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naplobomo 2017 - Day Twelve
Nov. 12th, 2017 10:49 pmThanks, spotify. Now my husband has super easy access to all the crap music he likes to
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So yes! We went to the Corning Museum of Glass! It might sound boring to you, but (1) it's not and (2) it's totally not - there's beautiful stuff too! They demonstrate, among other cool things, glass blowing, glass moulding, and glass breaking! Yeah, that's right - glass breaking. If you've been doing it wrong all this time, they've got you covered. (As my readers will know, I am super geeky, and I'm married to a materials scientist, who is also super geeky, so between to two of us, we have mad super geekery skilz.)
The buildings themselves are beautiful and none too surprisingly incorporate a lot of windows. The grounds are beautiful too and would have been great to explore had it been less chilly. My favourite display was... the Christmas tree! It's comprised of over 2000 hand-blown ornaments and is very impressive. I also really liked this Tiffany window, which is stunning. The gift shop, through which one must obviously exit, is huge and full of very pretty and very breakable stuff, much of which I'd like to own but none of which I bought.
My only quibble with the place? Corning, whither the CorningWare/Pyrex? There was some mention of it, and I know you spun/sold a lot of it off, but COME ON! It's iconic! It's friggin' CorningWare.
Anyway, if your are ever in the Corning part of the USA, make a visit. Not only is the surrounding area picturesque and full of cows, but the museum is filled with fascinating objects. And glass. Lots of glass.
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Didn't do too much today - it was dark and cold out and my get up and go had gotten up and left. Hard frost last night turned everything left in the garden to mush ( cuz, you know, it's NOVEMBER and you should have cleaned everything up A MONTH AGO!) so I helped get some of that cleaned up. There is, not exactly unexpectedly, more to do.
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I am going to go to bed. This being awake stuff is for the birds.
