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  • My Neighborhood

    My Neighborhood

    I live in a floating home, in a moorage, in a city. It’s the one place I have lived the longest since I left New York City, where I was born and raised. I fell in love with it because it met my desires to be in the country and in a city – and here I can do both at the same time. Being on the river has a very country feel to it. I often compare it to camping but with indoor plumbing. And heat. And Internet. And every store I need within quick driving distance. 

    But I am also in a city and I can be in the downtown area in a short time period.

    MY NEIGHBORHOOD

    My House

    My house is what I call a 2-part home. The main structure and what is known as a tenderhouse.

    My Moorage

    This is a summer evening looking out at what I call my backyard.

    Part of My Garden

    Everything I grow has to be in pots. These are my nasturtiums and some of my other plants in the back with the dog sniffing them.

    My Dog

    No part of my life here can be presented without a picture of Tova. She loves living here, playing tennis, and being able to walk along the levee.

    But as with most places in my life,  I move on. The pandemic has shown me that I don’t want to live here anymore. Which surprised me. I want a backyard. I want a big garden. I want a different kind of lifestyle and neighborhood. And that will happen.

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  • My Father’s Impacts

    My Father’s Impacts

    LIFETIME IMPACTS

    I have been thinking a lot about the past – who and what impacted me and in what way. It’s hard to remember all of this because I’ve lived a long time. That in itself is a good thing, but it means that some of the things that impacted me were so long ago that my memories are distorted.

    My Father and Reading

    My father died when I was in my 20s, and I never realized his major impact on me until years later. 

    My father’s life was typical for his time. He finished the eighth grade and he went to apprentice with his father as a photoengraver. A job he held until he died. Worked for a major New York City newspaper and I realized that he was responsible for my having my nose buried in words for my entire life. Because he worked for a newspaper, in those days all the other newspapers left copies of their papers for the employees of the other papers – and so he came home from work every night with lots of newspapers. And I read them. 

    My Father and Trivia

    Crossword puzzles and almanacs are the part of my life he still impacts.

    And because he worked for a newspaper, he brought home books such as world almanacs, world facts, world whatevers – all compendia of facts. He and I did the NYT crossword puzzle on the kitchen table over coffee every morning as far back as I can remember. I am still addicted to the New York Times crossword puzzles, trivia, and coffee. And I thank him for these parts of me.

    My Father and Home Repair Skills

    My father did a lot of work around the house. He did plumbing carpentry he did some fancy jigsaw work and encouraged me to help him

    I was the kid who knew how to use the table saw when I was very young. I could do some plumbing, I could do a lot of woodworking, and I got interested in a lot of other craft stuff from him. Not to forget my mother who taught me how to knit and crochet and do other stuff – but the skills I learned from my father have saved me much money.

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  • Thinking About The Number 4

    Today is the fourth day of a month. It is also the fourth day in a row that I am writing blog posts because I am getting back on track with writing every day. 

    Number four, I thought, had no real meaning to me. It’s not one of my favorite numbers. I like 3, 5, and 7 [and a few others] so I started thinking about four. What I actually did was go to one of my sites [PresenterMedia] where I can get images. I looked for a bouncy 4 and it was blue so I changed the color to green and voila! I got my idea! 4 seasons!!

    So here we go – 4 seasons!

    MY four: seasons

    Winter

    I love winter. I love winter so much I spent a lot of my adult life living in New England. But then I got tired of all that white stuff under my feet, shoveling it, and all of that so I left. Now I live where I can drive to snow but I don’t get it in my city as much.

    Spring

    I also love spring. I love the flowers growing and the bees are rising but I could get started on my soap box about bees because we don’t have enough of them anymore and they’re dying off. When the bees go the food supply goes but that’s for another blog post.

    Summer

    Summer is not always my favorite season. It really depends on where I live. I do not like hot and I especially do not like hot and humid. And I lived in Washington DC for almost 2 decades so I know hot and humid. I can adapt to it, but I prefer to avoid it.

    Fall

    I do like fall. I love the colorful maple leaves that fall. When I was a kid we collected them and coated them with paraffin so that we could have them forever. 

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  • Oh Those Growing Waists!

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