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I had no idea I hadn’t shown up here in so long and hadn’t even mentioned our cruise to The Bahamas and Kennedy space Station. A very nice way to spend a week in December. Here’s some pictures here and some more here.
I almost made a very hostile post the other day aimed at religion and Christmas and Alzheimers and dementia and what happens to us as we get old and relating them all to each other, but never got around to it. I still plan to do this but only when I can think it out better. I then decided to do one about my dad because I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately. Maybe I’ll get around to that tomorrow.
Decided to walk around downtown a couple weeks ago and take some pictures. Downtown has changed so much in the last few years I decided may this and this may need a little update. All the new pictures are here but here and the new and old ones are here. Movieland opened in 2006 and it is awesome.
Ambition Cafe
The 440 Arts building is scheduled to be torn down. the former International Order of Odd Fellows Hall has an awesome facade but the new owner, Transfinder, says it can’t be saved with the upgrades it needs to do so it’s all coming down.
A freaking post card, right?
New Center City Bldg, corner of State and Jay
First Niagara Bank
Former Barneys, now Barneys Square
Parker Hotel
1291 Rugby Rd. Schenectady, NY…It’s been a Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 60′s, a butcher shop, a florist, a dance studio today, and I’m sure countless other things. Recently uncovered, they’re painting over this today so I thought I’d post a picture and subsequently found this old ad on Google from January 20, 1965.
Short road trip today to Vermont and such. Made a wrong turn turn heading north so we just went with it. We did detour once and landed upon Proctor, VT which used to be home to a nearby marble quarry. The above is an arch marble bridge with very intricate detail over Otter Creek. Here are two nicer pictures without snow here and here. It is also home to The Vermont Marble Museum, a marble fire station, a marble post office, a marble church, old factories, and marble businesses, and even a marble sidewalk which we missed due to the snow. In a nearby town, we even saw a marble high school which was too beautiful for words.
FYI…VT Route 3 makes a beautiful road trip
Walking down the street at the beach….yes he does. Can I smoke some of your weed?
I was lovin some Lupies while in Charlotte….
…and we went to see Wicked while in New York. OMG! Still can’t get Defying Gravity out of my mind.
OH! It’s been such a long time since the last blog entry. Since then, I have traveled to North Carolina and back and really had the greatest time seeing so many friends and family though I must admit, it can be quite exhausting. My mom is doing so well and my dad even seems to be doing a little better but not by much. He does seem to take his medicine without any argument now but anything else is like pulling teeth. My mom is a rock….a crazy rock. My niece and nephews are growing up so fast as well as every other kid in my life….SLOW DOWN WHY DON’T YOU!!! A couple of days were detoured spent at the hospital while my aunt recovered from a drug reaction where I (we) thought she was gonna die. I think my mom had prepared herself, my aunt was literally out of her mind. She’s actually doing quite well now. My oldest nephew is officially an adult these days being a great dad and trying to have another….who’d thought? My other nephew just graduated and OMG! he is so much bigger than I am it’s crazy. He’s really a good kid but doesn’t know what he wants to do. My niece is freaking awesome. She came back with me and we went down to the city to see Wicked and sight-see a bit, had a great time and got to get to know her again. I had to work some that week so Duncan took her and his sister to Toronto and Montreal and had a blast I heard. My brother is awesome and I got to spend a good deal of time with him this time….I miss him.
…..and lots of GOOD food! Still missed a lot of people I wanted to see but NC is a big state, but saw Ray, Tommy, Margaret, Luis, Joe, Chris, and Michael & Lara…love you all
2010 turned out to be the year we finally had air conditioning put in, and it’s a good thing too because it’s been the hottest summer we’ve had since we moved up here, sitting in it right now. Spent what has seemed like countless hours working on the front porch and now working on the back one but it doesn’t seen to have the same priority in my mind.
Hiked up to the Kaaterskill Falls last weekend and did a small road trip to Vermont today. Other than that, work at work and work at home.
Walking through Washington Park on a Sunday Morning
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