Museums Continue to Surprise
Karen and I got off to an earlier than usual departure from Hudson yesterday and made it into Harlem by 11 am. After some pauses to chase the various children around, we went off to The Museum of the City of NY at 103rd and 5th Ave. It was a warm day [...]
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Some may be bemused, others amused, and some surely stunned. Mr. Wonderful was elected to the Board of Directors of the local library in January. Now, this bit of news has found its way into the local bleat The Register Star. You may be wondering why your author did not just link to this story? [...]
Surplus Garlic Meets the Soup Pot
On a recent visit to the relos in NJ we were gifted with part of their surplus garlic. They shop at Costco and buy in bulk. In this case, we got stuck with seven heads (bulbs, perhaps depending on your dialect) of garlic. These hung around for a couple of [...]
New York State Museum, Fitchburg MA, Simonds Saw & Steel, Nuclear Waste, and Family Connections
Posted in economy, family, health, history on Dec 10th, 2009
Karen and I went on a one of our mid-week jaunts to Albany and the NYS Museum. The museum is quite large with more than one visit’s worth of exhibitions about NY and its history. As a longtime New Englander with a somewhat Boston-centric view of history, it is obvious that I need to do [...]
First, we performed the Passport Check Ritual
Now, it actually happened that someone got to the airport, presented her Passport, only to be informed that it wasn’t hers.
She departs with just one big bag!!
Shortly Karen will be off on one of those big birds for China. She is an invited exhibitor in China 13th International Photographic Art Exhibition in Lishui. Here is a link to her on the show’s website. The only English-based information on the website is here.
Karen will be showing mostly color and some black and [...]
Skype videoconferencing and caught doing “peekaboo” with Jesse
Posted in Hong Kong, Hudson, anecdotes, family, web, internet & software on Oct 5th, 2009
Karen took these photos. What’s a guy to do when entertaining a grandchild via Skype?
Later…….. poor kid.
Parker, Maggie, and Noah visited after stays at camps in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Here are a few shots from this event. Missed lots of people so it is really a smattering.
Jane Kogan invited us to her 70th birthday party in Provincetown. The event, attended by around 35 people took place at the famous Lobster Pot restaurant. Jane chowed down on a disgustingly large lobster with all of the fixings. I got a chance to discover a new crowd of of friends and cronies.
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