The Cost of Autumn

Ben and I took Lara to the mountains this weekend, where we rented a lakefront house with a good friend from college and his fiancee.

$150, Our half of the house for two nights, which is really not bad. It had a hammock and everything, even if it was too cold to get in it. We all had our own bedrooms, including baby Lara.

$35, groceries from the local organic crunchy Berkshire coop, including local, free-range, grass-fed happy lamb sausage, and local organic lemon ricotta ice cream.

$0, veg. Our Cambridge friends brought lots of their farm share vegetables with them.

$6, one dozen free-range, local farm organic eggs. I’ve never paid that much for eggs.

$1, Diet Coke from the “package and variety store” that sold everything un-local and un-organic, like jerky and beer.

$75, Colombian dinner for five in a nearby town called Pittsfield in the middle of their Halloween parade, so with local organic crunchy children in costumes going by. Money well spent.

$0, Duraflame log for the fireplace. Came with the house.

Ester Bloom lives in Brooklyn.

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