songbird's crazy world

     (There always has to be an airplane…) #skyeatchfriday

They’ve got a set up on the front lawn.  I guess that’s what happens when you don’t have a porch. But a volleyball net on the front lawn?  I can only speculate … Quite a setup in this front yard. That white pole on the right, behind the bench…it’s a child’s swing set. The Levitt houses were built on slab foundations.  But it looks like this new house might have a basement. Lots of construction in the neighborhood… But the house where the fire was last year is still boarded up. And after my walk I come home to … this.  

 I know I’ve been going on ad nauseam  about weight loss…but I’m really preoccupied with the subject, and really amazed… If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile you know my history.  I was overweight as a teen, more so in my 20’s.  I gained a considerable amount of weight with my first baby, and added to that with the second.  I was, to put it bluntly, morbidly obese.   I struggled with my weight for years.  In 2008 I lost 75 pounds, then self sabotaged and regained the weight.  Lost that same 75 pounds in 2016, and regained it.  And then, in 2022, I started taking weight loss medication, and it changed my life.   I’ve lost 125 pounds.  I’m still about 40 pounds over my ideal weight, and I’ve hit a diet plateau.   But  I feel good.  I weigh less now than I did when I got married in 1987.  I feel a lot healthier at 65 than I did at 55.  There are things I can do now that I wasn't able to do before the weigh...

 Today, July 2, Drew got a phone call from Costco, telling him they were ready to deliver the grill he ordered from Sears two months ago….

 We haven’t had much luck with baseball and weather this year. We went to Citi Field to see the Mets, and it rained. We had a rain delay but a complete game. Our first trip to see the Ducks was on a cold night.  Our second trip was cold and rainy. Which brings us to last night. Long Island Ducks versus Staten Island Ferryhawks.  They call it the Battle of the Belt, a reference to the Belt Parkway, a highway that runs through from Long Island into Queens and Brooklyn, connecting to the Verrazano Bridge and Staten Island. We drove out to the ballpark and the weather was warm and sunny.   But by the time the Ducks took the field … They played three innings in the rain before calling a rain delay. They played three of the sloppiest innings of baseball I have ever seen. We were ahead 6-2 before the rain got too heavy to play. And then … during the rain delay …  Most people left after that.  We stayed. The managers and the umpires conferred. Both dugouts cleared....

 So we’ve done four shows, with the final show to be presented Thursday night.  Did you know  Gilbert & Sullivan were political satirists? Main character Sir Joseph is a cabinet minister, the First Lord of the Admiralty.  Listen to the lyrics of his song.  (I’m posting a video of a professional company so you can really hear the lyrics.) Remind you of anyone (I’m looking at you, Pete Hegseth)?