Month: May 2016

The America’s Cup has come to New York! (I wrote World Cup originally and had to come back and edit my post. Ah, aging.) For the first time in 96 years, I just read. And it will happen right in my neighborhood, so I’m going to walk over to the river and get pictures. Except, it will probably be a mob scene. Well, I will try.

I took this walking down Bleecker Street towards home. My neighborhood can be so quaint.

I forgot to write down what they were filming, but a few blocks in my neighborhood were transformed to look like some year in the past. More pictures follow.

Update: The signs are still up for this shoot, and it’s Rebel in the Rye, directed by Danny Strong who I will adore forevermore for his character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Of course, he’s done a few things since …

I don’t know old cars so I couldn’t really tell from them what year this was supposed to be. I think I guessed 1940s, because to me the phone booth seemed more modern than the cars.

But this play premiered in 1935. Look at the ticket prices! So those of you who guessed 1930s, yay! You win!

I never really learned how to cook, and it mostly just scares me. Also, when you’re cooking for one it often turns out to be less expensive to not cook (with exceptions). But I’ve recently discovered I love beans and even though I buy the healthiest canned beans I can find, this is one food where it would probably be less expensive and definitely healthier to make my own.

I’m starting with my favorite, pinto beans. I didn’t quite time this properly and now I’m afraid they won’t be done before I have to leave for the dentist. Also, I didn’t know they’d swell so much in the pre-soak and I’m going to have sixteen trillion tons more than I can eat.

Proof of my cook-age. Note how clean my stove is. My annual Spring Cleaning was a couple of weeks ago. It’s still quite shiny over here.

A couple of days ago I thanked the the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for an article they sent, but I just learned that I must also thank Jackie Willoughby, the New York Public Library ILL Borrowing Supervisor who processed my request for this article! Thank you so much Jackie! I really had given up on finding this article, and I’ve since read it and have already used it in the book I’m currently writing about Blackwell’s Island.

This turtle was watching me! He looks mad. I am never going to Central Park again.

A pair of falcons who live at 55 Water Street are hatching five eggs. Three have hatched, but that was almost a week ago. I’m worried about the last two eggs. I don’t know if it’s normal that there would be so much time between egg hatchings.

You can watch the baby falcons yourself here. I got this cute shot a couple of days ago.