songbird's crazy world

 I took a walk at lunchtime yesterday.  Did three laps around the building but I had to cut the walk short because of the rain. We have had so much bad weather this summer!  I’m sick of rain. We have tickets for tonight’s Mets game …which may get cancelled due to weather.  I just hope that they decide to cancel before we drive to Queens, not after we’re at the ballpark. More likely we’ll have a rain delay in the middle of the game… Maybe we’ll have better luck for the Ducks game Sunday. Yeah, I’m skipping my yoga class to watch the disaster known as the NY Mets.  The last session of the summer is August 4.  Next week. I plan to keep doing yoga via YouTube videos, but I will miss going to a live class. I’ve been seeing a lot of news articles about GLP-1 medications.  Apparently they’re not just for diabetes and weight loss.  They help with sleep apnea and fatty liver disease.  And apparently there was a study about osteoarthritis of the knees,...

 We saw The Odessey  Sunday morning.  It was the only time last  weekend where we could get tickets for the movie.  Really, it’s the blockbuster of the summer,  the accolades are well deserved.  See it in IMAX if you can, the cinematography is incredible.   Next week we’re seeing the new Spiderman movie.  A double dose of Tom Holland,  I love knowing that our first responders are there if we need them … but I hate seeing them on my street. On Saturday there were no less than 3 police cars, a paramedic vehicle and two ambulances - one from the police department and the other from a volunteer ambulance service at the scene of 5he accident- a man lost control of his bicycle, fell into the street and hit his head.  They were loading him into the ambulance when I walked by.  A couple of people were looking under the parked cars for the guy’s wallet.   Yes, even with our busy weekend, I was able to get in a couple of walks. ...

The Gold Coast mansions of Long Island.  Think “Gilded Age”.  Think The Great Gatsby.   Opulent mansions, relics of a long-gone lifestyle. Many of  the estates still exist, as museums, event venues, etc. The Nassau County Museum of Art   is located in Roslyn Harbor.  It occupies 145 acres that were once part of a farm owned by William Cullen Bryant. The main house, known as the Frick House, serves as an art gallery, but there are. also formal gardens and a sculpture garden, as well as nature trails. Right now the museum is featuring an exhibit of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, who was a renowned painter before turning his attention to more commercial forms of art.  At one time Tiffany lived in Laurel Hollow, about 10 miles from the museum.(Tiffany’s mansion was destroyed by fire in 1957.) The exhibit features many of Tiffany’s paintings — he recorded his travels throughout the Middle East and North Africa — but also features the lamps and other pr...

Billy joel on my mind today

 So the weather was perfect  a walk at the beach. The East Bathhouse has reopened after two years of renovations, so of course we chose to walk in that direction. We saw lots of seagulls, as always. And I finally got a picture of the tunnel that connects the parking lot to the beach, These tunnels run under Ocean Parkway.  The acoustics … yeah, real echo chamber. Interesting thing happened near Field 6.  We saw a large group gathered on the sand, and they were all holding books.  Drew said “it looks like a prayer group.” A moment later, several members of the group stood up, and the leader began a prayer.,. Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei rabbah … as soon as I heard the opening phrase of the Mourner’s Kaddish, I had to stop walking and join the prayer. Shabbat shalom. (Of course I lit candles when we got home.) As we were leaving we had to drive past the theater, so we got caught in the traffic heading to the Tim McGraw concert.  But otherwise it was a great ...

 Another one bites the dust.  A Chinese restaurant we’ve gone to many times suddenly and unexpectedly closed.  Sigh.  I’ve barely gotten started on my summer plans but I’m already seeing autumn and Halloween merchandise in the stores.  I like autumn, I love Halloween, but come on … We’re invited to a wedding on Halloween. Yes, really, it’s at a winery on the North Fork, a winery Drew and I really like. The couple’s website says 98 days until the wedding.  Dress code is casual, wear a costume if you like.  Should be fun. My cousin had a  Halloween-themed wedding  back in October 2013.  I loved their cake. They honeymooned in Salem, MA.  Of course.  Just found out that next month  music star Candelita a/k/a former NY Met Jose Iglesias is joining the cast of a Broadway show, Buena Vista Social Club .  Remember him? I’m wondering if we should try to get tickets.