Friday
Breakfast in the gallery.
UTMH – conference arrangements,Wexelman, Seth & David. Finished my resignation memo to David and Seth
Oakdale party
Red Dot for dinner
Category Archives: Family
8/8/2019 – prostate, UTMH, Jonathan, Nan, Jesse, Anna arrive.
Visit to Dr Subudhi – results of prostate biopsy
shopping
UTMH – Chicago conference
Kids arrive
More UTMH conference work
outing to Oakdale for swimming, hot dogs, ice cream
Spaghetti dinner
Chat
7/20/2019 – HAL board meeting, Jonathan’s 50th birthday party
Saturday
7/7/2019 – lawn care, DOG, drinks at Swoon
Sunday
Listened to more of the Bag Man podcast about Spiro Agnew. Lots of things we have not known about before. Shopping at Walmart because Karen needed to pick up some pills. DOG gallery sitting. Mowed back yard with push mower for first time this summer. Perhaps I should look for an electric mower?
Drinks with David Drake at Swoon.
Received the following via WhatsApp from Jonathan on Thursday. He is in Vietnam.
I asked today where it is was taken. He replied “Nghia An, central VN. Starting point for Ho Chi Minh Trail.” Then he added the following story:
Well, we’re at this goat restaurant in Nghệ An, we’d been there a while, maybe halfway through the meal when an at first faint and then progressively louder cry of a young goat was heard until it was dragged right past our table by it’s two front legs…. the goat knew what was up, we were within ten feet of the set up… it was really overwhelming… I cleared the fuck out of the restaurant for the last part… then they got to work on it, with the carcass but not the workers just slightly out of view …
He sent along these videos:
6/23/2019 – walk, gallery, tennis, drinks
Sunday
Went for walk up Warren after breakfast. Great weather.
Walked down to train station to see Noah off. Train was l;after than he told us. He was outside the house when we walked back. Brief chat with Noah, John and Stephanie.
Gallery duty.
Played tennis with Ted at 3pm. Felt very sluggish and generally lousy. Drinks with Dave at Swoon.
6/8/2019 – Nyla, MOTH
Saturday
Drove to NYC, picked up Jeannette, then to The Tank, 312 W. 36th. to see Nyla participate in the city-wide Moth story telling for teens. We had gone weeks earlier to see her perform in her Moth class performance. Nyla was the first presenter. She was terrific. 
We sat in a bar next door for an hour chatting.
5/21/2019 – arrive Amsterdam, naps, phone cards, lunch, Torrey & Jane
Tuesday
Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday. Another long wait to get through passport control. Train to Leiden was 10 minutes late departing, very unusual. Got to Maredijk by 9am. Kids already off to school. Had coffee with Jonathan and Nan. Brief nap. Then off to the Vodafone store to get chips for the phones. Lunch at City Hall.
5/20/2019 – pack, drive to Berkeley Heights, fly to Amsterdam
Monday
Spoke with Pauline Decarmo about the UTMH printing job. Emailed various other UTMHers. Packed for trip. Left for Berkeley Heights at about 11 am. Stopped briefly on the way out of town at 125 Warren St to look at a demonstration design project by SJ Williams. This for the Design Hudson affair scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
arrived before 2. Talked with Ed. Chased the dog Marley who got loose and disappeared.
Marley, wayward dog captured
Long line at Newark Airport Toni get through security, almost 45 minutes. Noisy visually distressing time in the airport waiting area. Very crowded. Flight left at ~ 5;45 pm.
Didn’t sleep at all. Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday 5/21/2019. Another long wait to get through passport control
5/19/2019 – DOG, drinks at Ted & Anne
Sunday
Karen went off to CPW for second day of portfolio reviews. She sent me this new diptych.
Noah circa 6 or 7 and 20. Mark circa 56 and 71.
The cover of Nature in the City – a natural resource and open space inventory of Hudson, NY. – an unusual view.
