tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26411158616890976552024-03-13T11:32:01.428-07:00Bob's GournelRossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-35910956016492487742020-05-15T11:49:00.000-07:002020-05-15T11:49:10.823-07:00Escape from CoronavirusI haven't used this blog in a few years, but think I just might start again. And this time use it as a diary of my "Life in Lockdown."<br />
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Inspiration for this came in an email I got today from one of my sainted spouses former college roommates. Ann lives in Michigan and sent me this. . . <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Apologies to Dr. Seuss*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Condolences….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s NOT your day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’re confined to your house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can’t get away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Though there’s brains in your head,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Could be germs on your shoes;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So you can’t steer yourself to any place that you choose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’re NOT on your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don’t know what you know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Governor’s the gal who’ll decide where you’ll go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t look up or down streets -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gov doesn’t care;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because all she can say is, “NO, you CANNOT go there!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there are streets that you cannot go down,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You might want to head straight out of town,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Up north, to the lake to the wide open air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where fresh breezes blow; folks were friendlier there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“NO! NO!” says the Gov that’s a thing you can’t do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My executive orders are smarter than you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m the smart one in town. I know ALL there’s to know;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I’ll make the list of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Places you CANNOT go!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh the places you cannot go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s no fun to be done; No points to be scored; No games to be won;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No skating on ice; No bouncing of balls;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No batting, No racing, and No teeing off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No fun thing you can do that might involve others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heaven forbid you should visit your mother!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can’t go to restaurants, theaters or bars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can't even ride with strangers in cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alone, all alone - like it or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alone is something you’ve been quite a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when you’re alone there’s a very good chance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that virus could scare you right out of your pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lockdown drags on at a bone grinding pace </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With nowhere to go but to….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitmer’s Waiting Place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i>*</i></span></b><span style="color: #222222;">Whitmer’s Waiting Place...for people just… waiting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting in long lines for some food to go, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the buses to run, for a garden to hoe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toilet paper to come, or the snow to finally go,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting around for a “Yes” - not a “NO”,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watching helplessly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As your hair continues to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can’t go to school. Who cares if you learn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can't even visit the bottle return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No libraries are open - you can't read their books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your grey roots are showing - too bad how it looks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gov needs reminding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Life’s a Balancing Act</span></div>
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And so ends my journey of remembrance. I head on over to New Jersey tomorrow (Thursday) to say my goodbye to sis-in-law Liz, Rick, and niece Aimee and family. I fly out of Newark early Friday and will be back home in Alameda in time for dinner that day. It's been a whirlwind 2 weeks and 2 days for me. It's been fun, but I don't know that I'll be able to keep doing this every year any more. NY and L.I. just aren't the places that they used to be. My memory of what it <i><u>was</u></i> like is better than my perception of what it IS now. Time will tell if I'll be making these trips every year, as I've done for the past 3 years. I'm doubting that I will. I am a Californian now, and the lyrics to my new home state's song ring in my ears. . . Especially the LAST VERSE:<br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-20446779966892390222017-11-29T21:50:00.003-08:002018-10-01T21:55:43.144-07:00Tuesday, November 28th. . . The Today Show. . . I was there. And saw Matt Lauer in his last appearance there.So on Tuesday morning I was up at 3:30am to hop aboard a Long Island Railroad train, along with plenty of policemen, firemen, and building maintenance people who commute daily at that ungodly hour... But _I_ was on my way to join the crowd outside The Today Show studio in Rockefeller Center.<br />
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Little did I know that it would turn out to be Matt Lauer's last day on that show. HE knew it. NBC had given him his "walking papers" on Monday, according to the news reports that came out on Wednesday morning (Hey! Wednesday was _today_!). But his co-stars Hoda, Savannah, and Al supposedly didn't know anything about it until minutes before today's show began.<br />
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<b>And she shouted back "Yayyyy! Another Californian! From ALAMEDA, eh?"</b><br />
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Today I got a haircut and beard trim at Pat's Barber Shop in Hicksville, my old barber place, then visited some old friends and co-workers at my old Civil Service job. The particular civil service agency of which I speak doesn't allow photos to be taken on the premises. Pat, at the barber shop didn't mind if I took _his_ photo tho. He's the Boss there, and has been for about 40 years now, but he still trims hair just like all the other guys. . .</div>
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Kahn was the man whom "Mr. Monopoly" - of the Monopoly game - was modeled after. A well-to-do Wall Street Banker in the Roaring 20s.</div>
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Here's the view of some of the rooms and of some of the outdoors around the place. Our tour guide, Laura, said it is the 2nd largest - by the building's square footage - mansion in the country. According to her only Vanderbilt's Biltmore in Asheville NC is larger.</div>
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The place has 42 rooms for use as a hotel, as well as catering facilities for weddings and big events:</div>
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It is the largest privately-owned mansion in the country. It's owner, Gary Melius, a building contractor, made it his life's ambition to restore it after it had "run into hard times" in the 1980s. He lives on the premises in a private suite there. In my opinion, he did an excellent job and performed a great service to the people in the area around the mansion.</div>
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I'd spent a few days there during the month's between my Eleanor's parting and my decision in early 2012 to become a volunteer docent there. It is a peaceful and serene place, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life on Long Island and in NYC. . .</div>
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Dunno how so many bikes got here. No cars are allowed on Fire Island other than in the Robert Moses State Park's parking lots. The 30 or so towns on F.I. are travelled by bike and bike only. Maybe these ones were left behind over this past summer. . .<br />
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I felt at ease in the "job" of "keeper of the light". . . or as _I_ used to call the Fresnel Lens, "Old Blinky." It was fun to educate kids when they came there on school Field Trips. . .<br />
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Amazing. . . . Much of it was sketches of his plans for paintings. Some of it was his plans for sculptures and there were even a few actual sculptures. . .<br />
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Oh, yes. . . .<br />
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More sketches. There were over 300. I took photos of only an infinitesimal fraction of them. Here's only a few of the ones I _took_:<br />
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I learned that Michaelangelo wasn't the guy who did the LAYOUT for the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. . .<br />
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Ummm. . . The shadowy figure is _me_. My selfie didn't come out too well. God punished me for being so obnoxious as to get in the way of one of His favorite works. . .<br />
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I thought this was interesting. The biggest of the sketches in the exhibit:<br />
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A parting photo of the place. We sat on the steps for awhile to get over our amazement and to wait for our cab ride back to Penn Station. We were highly entertained by a street musician when he - on his sax - played "If You're Happy and You Know It". . . . He gathered up about 20 or so folks like us on the steps who stood, clapped our hands, stomped our feet, and shouted Hooray! His encore performance was to slowly play Brahm's Lullaby as a dad brought his toddler daughter - in her stroller - up to watch. The fun never ends in NYC.<br />
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As we drove past the Tree in Rockefeller Plaza that day. . . . It wouldn't be lit until the following Wednesday. . .<br />
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Atlas. . . On the 5th Avenue side of Rockefeller Center. . .<br />
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The Stephen Colbert CBS Theater was just down the block from where we had lunch that day. . .<br />
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Piper, Meredith, Michael, and Gabbi. . .<br />
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Doing "the tourist thing" in Times Square. . .<br />
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The Columbus Circle monument. News has it that Native Americans have lately solidified their objections to it and want it torn down as soon as possible. Tho it has been standing there for maybe 100 years or so. . . A "work of art" from a bygone era, perhaps. . .<br />
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The Franks outside The Lion King theater. . .<br />
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To be continued. . . .Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-67184938483040992092017-11-27T16:56:00.001-08:002017-11-27T18:06:54.862-08:00The Annual "East Coast Tour". . . 1st Leg of the Trip, Wednesday 11/15/17 up to Thanksgiving at Liz'sSo I left Alameda on afternoon of Wednesday, November 15, heading for son Michael's place in South Carolina.<br />
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Arrived Columbia SC airport at 9:30am Thursday, November 16th. . .<br />
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Mikey's home. But he wasn't home. . . He was at work when I got there.<br />
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So I walked around and took a few pictures. . . .<br />
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That Friday was Movie Night at Michael's school. . . . ELF<br />
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Saturday, we went downtown to the weekly Farmers Market on Main Street. I noticed the banners celebrating the University of South Carolina's Girl's basketball team being the winners of the National Championship. . . .<br />
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This guy played one HECK of a wailing sax!<br />
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Chain-link?!<br />
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Everything was being sold at the Farmers Market. . . .<br />
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Mikey. . .<br />
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A well-decorated sewing machine. . .<br />
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NO thank you. . . .<br />
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State Capitol dome is just a block away from the last of the Farmers Market tents. . .<br />
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Wait a minute! Tho we are in the East, I don't see any BAY here. But I _know_ where there's an East Bay. . .<br />
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This was for sale at Farmers Market. Similarity with today's politics is _uncanny_. (Blow it up and read it.)<br />
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Resting my weary bones at Farmers Market on Main Street in Columbia, SC:<br />
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Nice ride!<br />
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Mikey's front license plate. . . . His RAFT is on it. . .<br />
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Dinner with Piper, Meredith, Michael, and Gabbi on evening of Monday, November 20th, at California Dreaming restaurant in Columbia, SC. . .<br />
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Then, on Tuesday evening, we left for New York. Stopped over on Tuesday night in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and continued on our way to my sis-in-law's in New Jersey on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday - the day before Thanksgiving - "From Atlantic to Pacific, oh, the traffic was terrific."<br />
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Ya cain't get they'ah from he-yah. . . .<br />
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26 minutes turned out to be 49 minutes instead. . . .<br />
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Running very late, it seemed as if Washington was "giving us the finger."<br />
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George was bigger than Thomas. . .<br />
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We drove late into the night. . . I think that this was at toll booths just before the Baltimore Mid-Harbor Tunnel. . .<br />
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Our 1st morning in NJ, Thanksgiving, we had breakfast at the Saddle Brook Diner. The "drive-in mural" with the Jumbo screen TV in it impressed me. . .<br />
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Got to Liz's later that morning. . .<br />
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She's had this toy for YEARS, and has NEVER opened it. . .<br />
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Charleigh is ready for dessert!<br />
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VERY ready for dessert!<br />
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Family of the year!<br />
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Some "squatters" made themselves at home on the dockside crane at the SS Red Oak Victory ship. . . Momma and Poppa Osprey. Poppa was on one of the cables, keeping a watchful eye out.<br />
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Being whistled aboard:<br />
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Something most people - including myself - would not know. I have a new-found appreciation for an old friend who served aboard a supply ship during Vietnam War.<br />
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She's a bit rusty. She really should be preserved, being one of only three remaining.<br />
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Jeff, our guide I learned, lives nearly next-door to me in Alameda in Ballena Bay.<br />
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The view of The Pretty City across the Bay from the stern:<br />
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Took them about a week to load up using the cargo cranes. Unlike the few hours it takes nowadays using containerized ships.<br />
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The drydocks where the Victory Ships and Liberty Ships and others - a total of 747 ships during the years 1942 to 1945 - were built are still THERE, but re-purposed for other uses.<br />
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It applies to Dads as well. :-)<br />
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The Engine Room. 6,000 horsepower all going into a single-propeller.<br />
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Next stop on the tour was the assembly plant, around the bend. . . . Owned by Ford Motors, where many Jeeps, tanks, and other wartime vehicles were manufactured for the war.<br />
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We had lunch at the aptly named "Assemble" restaurant. And then went into the museum. . . .<br />
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THIS made an impression on ME. The PIN caught my eye FIRST. Republic Aircraft Company is long gone from Farmingdale, New York, near where I grew up. . . . but the airfield and the American Airpower Museum are there now. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt airplane had the largest number of planes built during the war - 15,660, per Wikipedia. There must have been a lot of Rosie The Riveters THERE besides at this western end of the country.<br />
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Replica of a JEEP, all packaged up and ready to be parachuted. . . .<br />
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Must have been a huge operation. . . .<br />
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Kids saved scrap metal during WWII:<br />
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Just an interesting photo of some folks. . . . <br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-55327386154040436252017-04-21T20:11:00.000-07:002017-04-21T20:11:11.784-07:00Fast Times At San Simeon HighWent to a nice place on a hilltop a bit south of home recently. The owner of these digs was a weeeee taddddd bit of a "conspicuous consuption-ite" I'd say. I'm imagining what it'd have been like if the owner of this spread had won in his bid for political power, and parlayed it all the way to the White House as the historians who guided my friend and I thru this, his Castle, told us he'd planned to do. Donald Trump eat your heart out!<br />
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We're here to party!<br />
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The outdoor pool is undergoing renovation. . . . I didn't bring my trunks anyway.<br />
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EVERYONE needs a RA-The-Sun-God on their patio. . . .<br />
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The tapestries in the Main Hall were impressive:<br />
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As were the tapestries in the Main Dining Room:<br />
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Ceiling in the Dining Room:<br />
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The tapestry titled "The Hunt for the Stag" reminded me of several I saw that looked very very similar to it, only titled "The Hunt for the Unicorn" at The Cloisters in upper Manhattan. I want to do some research and see if they are somehow related or at least by the same artist. The tour guide was familiar with The Hunt for the Unicorn tapestries and said "Yes, they are similar, but I don't know if they are part of the same series of tapestries or even if they are by the same artist."<br />
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The <i>indoor</i> pool looked like it was in much better shape than the outdoor one. . . .<br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-79974441542226110132017-04-08T17:09:00.000-07:002017-04-08T17:09:38.220-07:00They're with the Government and are Here to Help You. . . .J&J and I went downtown this afternoon to the Big Truck Bonanza. . . . A fun time in the Alameda Police Department's parking lot across the street from the public library. The boys got to climb all over all kinds of trucks and government vehicles. . . .<br />
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Wow! LOOK at all this stuff! Where will we START?<br />
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Red is their favorite color:<br />
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Ring-a-ding-ding. . .<br />
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Teddy digs it. . . .<br />
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Calling all cars, calling all cars. . . . be on the lookout for a pair of desperadoes who just stole one of our Alameda P.D. patrol cars. Suspects go by names of Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.<br />
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Charlie got a thrill out of walking on the bumper.<br />
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Getting into the "pothole paver" truck. . . .<br />
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A Jeep made out of LEGOs?<br />
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Yep!<br />
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And PLENTY of LEGOs to add to it!<br />
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A fun time was had by all. . . .<br />
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I want to go there. But <b>I</b> want to go THERE!<br />
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A little bit of burnout after so much excitement. . . .<br />
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After the fun in the P.D. parking lot, we went to Jim's Coffee Shop, next block over, for lunch. . . . And did some serious art-work while waiting for the chicken nuggets:<br />
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It was a great way to spend a few hours today.Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-3706937965440632442017-01-04T16:41:00.002-08:002017-01-04T16:41:16.553-08:00The Whirlwind Trip South from Orlando. . . .So I headed south from Orlando last Wednesday. Stopped in Delray Beach on the way to have Lunner (combo Lunch and Dinner at 3:30pm) with my former (now retired) boss, Karen Treder. I had a couple of Cuba Libres and she a couple Margaritas after the meal and we caught up on what's been happening in our lives over the last 4 years, since we last met.<br />
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The quilts were very impressive. . . .</div>
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Amazingly, they even put this "toilet bowl" as a design on one! Just kidding. (I'd just been to the Guggenheim Museum in September, and I really do like its architecture, so I was really impressed...)<br />
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One more nice thing on display there was a huge dollhouse. Custom built, but UNLIKE the one I'd built for my daughter Beth some years ago, a wee tad BIGGER:</div>
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On the way back to Jane's, I took a snapshot of one of her neighbors' places. The Goodyear Blimp's hangar, just a few blocks away. The newest version of it was only introduced last year and is quite a bit bigger than the earlier one. They had to expand the hangar a lot to make her fit. She wasn't outside today. . . . maybe "indoors" or on an assignment?</div>
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And so concluded my trip to the Sunshine State. I returned to the Golden State refreshed and raring to go! (Actually, I was in need of a "vacation from my vacation". . . .)</div>
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(Cylindrical Stanley was all ready to go before any of the rest of us.)<br />
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. . . .and we headed down the road a piece to go to a Perkins Restaurant for breakfast and to say our goodbyes. . . . Mikey, Meredith and the girls headed back to South Carolina, and I headed south to visit old friends.<br />
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I stopped along the way to Pompano Beach in Delray Beach and met my Boss, Karen, from my stint at DMV some years back. Karen has been fully retired and enjoying life here in Florida for the past several years. Many of my and her friends from the old job often come to visit her, especially at this time of year when New York is an "iceberg" compared to here. She's a wonderful person, one of the best bosses I've ever had. We went to "Deck 84" an open-air restaurant right on the Intercoastal Waterway in downtown Delray Beach, as we did about 4 years ago when I was here last. We chewed the fat and caught up on our news for about 2 and a half hours, over Margharitas and Cuba Libres. . . .<br />
(Yes, I'm back to imbibing once again. . . . but on a much more limited basis than I did before the ticker problems of last year.)<br />
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After our Lun-ner (combo Lunch and Dinner. . . Hey if they can call a mid-morning meal Brunch, we decided to call our mid-afternoon meal Lunner) I continued on my merry way to see old friend Jane about 1/2 hour farther south off I-95. Jane made a nice smaller meal for me and we, too, talked on-and-on about what's gone on over the past 4 years in our lives.<br />
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I checked-in at a nearby motel for the night at about 10pm, much later than I'd expected. Having phoned from Jane's place to make sure they saved my room for me was a good idea. Seems they had "reserved" the best room in the place for me! At no extra charge. Tho, in my judgement, the room looked just a little too "kitschy" for my tastes. I was also welcomed by Jiminy Cricket. I guess he got out and away from Donkey Island in DisneyWorld and had come to remind me to Always Let My Conscience Be My Guide. . . .<br />
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Okay, okay, so he's not really a cricket. He's a Palmetto Bug, quite common even indoors hereabouts. And he's not very big compared to others I've seen. . . . some two or even three times this guy's size. I didn't have the heart to evict him. He's still there in the bathtub. I will see him to the door in the morning, when I want to let him know it's MY turn to use the shower.</div>
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-81692107182111117642016-12-27T21:56:00.001-08:002016-12-27T21:56:03.534-08:00Disney SpringsSpent Tuesday at Disney Springs, Disney World's newest section. Lots of stores and restaurants.<br />
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At Disney Springs later in the day I treated everyone to ice cream at an iconic San Francisco establishment that I was surprised to see had a "branch office" here:</div>
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Watch Buzz and Woody rocket to infinity and beyond. Musta taken a million LEGO pieces to build this bit of art:<br />
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Mikey and I went to Dunkin' Donuts early Sunday morning. He found other stuff to do besides sip coffee. . . .<br />
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I "stole" the coffee cup from a friend. It has been named "Cylindrical Stanley" by me. I will photo it at various places I visit on this trip.<br />
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Charlie and Teddy would have enjoyed this. . . .<br />
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Who's the cat in THAT hat?<br />
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This one has a little car. This one has a little star. SAY! What a lot of fish there ARE!<br />
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Unless. The Lorax in the Dr. Seuss area got all decked out for Christmas Day.<br />
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Cylindrical Stanley and I made it to LONDON. Harry Potter's version of it, that is. . . .<br />
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Quite crowded. On Christmas Day. . . .<br />
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Across "The Pond" from "London" stood Krustyland, a part of The Simpsons. I just HAD to go on THAT ride. It was the highlight of my day. Couldn't stop laughing. Even standing in the 50 minute long LINE to get on the ride. They entertained us waiting saps with "Best of The Simpsons" film clips while we waited. Best waiting line I have EVER been in.</div>
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Fire breathing dragon in Harry Potter "land". . . .<br />
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It was a hot time in the old town. Took today ("Boxing Day") off. Went to a timeshare sales presentation at the resort where we are staying and was able to stonewall and get out within just about an hour. Already owning ONE I know about the high-pressure sales pitch and was able to get out of it "gracefully" IMHO, by telling the salesguy that I have a certain medical condition that renders my butt useless after too much time sitting (and listening to circuitous explanations about options, points, blah, blah, blah). He was a nice enough fellow. He understood my point of view and didn't push the matter TOO far.<br />
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To be continued (hopefully). . . .Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-8265459017592714342016-09-14T17:18:00.000-07:002016-09-14T17:18:22.454-07:00We're coming to the edge, running on the water, coming through the fog. . . .I took the title to this blog posting from Carly Simon's "Let the River Run," one of my favorite songs.<br />
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Here's the photos from my last two days back East, in Connecticut and Long Island. Tho I got home nearly one week ago, it took me until today to finally "catch up" and finish posting the last photos of the last two full days, Monday September 5th and Tuesday, September 6th.<br />
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On Monday, I was up before the crack of dawn at Beth and Greg's to make it to New London and catch the 6:30am ferry from there back to the eastern end of Long Island, at Orient Point on the northern "tail" of The Island. . . .<br />
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Still waiting in line to drive the car onto the ferry at sunrise:<br />
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The trip out of New London harbor was interesting. . .<br />
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Went past the old Submarine-building company, General Dynamics, in the harbor, on the way out. Dunno if that one "in two pieces" was under construction or just there for display. It looked a lot smaller than the really BIG ones I remember I used to see inside the building when going by and the doors to the building were open. . . .<br />
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A "tin can" as sailors call them, was docked in the harbor. The <u><i>nemesis</i></u> of all submariners! Maybe the destroyer was there to practice dropping some depth-charges on the subs???<br />
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Looking to the west as we exited the harbor, the lighthouse there. . .<br />
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And looking to the east as we got outside the harbor, the little island lighthouse <u><i>there</i></u>. . . .<br />
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Being that it was Labor Day, there weren't many other passengers or cars on board:<br />
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It was a little rough when we got out to "open seas". . . . <br />
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Here's some video clips of it:<br />
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Saw plenty more lighthouses on the way. . . .<br />
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Pulling in to the Orient Point ferry terminal was exciting. . . . Like watching Star Wars' Death Star swallow up a smaller planet!<br />
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When we pulled in to port, it was very interesting to see the good ship "Cape Henlopen" alongside of us. Her original name was "LST 510" and her first purpose in her long life was to land marines and soldiers on one of the beaches in Normandy on D-Day of World War II. Many veterans have had reunions on her over the years. After the surrender of Germany she was scheduled to go thru the Panama Canal to go help finish the war against the Japanese, but by the time she made it to the Caribbean the Japanese had already surrendered, so she went back to the East Coast and was used as a ferry in a few of the places there, including the Cape May, New Jersey to Lewes, Delaware ferry run. . . . before she was sold to the Cross Sound Ferry Co. - where she proudly serves even today.<br />
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Some of her history is given on the Cross Sound Ferry Company's website:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">and it's *ahem* big wine-growing region on Long Island's "North Fork". . . .</span><br />
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Passed thu the Oyster Ponds on the causeway there. . . .<br />
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And the interestingly named town of East Marion, NY. . . . named after South Carolina's "Swamp Fox" - Francis Marion - of the American Revolution, by the first settlers of this area. . . . folks who moved here from South Carolina way back then! I didn't have time to take photos of that little town as I passed thru it. Like they say, "Don't blink!"<br />
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Here's a sample of Long Island's competition for Napa and Sonoma, California. . .<br />
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Stopped by one of my last homes on Long Island - before my move to California - at Towne House Village in Islandia:<br />
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And my last house, on good old Genesee Drive. . .<br />
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They both look like they're still in pretty good shape.<br />
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Continuing my "homes tour" I decided to drive by the old home of 29 years in Huntington Station. . .<br />
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Still looking pretty good, too. And with the Magnolia tree out front having grown to humongeous size. It must look very beautiful when the blossoms on it are in bloom.<br />
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And Grammy's house, two blocks over. . .<br />
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The old neighborhoods haven't changed much. Even the local "taverna" down the street from our old house in Huntington is still there. The name of it now reminds me of some friends I have out here in California in a town of the same name. . . .<br />
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I then went downtown to Huntington to see if our favorite diner, Golden Dolphin, was still in business. I was surprised to find it not only in business, but having been rebuilt and expanded another storefront. . .<br />
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Had my lunch there. . . .<br />
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Wow! What an improvement over the way it used to look!<br />
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I met good old Teddy, who told me his brother Peter had "dropped out" of co-ownership with him when they made all the changes to the old place. I look like Teddy gave me an extra glass of wine in this photo (something he used to do - besides offering free dessert to Eleanor and me back when we were "regulars" at the old place). I swear I didn't touch a drop this time. I'm off liquor completely these days!<br />
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the Italian restaurant. I didn't get any photos of us. . . . I guess we yakked so much about what's been going on in our lives for the past year-and-a-half that I just didn't think to take any photos!</div>
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Took the good old Hutchinson River Parkway, stopping by "the Sequoia tree" at the good old rest stop near the north end of the parkway. . . .<br />
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I reached my cousin Jimmy's at 11:30 and went with him to visit his dad, my Uncle Paul, at the nursing home. He seemed happy and talkative, but Jim told me that he's not that way <u><i>all</i></u> of the time. I think Uncle Paul was glad to see me and we did talk for over two hours. I hope he keeps his spirits up and puts on a few pounds. I had a nurse take a photo of the three of us, but would rather keep it for my personal use.<br />
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Went back to Jim and Karen's place after that and Jim showed me around. They've got a very nice place out in the country. We went out to their garden and Jim fresh-picked the veggies for our salad for dinner there. His flower garden alongside the barn there impressed me. . . .<br />
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Karen fixed a wonderful dinner that I enjoyed. She always makes me feel right at home whenever I visit. Thanks Karen!</div>
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Again, we talked a long time and I forgot to take photos! But I did exchange a jar of my son Jamie's honey for a jar of Jimmy's. Both my James and my cousin Jimmy are beekeepers, so a comparison of California honey versus New England honey was something I had to take the honey for!</div>
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I drove back to my hotel on Long Island that night, finished packing, and was on my way to the airport by 8am Wednesday for my 11:30 flight back home. It was pretty much uneventful, other than that we sat on the runway for what seemed like an eternity before getting into the air. I joked with the fella across the aisle that "I think we've used up all our fuel just 'idling' on the runway." He agreed.</div>
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Got back to Oakland airport on time, and had dinner then hitched a ride home with a certain-someone who shall remain unnamed here. It was a great trip. I felt a bit more like a tourist this last few weeks on this trip than I did last year when I made the same three-week-long trip. I was glad to see so many of my old friends and relatives on this trip tho!</div>
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Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-92007220444148392016-09-09T22:08:00.000-07:002016-09-09T23:42:06.322-07:00A FAIR DayOn Sunday, the 4th, I got up early.<br />
The Welcome Mat at Beth and Greg's was out. . . . (for a LONG time, it'd seem). . . .<br />
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St. Andrew's is just down the street from this venerable institution, The Bacon Academy, which dates back to 1803 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. (I did some research to find that out.) The building is still used as a school in the Colchester Public Schools. . . . <br />
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. . . .their alternative High School, I think. At least the Wikepedia article about the building seems to say so:<br />
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We wandered around the Farmers Market, but couldn't find anything we wanted to buy. Beth suggested we drive over to the Woodstock County Fair, up in the northeast corner of Connecticut about an hour's ride away. I had my doubts (as did Greg) about whether it'd be worth such a long trip, but saw that it was worth the trip once we got there. . . .<br />
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There were lots of interesting exhibits. This one was a contest where kids hitched their ponies to a "sled" that pulled concrete blocks across the dirt:<br />
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Lots of gardening and flower contests:<br />
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Here's Beth and Greg, when we first arrived:<br />
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A biplane flew over the fair! Maybe it was from the Rhinebeck Aerodrome over in New York??? I thought maybe, just maybe. (I'd been there as a kid and had taken Beth and her brothers there to watch the biplanes "dogfight" many years ago.) <br />
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I was again reminded of Rhinebeck when I was leaving New York a couple of days later, by this advertisement for it at Laguardia Airport. . . .<br />
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Anyway, back on the ground. . . . Plenty of Blue Ribbons in the exhibit halls at the fair:<br />
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This sand-sculpture had a lot of fans. The gal and guy were still in the process of building it.<br />
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Mmmmmm. Pie! Cake! Cookies! Cupcakes!</div>
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And the Blue Ribbon for the Tallest Sunflower, goes to:<br />
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The "Rock Painting Contest" for kids in early elementary school grades was cute. I especially liked the "minions" one in the upper left corner of this photo AND the "hamster" one in the lower right corner here, too. . . .<br />
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Lotsa sheep. . . .<br />
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In that I'm known as BaBa to my grandsons, I felt like I fit right IN. . . .<br />
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Some prize-winners:<br />
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In another exhibition hall. . . . Geese, ducks, and chickens:<br />
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. . . .and rabbits. . . .<br />
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Can't get them any fresher!<br />
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Hey grandson Teddy! It's a Cowwwwwwah! (The Tedster has the most drawn-out pronunciation of the word COW that I have EVER heard!)<br />
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And that's no bull!<br />
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Judging time. . . .<br />
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Heee-Haw. Heee Haw!<br />
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Yes, morning beckons. I will have to leave Connecticut on the 6:30am ferry back to Long Island tomorrow morning. We left the fair so that we could have dinner at Harry's - the local Burger Joint in Colchester that <i>everyone</i> loves - and so that I'd get back to Beth and Greg's with plenty of time to get a good night's rest.<br />
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We played "Pass The Potato." Cole James (Hey! That's another "CJ" in the family!) was the potato.<br />
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His Grammy is very happy. . . . <br />
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As is his proud Papa, Bear. . . .<br />
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And Grand-Auntie Ruthie. . . . <br />
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His big sis held him awhile, too, but not for long. . . . Having many other things to do!<br />
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I like Grammy's poster. . . . <br />
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After going to Aimee and Bear's, we went to Liz and Rick's for dinner. A great meal, having much of the "tribe" back together. It was a nice little combined birthday party for some of us.<br />
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Afterwards, I "convoyed" with Beth and Greg back to their home in Colchester. . . . At the far eastern side of Connecticut. It took better than three hours to drive there, and I turned the wheel over to Beth about halfway there. Didn't want to doze off at the wheel. Got to their place very late that night.<br />
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To be continued. . . .Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-20197517250123448342016-09-05T19:22:00.000-07:002016-09-05T20:06:33.006-07:00American TouristerSo on Friday, I went back to the city. This time, tho, I left my place AFTER Rush Hour.<br />
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I hopped on a "hop-on, hop-off bus" in Midtown Manhattan and saw some places I've seen many times before, but also some places I've never seen YET. . . .<br />
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I hopped on the L.I.R.R. in Bethpage. . . . <br />
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Headed west, but not quite as far west as the ad above "suggested". . . .<br />
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I was thinking of The West, tho, when I saw <b>this</b> ad and thought "Hey, putting a zip-line on the trees in Redwood Park up in the Oakland Hills would be a lot of fun!" More fun than a zip-line on some stunted little Pine Barren trees on Long Island.<br />
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Anywhooo. . . . Here, in no particular order is what I saw in the city, most of it from the top deck of a sightseeing bus. . . .<br />
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The General Sherman Monument at the southwest corner of Central Park. . . . <br />
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Christopher Columbus still standing guard over Columbus Circle nearby. . . . <br />
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Carnegie Hall. Welllll. . . . I asked someone how to get to Carnegie Hall and this is where they sent me. I need to practice asking for directions better, I guess. Actually this was the spot where I "hopped on" the tour bus. <br />
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The M&M store in Times Square! Teddy and Charlie would have a BLAST at this place. I've been teaching them colors, using M&Ms as motivation. Teddy was still calling every single one I pulled out of the packet "BLUE!" in his enthusiastic manner when I left Alameda. I hope he will have progressed a bit by the time I get back home.<br />
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Another Teddy astride a steed. . . . <br />
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. . . .outside of "his" museum, the Museum of Natural History. <br />
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It is humongeous. Too big to even fit all of it into one photo from so close up. <br />
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The Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art. (My sis-in-law Liz says a lot of people think it looks like a toilet bowl.) <br />
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I decided to get off the bus at the Goog and go in and have a look around. If not for the art, at least to see the architecture of this kinda odd building.<br />
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This is a 360 degree "wraparound" panorama of the inside that I took while I was standing in the middle of the ground floor:<br />
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Here's looking straight up from the center of the ground floor: <br />
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Some familiar-looking works. 95% of the art there is "post-modern" and I was unimpressed by it for the most part. The stuff by Monet, Degas, and Seurat caught my eye, tho. . . .<br />
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Climbing up the circular "ramp". . . . <br />
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Another photo of the top, but this time from the top of the circular ramp: <br />
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Looking across, from near the top: <br />
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Good old Frank Lloyd Wright. . . . . Hmmm. THIS building is definitely one of his most interesting ones. <br />
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Back on the bus, we passed the Metropolitan Museum of Art. . . . I didn't go in because I've been there many, many times. I like the art THERE. . . . because it is a bit more like what I think of as art, AND because it has so many historical works of art. <br />
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I learned FAST why they don't want passengers to stand up. Even sitting, the traffic lights passed only about six inches above me! <br />
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While waiting for a bus transfer on 59th Street I saw a traffic jam, of a sort, in Central Park. . . .<br />
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Here's another pic of the M&Ms store, looking down the side-street it is on. . . . <br />
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot. . . . Just in case you forgot what YEAR this is. . . . <br />
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Continuing south, another 20 blocks or so. "23 Skidoo". . . . There's a story behind that old 1920's era expression, having to do with this building. . . . . <br />
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. . . .which is located just across Madison Square Park from THESE buildings, both of which I worked at during the 1970s and 1980s. <br />
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It's The Flatiron Building, on 23rd Street. They say that cops were constantly chasing "Girl Watchers" away from nearby it, shouting the expression "Skidoo!" at the fellas. The guys hung out there because the wind in the area around the building caused some *ahem* "billowing." <br />
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A postcard from 'back in the day.' Take note of what it says in lower right. The guy is apparently enjoying "sightseeing" in New York.<br />
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I, being a POLITE New Yorker, never hung out at the sidewalk over that way. My buddy and I walked around the PARK on our lunch-hour. I swear.<br />
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Anyways. . . . Another view of the OLD Met Life buildings. . . . <br />
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A photo of 34th Street with The Empire State Building down it a bit. . . . <br />
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The swanky Plaza Hotel at corner of 5th Avenue and Central Park South. . . . <br />
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At which point I asked the bus's Tour Guide "Hey, where's Central Perk?" And she said "I get asked that question a LOT." Ain't no such place.<br />
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So, continuing even farther south. . . . There's this "twisted" apartment building downtown near City Hall. It was only built in the past few years, and according to the Tour Guide is one of the tallest apartment buildings in the world.<br />
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Turning around, and coming back towards midtown via West Street, this hits you square in the face! <br />
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And so ended Friday's tour. EXCEPT for one more interesting thing. As our bus was on its way back to midtown someone looked up at the sky and saw first THIS:<br />
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I thought it was "INA" with a heart. Some said it maybe was "TINA" and that the T had "washed away already, but looking up and following the solo plane doing the skywriting, we saw<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I figure that thousands of gals named TINA or INA in Manhattan that day phoned their boyfriends to shout YES, YES. . . and hopefully, for the guy who actually PAID the pilot, <span style="color: red;"><b>his</b></span> "intended" did TOO.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-42999236412677239962016-09-02T04:23:00.000-07:002016-09-02T04:23:18.666-07:00NY NY<span style="font-size: large;">I went to THE City yesterday. Got up and on the train very early. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was raining, but I waited in line with a few other folks. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had brought along a sign. Maybe it was a bit too "wordy," but You know ME. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I made it on camera. . . . Sis-in-law Liz phoned me and told me so. She recorded it and I'll see it tomorrow when I pay her a visit. Anyway, here's the rest of the show. . . . Or the parts of it that I saw from my location in the crowd!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Willie Geist carrying the new dog mascot for the show "Charlie" along with Al Roker. Al came outside from the studio before any of the rest of them and actually worked his way around the crowd and shook hands with nearly EVERYONE. There weren't many more than 60 or so of us, since it was a rainy morning. He allowed some to even take Selfies with him. What a guy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie (hidden behind Al) came out too. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's one of their helpers carrying the dog around for anyone who want to pet him. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The indoor studio was just across the way from me. You can see Matt & Savannah in this: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After it was over, NY's Finest sent in its "Crowd Control Unit". . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I hopped on the Subway to go somewhere else I've been meaning to go to. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I picked up my ticket at "Castle Clinton" at The Battery. . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing you see as you get inside of the Pedestal is the OLD torch that they replaced in the 1980s. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't get a ticket to climb all the way up to her crown. You have to make reservations to do that at least three months ahead. And anyway, I was there when I was about 12 years old, my only other time here. I did get to look UP and see the internal structure, tho, from inside the Pedestal which was the highest point in the statue that I could go to today: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's a museum inside the Pedestal. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gustav Eiffel designed the "skeleton" of the statue. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi designed the exterior. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The smaller photo is of the torch on display for a few years at Madison Square Park, directly across the street from where I used to work in Manhattan. . . . but just a wee tad few years earlier than me being there. Can't imagine what it'd have been like for office workers to stroll around the park on their lunch hour back then and see THIS: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I tried a LOT of times to get a close-up panorama of Her and the skyline. She's just too tall!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple more interesting tidbits of information on the placards around the park there: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally, just before leaving, I stopped at the gift shop. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I got on the boat again, and sailed over to Ellis Island. By that time, my battery on my cell phone was dead. I wish I could have at least gotten a photo of the Registry Hall (some call it The Great Hall) there. Very very impressive. I did look up my dad's mom's name on the Wall Of Honor where it'd been inscribed due to my cousins' Brian and Francine's having made contributions to do so. Ellis Island was VERY thought-provoking and got me just a little choked up as I was thinking that three out of my four grandparents had come thru here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that was yesterday. I plan to go back to the city again today and do another tourist thing. . . . Ride the "hop on, hop off" double-decker bus. I'll see a lot more that way. I haven't been in the new 9/11 Memorial yet, but just might do so today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I went the couple of miles or so down Wheeler Road to pay My Missus a visit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yep. She's still there, holding my place for me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Yep "<b>SHE</b>'s" still <i>there</i>, too!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually, I walked up to her from the beachfront parking lot at Robert Moses State Park. . . . It kinda GREW on me. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep, still there, after weathering a few more storms since I left her in 2013. Along with her friends, the Lightkeeper's House and the Fresnel Lens Display Building: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My old "duty station" was the first place I stopped:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I stopped by the Fresnel Lens building (the one with the curved roof), where I used to volunteer docent, explaining the intricacies of this State-Of-The-Art engineering wonder to visitors. I think I was a pretty decent docent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fella doing all the explaining today was Ross, who - he told me - joined the Lighthouse Preservation Society after I had left in 2013:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took note of the new "wind-up handle" on the clock mechanism. I used to tell people it was missing and that we'd eventually get a replacement for it. It is one of the neatest things about the lens. . . . By winding it up, the Lightkeeper was pulling weights up the lighthouse tower, just like if it was a giant Grandfather's Clock that you'd pull the weights up on to make the clock turn. . . . only in a lighthouse, you are making the LENS turn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After chatting with Ross and even assisting him in explaining some neat stuff about the Fresnel (like having visitors stand on opposite ends of the balcony and look thru the center part (the "bullseye") of the lens to see each other magnified like to a size 100% of their normal size, and upside down(!). . . . I <u><i>Always</i></u> got a kick out of doing that with kids there on Field Trips. Ross told me they still do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After my visit to Ross and "Blinky" I went to the Lightkeeper's House and met Bob and Peggy, the two folks still in charge there. I congrat-ed them both on having kept the place up so well - and even made a lot of improvements - since the time that Superstorm Sandy hit in 2013. Bob gave me a free pass to climb the tower, and told Karen in the Gift Shop to give me a free bumper-sticker too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that the base of the tower has walls that are about 8 feet thick. Here's the entrance:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ONLY 186 spiraling steps to climb! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But nice resting places with windows along the way every so often: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Getting a little higher, up to the 3rd or 4th window, I could see our "employee parking" lot over by the National Park's Ranger Station: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just under the light there's a small room that used to have a pot-belly stove. It was where the lightkeeper spent his nights when he was on duty. . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lightkeeper's wife and kids weren't allowed up to this "attic" very often, if at all. But - according to the placard in the museum downstairs - the kids had plenty of fun just because they lived at the beach year-round. Imagine that. . . . sorta like my Charlie and Teddy having the run of the park that <u><i><b>they</b></i></u> live in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So here's the final ascent from the Watch Room. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . .to the beacon and the balcony surrounding it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pete, the guy on duty on the balcony took this one of me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The view was pretty good. Sky was clear. This is looking west, towards NYC. You really can't see the city's skyline even on a clear day because it is over 50 miles away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Toodled on off back to the parking lot, but along the way found this unusual pine tree. Seemed to have a LOT more cones than any I'd ever seen before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I followed the boardwalk back to the parking lot having had a really great time at the lighthouse. Looked over my shoulder to take this "parting shot."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, here's that photo I took from the plane as I was coming in to JFK Airport on Monday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The water tower (circled in red) in the photo is dead-ahead as taken from my car as I came across the bridge to Fire Island. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the <u><i>lighthouse</i></u> is the ORANGE oval-circled tower that's flashing in the aerial photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Nuff for now. To be continued. . . .</span><br />
<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-48886417017511520322016-08-31T17:34:00.000-07:002016-08-31T17:34:49.013-07:00A Side-Trip to Teddy's<span style="font-size: large;">So on Tuesday, I went to the gym for three hours in the morning and then took a trip over to Teddy Roosevelt's home - Sagamore Hill - in Oyster Bay on the Long Island north shore. A beautiful place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went to the Visitors Center and tried to buy a ticket to go into the house, but I was told they were Sold Out for the rest of the day, so I went to their museum - in a separate building from the house - and saw some interesting stuff there. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of people don't know that Teddy's first wife, Alice, died a day after giving birth to her namesake, Alice. . . . and on that same day in the same house her mother-in-law, Teddy's mom, also died. He came rushing back from his job as a State Assemblyman up in the state capital, but was too late to be at their bedsides. His diary entry for that day - a big X and the words "The light has gone out of my life" was the last one that he made for many, many years. . . . until he married his second wife, Edith. I thought the placard for that was interesting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After "going into seclusion" and living alone as a rancher in South Dakota for many years he DID marry Edith, "the girl next door" from his childhood. They had four MORE kids. . . . all of them very rambunctious. They say the White House was like their personal playground. And the Oyster Bay home was where they REALLY cut loose. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tho Teddy was a hunter, and John Muir was a "tree hugger" they had a lot in common: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So after he went camping with Muir, the High Society of San Francisco gave Teddy one of California's best products. . . . formed into a cup. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a lot of fun to go there. Hadn't been there in about 45 years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a very good visit. After which I drove out to my cousin Patricia's and her Ray. Had dinner with them and "caught up on things". We yakked for hours! Stayed overnight and then went to church the next morning where I met sis-in-law Ruthann and the "old crowd" from St. Thomas More Church. I ran a bit late getting there (STILL unused to how bad the traffic around here has gotten)! After church, I took the mile or so trip over to Queen Of All Saints Cemetery to visit someone special. . . . .</span><br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-79174455837430861932016-08-31T17:06:00.002-07:002016-08-31T17:06:17.997-07:00From South Carolina to New York, on Monday 8/29/16<span style="font-size: large;">So I toodled off to Charlotte Airport, NC, from son Michael's in Columbia, SC on Monday morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had to drive 82 miles to get there, mostly on Interstate 26. . . . Near the end of the trip I got in a traffic jam and started to worry I might not make the plane in time. Tho I thought I'd be cutting it close, I really had nothing to worry about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I had plenty of time to walk around the airport and take a few photos of some interesting stuff. Old Billy is still alive and kicking, they say. . . . and approaching 100. God is good to his Preachers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Took some photos from the plane. I think this is the best one of them all. Robert Moses State Beach (with the orange brick water tower) and the Fire Island Lighthouse along side of it at Fire Island National Seashore. I had volunteered as a docent at F.I. Lighthouse in 2012 to 2013 and I'm planning to pay the folks there a visit this Wednesday. . . . The water tower is circled in RED by me, and the lighthouse (blinking at me - THAT is a well-timed photo!) is in the oval in ORANGE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How lucky a shot can you get? Well, actually, my luck was only BEGINNING. . . . You'll see why I say that in just a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got out on the curb at JFK, and admired the old 1960s era TWA terminal across the street, still "lying fallow." A really cool bit of architecture, designed by one Eero Saarinen. In it's heyday it was THE airport terminal to beat them all. I recall taking son Mikey there when he went on his exchange student trip to Spain. I think it was spiffed up a bit and used for parts of the movie "Catch Me If You Can" too. I read in the newspaper just a few weeks ago that plans are now being made to convert it into a hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So anyways. . . . About my luck that day: I got to the car-rental place and told them I had reserved a Toyota Yaris. . . . a car that seems to be even smaller than a Volkswagon (only because on my budget I couldn't afford anything much bigger at the notoriously high NEW YORK PRICES). The guy at the counter tells me "We're out of Yaris's, but we will upgrade you to a Camry." Ooooooh-KAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get in the Camry, turn the key and the CHECK ENGINE light comes on. So NOW they upgrade me AGAIN. . . . to an SUV! Sheesh! Golly! and Hokey Smokes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I rode out to my hotel in the suburbs. . . Bethpage. . . Just about the only unlucky part of the day. I'd hit Rush Hour, and the traffic was at a crawl. Got to the hotel about 6:30, checked in and asked "Where's your pool and your workout room?" The answer was "Sorry we have neither. There are NO Extended Stay America hotels that have them." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Okay", I say. . . . "Do you know any nearby gyms that have daily rates?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I'll phone Planet Fitness for you right now and find out if they do."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He calls them and finds out they have a special going on for the next few days: $5.00 for the first month with no "initiation fees." Cool! I'll go there first thing in the morning and sign-up, and workout and use it till I leave back for California next week. Such a DEAL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, I will cancel the membership day before I leave. I asked Ian - the fella at the desk at the gym on Tuesday morning if I could do so, and he said "Sure. There won't be any more charges if you notify us of your cancellation before September 7th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm feeling VERY welcomed at the gym. . . . </span><br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-81509021276528976852016-08-30T06:44:00.000-07:002016-08-30T06:44:33.268-07:00To Be Continued. . .<span style="font-size: large;">I only have a very slow-speed Internet connection here at my hotel in New York and can't download any of the photos from yesterday. I will continue taking photos, tho, and maybe go to the local public library to download them to this blog - if and when I have time to do so - OR just keep on "saving them all up" until I get back home on September 7th, and update this blog all in "one fell swoop" at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know how disappointed you, my gentle readers, must be. But as Arnold Schwarzenegger once said, don't worry, "I'll be back." ;-)</span>Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-16734875364535426342016-08-28T17:19:00.000-07:002016-08-28T17:40:34.588-07:0024 Hours in Myrtle Beach<span style="font-size: large;">So Mikey and I hit the road for Myrtle Beach and my timeshare at the Sheraton Broadway Plantation resort there on Saturday morning. (He'd gotten home from work on Friday too late, in my opinion, for us to leave then. So I postponed our departure till Saturday.) It was a two and a half hour trip. . . . We left at 8am and got there at about 10:30.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way we kept seeing huge billboards for a "Beef Jerky Outlet" store. Seemed like there were about 100 of the billboards. . . . When we finally got to the store, it was just a little "hole in the wall" but I just HAD to see what it was all about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They weren't even open yet. But they sent one of their employees - John - to the door to see what I wanted. I told him that I was just curious about the store since they had so many billboards. He said if I wanted to stick around another half hour they'd be open then. I told him no thanks, but in admiration of his tee-shirt (sorta) I asked him if Mikey could take my photo with him. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, so anyway, we continued on our way. We checked-in, looked over the suite (nice balcony overlooking a pond out back). . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . . . and the pool <b><i>table</i></b> next to the indoor one of the pools. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we went to the huge Shopping and Amusements Mall down the street from the resort, Broadway At The Beach. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's tons of Miniature Golf courses in Myrtle Beach, but the one at Broadway At The Beach is a stunner. . . . A huge castle, with a fire-spewing dragon that pops out of the top of the castle tower once every 20 minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mikey took my photo near the castle, singing "If I Ruled the World". . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We walked across the boardwalk that spans the lagoon that's in the middle of the Mall. The same fish (carp) that we'd seen in 2007 when we were here are STILL hanging around the boardwalk nearest the vending machines with the food-pellets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Across the lagoon is a nice hangout - Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville." I thought the "hamster wheel" clear plastic thingies in the lagoon outside Margaritaville were a nice little touch. I can imagine some of Jimmy's patrons in them after having had a few drinks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This - my wharf - was just outside where we ate. . . </span>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is where we ate. Joe's Crab Shack. I like crabcakes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We drove around a bit after that, going up to North Myrtle Beach to try to find a good fishing spot on the Intercoastal Waterway. Had no luck, so did some souvenir shopping and found a Dunkin' Donuts store with PEANUT donuts! A treat. Haven't had a peanut donut in YEARS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After that we went to the beach back in Myrtle Beach. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning, I was up at the crack of dawn. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I convinced Mikey to go to church with me. A really packed-crowd, and the singing was nice. It's great to have the familiar "sameness" no matter what catholic church you go to. Me, having had my recent medical problems, feel like my reason - sorta - for going to church again is that "There are no athiests in foxholes." But it is, really, for me a very soothing and calming thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After church we went back downtown, but this time to one of the ocean piers so Mikey could try fishing THERE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a REAL shark swimming around at the far end of the pier, but Mikey had to settle for "catching" this plastic one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a really nice day, but hot and humid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were a few "para-sailing" customers out in the ocean. </span><br />
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<br />Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641115861689097655.post-21038650457919207152016-08-26T13:07:00.000-07:002016-08-26T13:07:38.636-07:00Any Visit to The Deep South Should Include THIS. . . .. . . . A visit to a peanut store!<br />
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Went to the renown Columbia South Carolina establishment, <i>Cromer's</i>, after my morning gym workout. To pick up some souvenirs. No visit to Columbia, South Carolina is ever complete without a stop at Cromer's.<br />
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Then I returned to Tranquility Base. . . . Took this pic of Mikey's backyard from an upstairs window.<br />
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Mikey and I are going to drive out to Myrtle Beach for the weekend, and maybe do some saltwater fishing. It'll be a good father-son "bonding experience" before I have to leave for New York early Monday morning.<br />
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Maybe I'll add some photos of Myrtle Beach to this later today or tomorrow. This posting definitely won't be anywhere as long as yesterday's tho, I promise.Rossmoorxword@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393465961018314070noreply@blogger.com0