8/26/07

This chardonnay has an extra fruity bouquet



Yesterday Annie and I hopped in the car and went out looking for an adventure. We ended up visiting 2 playgrounds, an open house at an old ship and a firetruck. Before we got to that, Annie was patient enough to let me snoop around the old State Hospital grounds. I never paid attention to the media reports about developments going on up there. The Reader's Digest version is- The buildings that fostered the dark workings of an insane asylum are historical landmarks and are being preserved, updated and converted into an upscale community. As I drove around I found a deli, a couple wine tasting rooms and a coffee shop intertwined with the wrought iron gates and barred windows of the deserted sanitarium.

Does anybody else think that's a bad idea? Haven't we seen enough horror films to know better? I have enough to worry about without my wife getting extra crazy by drinking the enchanted brew of a coffee made in the electro therapy room of the "nervous hospital".

3 comments:

Geoff said...

I agree with you about the riskiness of this endevor :) :) but it is so cool they are not just letting it rot.

gg said...

Well, if a bunch of rich yuppie fudgies go crazy and start killing each other you can't exactly say that it would be a tragedy.

Geoff said...

Well said Ed

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. " -Hedley Lamarr