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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted December 27, 2016 09:37 PM
This is kind of a follow-up to the New York tour I did here last summer. As I noted, like many people from New York, I never visit a lot of our stuff. A couple of years ago I turned down a chance to visit Red Square because I’d already been there. I’ve been to the Hofbrau Haus in Munich twice: Empire State Building?—once, 30 years ago. World Trade Center: never.
As of this morning I had never, never, never been to the Statue of Liberty!
As I predicted, this would change because someone from out of town wanted to go: It turned out to be my sister and her family from Pennsylvania.
First stop on the ferry was Ellis Island:
Like many Americans, I am descended from people who came through this place.
-although when my Grandfather came here in 1923 it looked more like this: (actually I think my Grandfather could see in color…)
They have a computer database there of who came in when and off which ship. Sure enough:
It's so hard to imagine my grandfather as a 19 year old. It seems to me he was born at about 53! (By the way: his hometown is really called "Wiesloch", and I've been there twice too!)
-but the goal of the day was still within sight:
So with the sun in my eyes and that late December wind in my face:
Time to go home:
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Steve Klare
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posted December 31, 2016 08:54 PM
Happy New Year!
(-live from our den!)
We have New Years Eve down in the den with the fireplace every year.
When we bought this house, this room is what made the sale. The original owners built a new garage on the side of the house, blew through the wall into the original garage and made this very nice den with a fireplace. The first decade of our marriage this was basically headquarters of our house and we relaxed in front of the fire many a cold winter's night.
Years back we redid the living room level and added a fireplace there too: a gas fireplace, with a remote. There is no firewood, no ash to clean, no damper, no chimney...as easy as slipping a disk in a player.
So the original fireplace is cool a lot more often than it once was.
The den became my son's domain for a long time: Thomas the Tank Engine, and later Wii and X-box 360, but with New Years Eve every year for all of us.
-lately I've decided to reclaim this room for the adults. That odd white tube leaning on the right is the Da-Lite screen my wife gave me for Christmas. When I get the brackets it will hang up between the ceiling beams and pull down in front of the fireplace. I'll also keep "Theater One" upstairs, but at least now it won't be a strict choice of "watching movies" OR "watching TV", now both can coexist.
-but for tonight we will once again gather by the hearth and ring in our 25th New Year in this house!
Peace and Blessings to all!
[ December 31, 2016, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]
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Steve Klare
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Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted February 10, 2017 03:05 PM
We had a blizzard yesterday…
Two days ago if you looked out the window, you would have seen a bare brown lawn, maybe a shred of our deceased Christmas display, but no snow! This changed in kind of a hurry Thursday morning. A Pennsylvania-sized white blob was headed east on the weather map and it hit us long and hard: more than a foot in 8 hours!
This was my chance to wheel out one of my less-beloved toys: our snow blower. This came to us because our old electric one was growing frail and I decided it was time to take it out behind the barn and put it out of its (well…MY ) misery.
-interesting contraption: We don’t have a lot to clear, so I got a fairly small gasoline powered one. It is more than capable! In the old days I used to spend a couple of hours clearing the driveway maybe seven feet wide, line the cars up and fall into a snow drift getting out. With this snarling beast we are more than two cars wide in maybe an hour. When the wind blows a shower of snow back at you, you still want to go to Hawaii until April, but at least you are done quicker and better!
One lesson learned is you have to let it cool before you bring it into the garage: if it’s still hot it stinks the whole house up!
My son and I are home. My wife works at a hospital and they don’t have snow days. She suggested when I went out to do a little cleanup I bring the 14 year old with me and try putting him at the helm!
He said it was “fun”! (Here we differ: My own Dad used to ask "D'you want to cut the lawn?". I replied: "No...".)
This is great! Maybe in a winter or two I can stand in the window and complain “That’s not the way we did it in MY day!” (-With my hot cup of coffee and dry clothing!)
-Next Summer: The Lawn Mower!
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