Daily Musings - page 19

Great pictures, Victor. DH and I LOVE NY. We stay at the Youth Hostel located at 103rd and Amsterdam - just a few blocks west of Central Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Cost to stay? $30 each per night. The subway is one block away.

Great - I'm familiar with that area but did not know about the hostel. I worked on 125 Street & Broadway, where the subway comes outside (because it's a low spot and it's filled with water - they could not tunnel there). Many don't know that a seismic fault crosses 125 street in that area.

Yeah - the hostel is a great - cheap place to stay - well, cheap anyway - and no bedbugs. And the location is great.

Michaela are your Tanglewood plans still on? I used to teach there every summer for a few years, before that I was a student there. And any tiny possibility that your youth hostel has an elevator?

Yankee, what on earth is a dibble?

xx, C

A dibble is a pointed usually wooden tool used for making holes in the ground for planting seed, bulbs and seedlings.

Celeste,

Congratulations on the GREAT news of a new Grandbaby!
Even more perfect....It's a girl *lol*
What wonderful news :) So happy for you.

Oh gosh... today was the day we convinced my father he needed to move into an assisted living center....

x, C

So is this a red-letter day, Carrie?

Yes - the youth hostel in Manhattan has an elevator :-)

I love that duck Andy! Nice looking grapes, too. Great city pics, Victor. I also love Dawn's duck shots.

Hello everyone!!!

Black letter day, Seandor, black.

Here's a lizard (gecko? iguana?) from Aruba. We go to the Caribbean in August and Canada in February.

What? Aren't your travel plans backwards, Carrie? (unless you are going to the snow festivals in Quebec).

Sorry it was a black day for you. It would have been a red letter day for me - my mil was very dibilitated and quite addled near the end (plus was on kidney dialysis). None of her children could face placing her in a assisted living centre - so she was living one her own until the last few months of her life - then she was warehoused in an acute care hospital since there was no other place to put her.

I think her quality of life in the last two years would have been immensely improved (as would have her health) - but as someone who married into the family I had no influence.

When you travel space-available and in off-season hotels that's how it's done, Seandor!

Dad doesn't want to move, he thinks it's working with 24 hour caregivers at home. But he's in Santa Fe NM and moved out there to get away from the east coast. Now they wanna move him East so because the MDs here are better? So they can not have to manage his care long distance? So he'll die sooner? Brilliant me volunteered to take over his care management???? Confused.

x, C

True - bound to get better rates in the off-season. Taking care of our parents is almost as complicated as taking care of our children. Do they have lousy doctors in N.M? I don't blame you for being confused.

I surprised one of my buddies while watering this morning. I don't think she liked the cold wake up call, lol.
Andy P

But what a great photo! Did anyone see the photo of a mantis spearing a hummingbird? Pretty amazing.

Great shot Andy! Paparazzi kind of shot.

Just don't chase anyone into a tunnel!

x, C

What a look he is giving you Andy, great pic.

Just watched a rookie throw a no hitter for the sox. Buchholz, called up from pawsox wasn't scheduled to pitch, his 2nd start in the majors. The kid was cool under pressure, I was a nervous wreck. LOL Congrates to the boys.

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So what is the national sport for Americans - is it baseball, football, or basketball? For Canadians it is lacrosse (hah! you thought it was hockey!)

I would guess that most would say that baseball is our National Sport. Tales tell that basketball was 'invented' here in the USA. Football draws the most TV viewers, as far as I can tell, with rivalries between various regions of the country.

What I most admire, though, are racecar drivers.

I think it is baseball.

Basketball was invented in a gym class in Springfield Ma. from what I understand. Too bad they wrecked the game with the three point shot and now its all flash and dash. Hardly any team-plays seems like, no real defense and they all travel, or at least what used to be called traveling. The art of dribbling the ball, which makes it basketball, has disappeared all together. Then there is the whole hanging on the rim crap. I don't watch basketball anymore and from their ratings I'm not alone. Baseball is the official national past time but football is the big winner. Only a week to opening kickoff. :)

My fave basketball team was the Celtics, back in ... gosh! Can't remember the reign!
Larry Bird
DJ
The Chief
Danny Ainge
I forgot one ...

Oh yeah! That was a team!

True about basketball. Not the same anymore. More than the change in the approach to the game is the integrity of the players. Too many are hoods who would be in a gang if they were not playing. (Maybe some still are!)

I think football has eclipsed baseball in the U.S.

Oh ya that was a team, the other forward from Minnesota I think, the one with ridiculously long arms , oh what was his name? Oh Kevin McHail.(sp) And Johnny doing the play by play.

I've heard Women's Basketball is much more interesting to Basketball lovers. In New England though I think BASEBALL gets the conversation going.

xxx, Carrie

That's IT!!
Kevin McHail!!

Lawdy!! That was a team!!!

Well our State made yahoo headline news this morning and it was for a good cause so im posting the link to the story.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sand_castle
The "Early Show" weatherman Dave (forgot his last name) was here last week and taping live for the show, then it made news as possibly the biggest sandcastle ever built and are trying to enter it into the Guinness Book of records.
Here's the link to the picture.
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070901/480/7f66431447cc45cfbe4044873d1673b6;_ylt=AiYrfJzpagzzAxaWqREO16cuQE4F

Wow. How did he get the sand to stay there all summer?

I have no idea except that maybe it's on shore no where near the water. I am also guessing that the community knew what he was doing and no one was going to be the bully and ruin it. When it comes to things like that, Maine is well known for watching each others property. To be honest....my doors are NEVER locked, it's just the way it is out here in the country.

That's quite a sandcastle story!

We have a nice neighborhhod like yours, too, pixie. But, my SIL still insists on locking the doors! LOL! I guess that's a left-over habit from his days in the 'big city' - no, not NYC!

Cool!!

My DH's cell phone was stolen from the dashboard of his (unlocked) car in the driveway. To look in the car, you have to leave the sidewalk and walk up the driveway, then use a flashlight to see what goodies there are. Next he left his replacement phone in a motel in Texas. They were honest, and called us up.

x, C

Well to be honest....I have 4 large dogs. If they dare to walk in ,more power to them!

My DD has a large DH - does that count?

Yes it counts, mine's kinda large too! LOL

LOL

I thought he might!

I have a large machete. Does that count??

Yup.....got one of those too plus DH collects guns.....won't go into how many he has or I could get visitors!

Only courageous ones!