d8834-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ffac0d8834-500wi.jpg 463w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ffac0d8834-500wi-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrolling the outfield. He&#8217;s actually a pretty good outfielder &#8211; zero errors all year, and made some difficult catches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e44e848833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e44e848833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553e44e848833-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had big plans for Sunday &#8211; or rather&nbsp;I did, since I put&nbsp;a Sunday jaunt together for the four of us. But the weather intervened and messed us up a bit, as we went up to the intersection of Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. Will do a separate post on the Sunday trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well actually an extended weekend, counting Friday. Early Friday morning Mom, Dad, and Tim went on a 40 minute bike ride, out onto Croton point and then down along the waterfront to Senasqua Park. Then Friday evening Brigid finally got going with her kayak, which she&#8217;d gotten way back in December for her birthday. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}