September 17. Drove another hour upstate to the distillery of our favorite whiskey. It’s all wooden sheds and a sort of garden under tall trees, picnic tables and lawn chairs around a fire pit. A food truck. There are fifteen different kinds of whiskey and vodka, all composed, enriched with a wide variety of flavors. The fact that we can buy this whiskey – only the basic variety, not the special compositions – in Newburgh is because they personally drop it off at the Liquor Store.

Watched a Tatort in the evening, twenty-five years old. J picks up more and more German words.