New item for trade: a weekend in the Poconos
You know how when, late at night, you hear a little rustling outside and your first thought is, Crikey, it’s another home invasion! and you slam down your drink and grab the loaded shotgun you keep by the front door next to the kids’ school backpacks and just start blasting away into the dark? You know what? It doesn’t have to be that way. If you were up in the peaceful, gentle Poconos, that rustling might simply be a baby deer nibbling playfully at the foliage next to your driveway, and you could probably take him down just using a small-caliber handgun.
In our hurly burly everyday lives we forget about the slower pace of the mountains, and how much it can mean to recharge our batteries with even a short stay up where the air is fresh and the night sky is so stuffed with stars it looks like some kind of astral rash up there. But now it’s easy to get the heck out of Dodge, with the latest Tradeup item: a long weekend at a beautiful chalet vacation home in Big Bass Lake, a lakeside community with enough activities close by to keep the most Type A sicko in your family out of your hair for 72 hours, and yet quiet and isolated enough to allow you to forget for a short while how THE ECONOMY IS TANKING AND MY COMPANY IS SLASHING JOBS AND WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE EATING DOG FOOD OH MY GOD!!!!!
Wouldn’t that be nice? Think of something you can swap me for it, and it can be yours.
Thanks for this trade goes out to Karen Ulmer, a lawyer with a heart of gold and a vacation home of cedar, and also, now, with two Jimmy Buffett tickets. Karen’s practice includes family law and divorce, child custody and visitation, conflict coaching, and any number of other unpleasant issues. Her office is in Langhorne, PA and her website is worldwide.
