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How my birthday went
Excellent! Besides doing such exciting things as buying a new lawn mower (no photo), we had a nice dinner together at home after spending part of the morning on the Croton Aqueduct trail. I had been musing over walking the Aqueduct for several weeks, and Brigid gave me a map of it for my birthday…
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Joe’s 21st with his (very photogenic) Angie
We went to dinner tonight for Joe’s 21st birthday at the Indian restaurant in Brewster, Jaipore. Excellent! Here’s are three pix of Joe and Angie – who certainly takes a better picture! It ws a very nice day for Joe’s 21st. Brigid (typical Brigid) found a nine volumn over 100 year old history of India,…
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YIKES! Joe 21 today!
More on this epic later – here’s Joe on June sixth, before our sailing in NY Harbor. More to follow!
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Memorializing John Lillis; Sunday’s lovely event
I mentioned a few days ago that there was going to be an event honoring and celebrating John Lillis, who our community lost in March, 2006, and who I’d posted about back then A bad day in Croton-on-Hudson The event was mostly organized by members of his Cornerstone retreat group, and a couple of other…
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More proof there is a God …
From my friend Joe – If there is no God, why does the earth fit perfectly into a chicken? Proves that God favors Chick-fil-A!?
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3 Yankees: Larsen, Cone and Wells talk about their perfect games
What a great first 3 minute video, especially for Yankee fans And the two following – very fine! Total of 10 minutes for all three. Don Larsen wrote a book a few years ago about his game and about himself, which I loved (got the kindle edition). Here it is – The Perfect Yankee: The…
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Tim’s 2014 track outdoor highlights video is up
The purpose of which is primarily for sending around to interested collegiate track programs. Javelin and shot put, plus PR’s in the squat and bench press. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon he sent me a text as he left the gym – these were the working sets for his bench press that day, after he’d warmed up…
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The vanishing (baseball) screwball
Good feature in this past NY Times magazine section. Today there's only one major league baseball player throwing "the screwgie", to quote Phil Rizzuto. Rizzuto would (as any longtime Yankee fan would know) have been referring to Luis Arroyo and his screwball – and his glittering 1961 season as a Yankee reliever. No reference to…
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First fire pit of the summer
Last night – Fire by Brigid – and a nice big skunk wandered by. Will get his picture next time. These are off my android phone. No light = mediocre picture.