songbird's crazy world

 So the mechanic called, my car was fixed and ready to be picked up. So Drew drove me to the shop.   The car is still at the mechanic’s. Computer glitch.  I wanted to use my credit card to pay.  My bank’s computer wouldn’t talk to the mechanic’s.  I have to go back tomorrow. Drew didn’t want to leave until the credit card problem was sorted out, but he had to go to rehearsal.   The shop is about 2.5 miles from our house.  I regularly walk 2 or 3 miles when I walk around the neighborhood.  It was a nice afternoon.  I decided to walk home. So I got to see parts of the neighborhood I hadn’t seen before. I had to walk about a mile before I was back on familiar streets. A unique lawn ornament. A couple of interesting houses. I love the name of this church. St. Bernard. I saw a robin  And a low flying plane. Three days ago this was a house.  I knew something was happening when I saw that the property was fenced off. Like we really need an...

It’s cold and dreary again.  We get a few days of summer, and then it reverts to misery.  Sigh. And don’t ask about my car.  Or the saga of the gas grill.  But baseball … watching the Mets … the first place Mets … is exciting. I haven’t mentioned my weight loss efforts in awhile.  I hit a plateau.  The numbers on the scale didn’t change.  It was a bit frustrating.  But Monday morning … I got on the scale and I’d lost 3 pounds.  That’s not a lot, but … well, it brings my weight down to a number I haven’t seen since I was in my 20’s.  It feels so good.  I have been trying for so long … It’s fun to buy clothes again. When the weather is nasty and I can’t take a walk, I use fitness videos on YouTube,  I’m actually craving the movement.   I feel like a different person. 

 The house that I kept talking about, the one where the Christmas decorations stayed up until Good Friday?  There’s a huge “congratulations graduate” display on the lawn.  I think it might be a college graduation, there’s no indication of which school they’re graduating from.  I’ll try to post a picture later.  We went out to dinner Saturday night.   Nothing fancy, just a casual sit down place.  A chain restaurant. No reservations, but you can join the waitlist on the website and wait in your car, they’ll text you when your table is ready.  They started doing this during Covid to keep the waiting area from getting overcrowded.  Just another way the pandemic changed all our lives. Drew watched on his phone as we went from #19 to #18 to #15 on the list …until finally our table was ready. The place also has a gluten sensitive menu.  Much appreciated. The restaurant was in Farmingdale, just down the road from Republic Airport. It’s a small, ...

And today’s theme … I’m sure you’ll figure it out … Yeah, I admit to being a bit obsessed…

 I always hate it when one of our favorite restaurants closes.  Even more so if it’s a local business, not a chain. Back in 2019 we found a quirky sandwich shop called Irving’s Pastrami.  Real mom and pop shop.  Food was great, different from anyplace else, but the business really didn’t fit with the vibe of the neighborhood.  So they relocated, which brought the store closer to where we live.  At the beginning of April we decided to get food from Irving’s.  The shop was closed, and a sign on the door said  they would reopen the second week of April.  They didn’t.  Google marked them as “temporarily closed”. Yesterday their website disappeared, and Yelp says the business is permanently closed. Their social media is gone, too. I can only speculate. Sigh.  

  Hold On  Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! Saturday 9: Hold On (1990) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here .     1) This song gives encouragement to someone who is enduring heartache. Have you more recently given support, or received it? My friend has a difficult relationship with her mother-in-law.  Mother-in-law just entered hospice care, family members are flying in from various parts of the country, and things are obviously tense.  I’m trying to be a supportive friend.    2) "Hold On" is featured prominently in th...