trying on shirts with greg and the cats (with a cameo appearance from laura nyro)

wedding bell blues . . 

at the mets game

greg and korrina went to the mets game at citifield this evening.

it was a fun time even though the mets lost . . 

"support" pickles to get through a losing game . . 

homeward bound view . . 

milly, deviled eggs, wash the cat again, and pics from vermont

 

it was another warm day. milly was not happy that she had to wear her sunshirt, but her fur is thin on her back and we don't want her to get sunburned. she looks quite pitiful here, doesn't she? povera milly!

i don't have any other photos of our walk. no tulips, magnolias, or daffodils today. i noticed that the redbud trees are beginning to sprout, and the cherry trees went from bare to bursting! i think i should get out with my camera tomorrow . . 

i did buy a delicious and refreshing peach iced tea at fellini . . and milly was not neglected. she snacked on the treats i had in my pocket while i sipped my tea.

greg made deviled eggs from the leftover dyed easter eggs we had brought back from connecticut. it was the perfect night for a cold supper (i remember many cold suppers with my parents and my sister on our screened in porch when i was little and it was too hot to sit inside). we also had a kale salad with pomegranate seeds.

(i think it went up to 89 today!)

he dusted the eggs with smoked paprika - so good!

here's another photo of wash relaxing in his cat stand. i don't think korrina has been able to move it to a different area of the room because he's always in it.

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kathy and warren have been in vermont having a belated birthday celebration with jason.

it looks like his birthday gift was a beatles album and a paul simon album. they probably went together to pick them out at the used record store.

a cold and icy day

 

zuzu and . . 

cricket . . keeping an eye on anything that flits by . . 

everything has frozen as it's in the mid 20's today.

greg worked from home and we had lunch together (my plate is reminiscent of my breakfasts at gail's cafe in london on the fulham road where i would get a salami sandwich on a small brioche roll with a pickle).

here are a few pieces from my clay creche that my mom bought for me years ago when greg and i first moved to the neighborhood. there was a lovely shop on west 10th street, across from jefferson market library that sold beautiful pottery from local artisans and from south america. so far the cats are leaving it alone, so i might add the rest of the figures.

and on the piano . . 

greg made deviled eggs this evening to take to his holiday work party tomorrow. he even walked to the container store for three medium size containers to put them in.

they look very yummy!

i mainly packed a small padded envelope for london today . . it takes me ages to do and it will supposedly take three weeks to get there.

chilly days

i met greg after work today and we picked up some groceries before making dinner.

the black eyed susans are beautiful at st. luke in the fields' garden.

it's been very cool! late at night and in the early morning i can feel fall in the air. it takes me back to when the girls and i would visit nana and nonno in the first week of september when everyone else was starting school and we would sit on the beach at south lake and watch the geese fly past, or greet nana and nonno in the evening when they would come down to gin beach to sit with us before heading home for dinner.

i'm sitting at my desk by the open window and i can hear the leaves rustling in the wind outside.

coffee and beckett

korrina and i met at qawah cafe for a pot of their adeni chai tea (black tea, cardamom, nutmeg and milk).

we also shared several savory pastries. at noon she left for work and i stayed and listened in on afsc's noontime action hour (and sent several emails off to my no good senators . . i also called them this morning . . just like i called them yesterday and the day before yesterday . . and last week. but they didn't care. they threw us all under the bus.)

and this evening greg and i attended a play (beckett briefs - not i, play, and krapp's last tape) at the irish rep. it was his birthday gift. (he was very excited and the performances were very good.) it was a fun night.

walking home . . 

(p.s. these posts - since saturday - went up all in one night since the living room, where my computer is, stunk from waterproofing fixture all week.)

lots of photos from today

well . . it's been a crazy few days . . greg has slowly been getting better and also preparing for a colonoscopy this morning. he last had one three years ago. first he thought it would be cancelled as he received an email two days ago saying he couldn't be on anti-inflammatory medication. however, he spoke with his doctor who said the concern was mainly for patients on blood thinners, and the appointment could be kept (which is good because he did not want to reschedule).

we caught the bus at barrow street and rode it downtown to chambers, and then walked east to city hall park and then to william street.

the woolworth building, once the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1929. (you can read more about it here.)

st. paul's chapel . . (built in 1766 and manhattan's oldest surviving church building) . . 

all went well at the appointment . . the doctor said everything was "beautiful" (no polyps this time) and greg doesn't have to return again for five years. 

walking back uptown to a diner on warren street . . 

this pigeon was having a fine time doing his own thing and having a bath . . 

finally some food and hot coffee at the gee whiz diner . . 

there was a very cute little three year old girl at the table behind us who was singing happy birthday to a friend over the phone and also "the sun will come out tomorrow" from annie. both she and her grandmother were dressed completely in pink. they were very cheery and friendly.

walking past the federal style townhouses . . 

the two giant sturgeon at pier 26 . . 

found in the city's waters: (starting from the left) striped bass, northern sea robin, barnacles/gribbles/and shipworms on piles, american eel, lined sea horse, oyster toad fish, oyster cluster, red bearded sponge, blue crab, blue and ribbed mussels, red algae.

resting . . 

we passed a few of these assortment of snacks with a drink. someone must have left them out for another someone.

in the late afternoon i ran out for ingredients for a lunch for korrina tomorrow. she'll be thirty one. 

!!