Ramblings again

 Well, the Long Island Railroad workers went on strike Saturday morning,  Thousands of riders  lost their transportation into the city. Fortunately I don’t rely on the railroad these days,

The timing was awful — the Mets and Yankees are playing a Subway Series at Citi Field.  A lot of Mets fans use the railroad to get to the ballpark.The Mets arranged for shuttle buses for the Long Island fans … although, to be honest, it’s probably Yankees fans on those shuttles…the Mets can’t win for losing …

This was the fourth time in history the LIRR experienced a strike — the other strikes were in 1980 (coinciding with a NYC Transit strike),  1987 and 1994.   The 1980 strike didn’t affect me, I was away at college.  The 1994 strike didn’t affect me, I was living in Queens and taking the subway to work,  But in January 1987 I was living on Long Island and commuting to Manhattan, a regular rider of the LIRR.  So, for the duration of the strike — 11 days — I stayed with my grandmother in Queens and took the subway to work. Fun times.

This little one was enjoying our backyard sprinkler.

Yes, that’s grass where the pool used to be. Our backyard is so much nicer since we got rid of that ancient, unusable swimming pool.

And this little one was hopping along the back fence

My neighbor has an interesting old car.

It’s a Ford, not sure of year or model.  Drew says it might be from 1956.

I really liked my other neighbor’s flowers.

McMansion update. Last week the town board unanimously approved a change in zoning laws that reduces the size of any newly-constructed houses.  The board felt Levittown was being targeted by developers and wanted to prevent the neighborhood from too much change.

We tried a new burger chain Friday night.  I’m really liking Holy Burger.  Lots of gluten free options.  

We went to the Ducks game last night. Some idiot tried to start a fight with Drew over nothing,  Ducks lost but kept it exciting through the 9th.  Fireworks after the game. A fun Saturday night.