friday at the green market

marisa and i walked to the green market this morning and bought lots of bread from lost bread company (pretzel shortbread, seeded rye with raisins, a pullman loaf) along with gorgeous beets, cauliflower, kale and a sunshine kabocha squash.

(it was cold today! and the wind made it feel even colder.)

 

 we also passed the faculty of the new school who were striking for better wages and benefits.

marisa always has the best tea . . this was a special black tea (i think from rishi).

this week

keeping an eye on the birds that fly past the fire escape . .

morgan's friends are in town, visiting from london. they arrived saturday evening and are here for a week. we had a nice get together tuesday evening for which i made a vegetarian chili and they brought a delicious chocolate cake and ice cream for dessert. victoria joined us after a busy day of sorting through books and papers at her storage unit.

the kittens are enjoying the comfy space morgan made for them on the bookcase. amazingly, they slept here while we ate without bothering us.

my friend ron works as an extra for many different projects that film in the city and this year he is part of the screen actors guild nominating committee, and so received two guest tickets for the very first screening of the movie babylon. (this was yesterday, wednesday). the part i enjoyed most was the discussion afterwards with the director and actors.

funny little cricket who hopped into the kitty litter tray after i finished cleaning it and didn't want to get out.

 

 morgan and harley stopped by in the late afternoon today, early evening (it was dark out already), with an amp they had found on the sidewalk and stayed for tea and a chat and playtime with the kittens. last night they all had dinner at korrina's restaurant and i enjoyed hearing about the amazing dishes that were created for them. their favorite was the pear tart with oat pastry cream, sherry crumble and apple.

chanda is slowly improving, but a low fever has been persisting and she now has a painful sore throat. i'm hoping tomorrow she will feel a little less achy with no fever. pluto has been enjoying having her home more and cuddling together. (but she missed having any kind of celebration on her birthday, wednesday, the 16th, when i went to the movies.)

greg, i and victoria had a nice dinner together at home this evening and enjoyed talking about past days in the village before the twin towers and battery park city were even built (when victoria first moved here in the early '70's), and before the river park was created (greg and i in the late '80's). i'm hoping she finds some old photos of the neighborhood when going through her boxes.

it has been cold outside!! 40 degrees today and on tuesday and wednesday it felt like snow . . (there were flurries yesterday which i missed seeing as i was watching the film). i know it's even colder by eva and i'm sure she has had a decent amount of snow already (!). the point i want to make is that just last saturday i was wearing sandals and a t-shirt (and jeans) as we drove out to the house.

saturday and sunday by the sea

it was time for a visit out east . .

i'm not sure if it really helps to acclimate the cats to just the bathroom at first, but i've been giving it a try since it was recommended by the cat cafe. of course these two were ready to move on to other rooms within minutes it seemed . .

 

 

cricket and greg watching the florida state university football game together (it was a late game and began at 8 pm). thankfully, florida state has been winning lately. i hate it when they lose because then i have to hear all sorts of sarcastic and whiny remarks from this guy . .

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a rainy sunday morning . . 

watching the raindrops . .

 

and then it was time to head back to the city, stopping at hampton chutney where greg picked out a curry chicken sandwich for the car and i picked out a dosa masala delux for at home.

oh . . and there was a lot of meowing in the car. the kittens were not quite as good at traveling as pluto . .  i hope they improve!

halloween decorations

these painted pumpkins and squash were on the steps of marisa's apartment building . . 

 

something is watching you . .

friday night

waiting for their dinner . . 

 

i was at the center again today . . ridley was happier because jack was far away from his favorite perch so he could nap in peace, and fluffy had a new friend named sailor who was as good-natured as he.

our dinner . . salad, chicken and spaghetti squash with tomato sauce and parmesan.

 

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and we heard from lisa-lou . . she wrote that she was back in paris and was sitting on the steps of her favorite bridge, contemplating her exciting times in nyc and florida. in addition to seeing the turtles at the loggerhead marine life sanctuary, she went for a boat ride in the everglades and saw many more alligators (!).

at the center

there were a lot of new cats at the center today. abigail came in to say hi while i was in the second cat room, and shared about how sweet four year old male cat fluffy is, and how he seems to be more of a fred than a fluffy. i certainly agreed with that. when i entered his space this afternoon, he immediately greeted me with several meows and stretched out his paws as if wanting to shake hands. he wanted to play along with garbo, but garbo didn't like sharing the wand toy and hissed so he went away (we later were able to get some wand toy fun in together). two adorable black kittens were in wire cubbies (fancy names for the cages which are large and roomy) and they enjoyed bopping the butterfly toy. sweetie was truly a sweetie and kept purring at me through the bars. in this second room they rotate which cats are out, as they all don't get along together. the next two hour shift would probably find other taking a turn. while i was there today, a young couple came in and adopted garbo! it was exciting to see them walk out with her with big smiles on their faces. fluffy's reaction was interesting to me, as after garbo left he kept meowing and went over and sniffed at her little house that she had been sleeping in. he was definitely aware that she was no longer in the room. he's such a friendly fellow.

 

 

sweetie . . 

magik . . 

 

carver . . 

fluffy . . 

garbo . .

garbo and fluffy . .

jack . . the new kid on ridley's block . .

ridley giving me the evil eye, saying "get this jack cat out of my space."

it was nice to see ridley again today . . though he played with me only for a very little while. he was more irritable than usual, and i think it was because of this new fellow jack. ridley likes to be left alone and jack was bumbling around in a friendly manner which ridley didn't appreicate . . come to think of it, sakura was irritable too and hissed at ridley through her wire cubby. oh, the drama! nina stayed hidden in the back in a drawer.

cat shenanigans on election day

 

i put this photo up on my instagram page and labeled it "double trouble."

 

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korrina and chanda came over for breakfast after which we all visited our polling place (ps 3 this year)  . . 

where we ran into kendall on her way out.

chanda wasn't feeling well and worried that she had covid as her friend had tested positive for it just yesterday . . 

afterwards, i did some grocery shopping with chanda, morgan went to a dance reherasal, and korrina visited the wine store and then met chanda and i at the butcher shop.

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in the evening i visited with kendall and janine:

and with minerva as she went on her hallway rounds . . 

aurélien was feeling a little under the weather today also.

good night minerva.