chanda was up and out by 6:45 am for work and greg and i followed at 8:15. she had a break in the rain for her walk but we ran into a deluge and were completely wet by the time we arrived at the cafe (even though greg had an umbrella and i was wearing a raincoat. my feet stayed drive, however - my blundstone boots are very good for rain and snow.)
chanda made me a cappuccino and we both had scones with cream and homemade berry jam.
my view out the window. the restaurant's sidewalk barricades were blowing over even though they were metal. they had to be put away to the side of the building.
interesting plant!
walking home . .
we stopped for an nyc breakfast sandwich at our local deli: a kaiser roll with sunnyside up egg, cheese and bacon. greg had his with scrambled egg and cheese. i was hungry for egg, cheese and bacon after the delicious scone and cappuccino at king.
when we got home, pluto was ready for lunch.
i went out for a walk along the river afterwards. i had seen on someone's instagram post that the river had washed over the wall at high tide around 8:20 am this morning. it's a full moon with this nor'easter so that's not surprising. the same will probably happen again tonight at high tide.
the coastal areas are all flooding . . people are kayaking in queens and howard beach. i'm hoping rockaway isn't too bad. the east end beaches and the jersey shore are getting swamped (i'm thinking of all that sand they hauled in these past two years to build the beaches up!)
we had leftover tacos for dinner and played a round of may i . . and i was able to hold on to my streak. i went out again with all cards down. greg was stuck with a full hand, but chanda said he still probably didn't rack up as many points as she had in the last round (and that was true, she was left with 105 points in the last game, and he only had 90 for this one). we have two more rounds to go.
the storm goes in bursts: there will be rain and howling wind and then it quiets down . . fifteen or twenty minutes later it starts up again. we have a coop shift in the morning . . i wonder if the storm will have finally moved somewhere else by then (the problem is that it is cycling back on itself - it went east all day and now its coming back west again).
good night!
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