Ramblings

 One of the reasons I was so excited about the farm stand (other than the obvious) … there used to be a farm stand in Melville called “Meyer’s Farm”.  I suspect it was owned by the same family as own the store in Woodbury.  While the farm stand in Woodbury is just a store, the place in Melville had a few small fields.   They grew pumpkins on site.  My dad used to take us there for our Halloween pumpkins.  Later, I took my own children for pumpkins, hay rides and pony rides.  It’s a public park now.

And yes, the cauliflower was really good. And yes, those three small pumpkins in my yard came from Meyer’s.

We had a nice number of trick-or-treaters yesterday.  It was unseasonably warm so I really got to see costumes.  Best one was a dinosaur, best group were kids dressed as minions from Despicable Me, cutest was the newborn in the pumpkin onesie.

The ring doorbell crowd … they’re all complaining about candy thieves,  same complaint every year.  If you leave a bowl of candy out for trick-or-treaters, chances are someone will take the whole bowl.  And by that don’t just mean the candy, I mean the actual bowl itself.  Don’t these people ever learn?

Levittown used to be potato farms, did you know that?

I found some interesting historical markers here in Levittown. A remnant of the Gilded Age. The site of a piece of Vanderbilt Parkway.  

Vanderbilt Parkway still exists. Or, at least, a portion of it does.  It starts at Half Hollow Road in Dix Hills and ends in Lake Ronkonkoma. The high school I attended is located on Vanderbilt Parkway …

OK, enough nostalgia. I found an oddity while walking through the neighborhood. Teal Lane.

Do you see what’s so odd about it?  There’s only one house with a Teal lane address.  The street is very short.  There are three houses whose side yards face Teal, but only one house that faces Teal and has a Teal Lane address.  Nothing remarkable about any of the houses, but I did think it was a bit odd…

When you walk around this neighborhood you might notice the planes overhead.  I’ve captured some of them in my photos, and my Ring camera seems to pick up blinking lights in the sky.  We’re not far from JFK and LaGuardia, and of course there’s MacArthur Airport out east …and Republic in Farmingdale…I’ve mentioned that my house is under a flight path.  But I only hear the planes overhead at night.

This one was right over my head when I took a walk.

You could tell he was turning towards JFK.

No winder I can hear them at night.