songbird's crazy world

 So, the nor’easter.  Not too bad here, just some damage to our neighbor’s fence Friday night, which he repaired Saturday afternoon.  Other parts of the island experienced downed trees, flooding and power outages.   Still, we hunkered down, ordered takeout from the local pizza place (they have excellent gluten free pizza and pasta!) Saturday night, and watched  TV — lots of stuff on the DVR. one thing Drew and I watched was an episode of a documentary series he’s been recording from PBS.  It’s a series on the history of New York City, and the episode we watched started with 9/11, quickly moved to the financial crisis of 2008 and Occupy Wall Street , then on to Superstorm Sandy in 2012 before focusing  on the pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd, and ending with the election of Mayor Mamdani and the Knicks winning the championship in 2026. As two suburbanites who once lived and/or worked in the city, the stories told in the episode are so f...

 So, if you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I am a fan of the Long Island Ducks, who play baseball in the independent Atlantic League.  The league championship is a best-of-five series where the winner of the North Division faces the winner of the South Division.  The Ducks won the North Division, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs took the South. So the first two games were played in Maryland, and the Ducks won both.   Gane three was set for Long Island tonight, with Game four tomorrow (if necessary) and Game five Sunday (if necessary). We bought tickets for Games three and four. We planned to go to the Renaissance Faire Sunday, unless there was a Game five. But then … the forecast called for a nor’easter to hit the region this weekend.  A bad storm, with high winds, rain, and flooding, to start late Friday evening and to continue throughout the weekend.  Most weekend events — concerts, sporting events, fans and festivals— cancelled or po...

  Don't Take Your Love from Me      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 to answer the questions, however, and here are today's questions! Saturday 9: Don't Take Your Love from Me (1956) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1) In this song, Doris Day sings about what happens when you take a petal from a rose. When did you last get or give flowers as a gift? I love getting flowers.  I love buying flowers for myself.  My cat Shadow sees a vase full of flowers and thinks “that’s a yummy salad” .   2) This song is about a woman who fears losing her love. What's the ...

 That hissing and yowling you heard the other day … that was Miss Moon Shadow while I was clipping her nails ….she needed a manicure desperately…she almost put a hole in my brand new leggings … Both cats are enjoying our new couch. But they both want to know what happened to the old couch, the one with all the claw marks …

 It’s sweater weather! So I ordered two pair of jeans from Old Navy …same size I previously bought …I have to return them they’re too big! Do you know what kind of joy that is for someone who used to weigh 130 pounds more than she does now? I mean, they’re supposed to be baggy, but really … Got the shoe expanders, using them on the boots right now.  I think they’ll be fine.  The new season of Survivor has begun.  My guilty pleasure.  I watch alone, Drew can’t stand the show. But then, there are shows he likes that I won’t watch. But we both love baseball.   Our Long Island Ducks are in a best-of-five championship series against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs.  The Ducks won game one in Maryland last night.  Game two in Maryland tonight, followed by games three, four and five (if necessary) on Long Island.  We have tickets for game three Friday night and game four Saturday. But our weekend plans are in jeopardy.  We might get hit with a...

 It’s fall, y’all.  Happy autumnal equinox.  And the weather is suddenly cooler.  Jacket weather!  Break out the boots! Halloween decorations starting to pop up on lawns.  I’m loving it.  I always love the change of seasons. But this means we will have to bundle up for the baseball games this weekend.  Ducks versus Blue Crabs.  Should be fun. Full moon tonight.  The harvest moon, I bought a shoe stretching kit for the boots. Hope it works. Yoga class tonight.  And maybe Planet Fitness tomorrow- yes, I finally went back.  My sister insists that I need to use weight lifting machines at the gym to build muscle and prevent bone loss, and the things I’ve been doing aren’t enough.  She goes to the gym all the time, she’s much stronger than I am.  But she doesn’t do any flexibility or balance work, and she said she needs to start.  I think convinced her to try yoga.  Fall prevention, you know. Too many people we kn...