Category Archives: Friends

1/2/2021 – Saturday – what do we eat during the pandemic – drinks

Nan asked what we have been eating during the pandemic. This provoked the expenditure of lots of time and energy to create an answer. Food During The Pandemic  (opens new window)

Some thought that it might dry enough for some tennis. Temp reached 44. But nets have disappeared probably until end March.

Went to Fairview Wine. Bought exactly the Bordeaux’s that Ted and Anne served a few weeks back.

Need to do a lot of cleaning on the markorton.com site.

Ted and Anne came for drinks. They were happy with the heater even though temperature outdoors was 35 degrees. Anne talked about her childhood and her father. Not so happy to be sure.

More George Gently series.

12/24/2020 – Thursday – Christmas Eve

Slow day.

Wrestled with installation on new Mac-Mini in office. Strange flashing on screens. Can’t seem to replicate conditions.

 We were planning a dinner outdoors with Dave Drake and Hazel Matera. Cancelled due to virus concerns for Hazel. We had leftover duck and fixing from earlier meal with Dave.We didn’t wait up for Santa Claus. Lots of rain over night melting away the snow.

12/6/2020 – Sunday – walk, Leiden Zoom, dinner with Dave and Hazel

Snow on the Catskills already….

Went for a walk. Not our usual  route. Down  to  the Promenade, then on to the water  treatment  plant,  up 2nd to Robinson. At end of 3rd walk down steep hill and back up to Washington St. At the Fire Station walked around to County Social Services building this revealed a path across the eastern end of Oakdale Park. Through the woods to clamber on up to Oakwood Blvd. Along Oakdale Beach on 6th St on to Warren and then home. 3 1/2miles.On Robinson St.

Past the County Social Services bldg. to the path around the eastern end of Oakdale Park.

A lot of this was new territory for us. And new perspectives on well know ground.

Zoom with the kids in Leiden

Jesse scored in the top ranks for selection to the high schools in Leiden.

Dinner with Dave and Hazel

Karen roasted a beer can chicken, made tomatoes and cabbage stew, and I made faro. Dave brought his homemade butter nut pecan ice cream. Temperature was 30 degrees. Dinner lasted for 1 1.2 hours. With the 2 hours with Ted and Anne Saturday looks like a tank of gas lasts for around 4 hours.


More Brokenwood tv

11/27/2020 – Friday – Dermatology, walk, tennis

Drove Karen up to East Greenbush for a reading of the biopsy on her upper lip. Fortunately the results are fairly benign. A pre-cancer finding. Now hopefully successfully eradicated through a cryogenic procedure.

Drove to Papscanee Island Nature Preserve for a walk. This park is located on the Hudson River in New Castleton, NY. 3.5 mile walk. Flat with occasional muddy section on the trail. Nice to be walking in a new environment.
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There must have been a very strong wind storm recently. Whole trees blown down….


Tennis with Ted in the afternoon. Esther Hanig drink at 5:30 via Zoom. Post Thanksgiving debrief…..

4/30/2020 – 7/1/2020

I have not felt motivated to write much during this period. The pandemic and its associated tribulations interfere.

We’ve been quite busy with socializing mainly virtually but with warm weather outdoors chiefly people’s backyards. We’ve moved our drinks with Ted and Anne to our backyards on a weekly schedule. Dave Drake has come by for food a number of times. He is working his way through a myriad of curry dishes. Zoom meetings weekly with Esther Hanig, Ellen Feldman, Dave Drake, the Orton siblings, the Leiden crew. 

With less regularity Andrea and company have Zoomed and appeared here physically. Though we have seen Noah and Nyla twice now in the backyard once including Noah’s girlfriend Kiara Guyton. Andrea actually talked with us for almost two hours in a singe stretch. Probably my longest conversation with her in decades. Nyla wrote a great high school essay, “Aunt Jemima Ain’t Chure Mammy”

4/25/2020 – Saturday

seen at farmers market…..

Listened to Its Only a Game.

Read more of Gene.

Left for long walk at 9:30. Stopped at farmers market to pick up a fresh chicken from Letterbox.

More reading. Fixed bad CSS in the new newsletter plugin for DOG. Talked with Ted and Anne for more than an hour.

Dave’s pork vindaloo, Karen fiery cauliflower……
Person of Interest on tv.