My Mother

I got the call today, my mother said she wanted to talk to me for a few minutes, I knew something wasn't right.
When she fell down over two weeks ago and cracked her head open, she had an MRI done, well they found something, she has a spot on her upper right side of her lungs. She has a few more test that need to be done this week and a week from this Tuesday she'll be going in for a biopsy, going threw her nose, down her throat. They will take what they need and let her know what is going on.

One week later

It's been a quiet week, well sort of, at work, week two of the yearly audit is over and only two more weeks to go. Another hurricane hits the USA, it looks like major damage happened in Texas and Louisiana. When I see the damage done by the storms I'll take a snow storm anytime.

Day after Hanna

We waited all day for the storm to hit and all we got was about one inch of rain but strong winds. The only damage we had was a three foot tall pot with a four foot red grass in next to the front door on the deck, that fell over and broke. The stretch of road in front of the house looks like a pond right now with all the birds going into it. That should be gone before the day is over. I have a couple of picture but the camera is the car and will load them in later.

Plans for NYC in October

I've book our flights - Leaving Boston 17 October in the morning and returning on 20 October in the late afternoon. I booked two hotels - The Kimberly Hotel on E 50th street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue and The Affina 50 on E 50th Street ans 3rd Avenue. I like them both just not sure which one I'll cancel. The only thing is one is just a bit less than the other.
On Friday 17 October we'll be seeing The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Westside Theater Upstairs. Five rows from the stage.
On Sunday 19 October we'll be seeing Altar Boyz at Stage 4 at the New World Stages.
Saturday nor sure what we'll be doing I was hoping for someone that I knew at Birdland Jazz club but I don't know the two guys playing. Not sure if we should see another play or hit Cleopatra's Needle or Arthur's Tavern. Wish there was someone to ask for some feed back on a good place for jazz.
Now I have to plan on what restaurants to go to. I want to go to Bill's Gay 90'son E 54th Street.
Great grilled Tuna and free range Chicken.

I got a welcoming at work today

Not only was Jean Enos, my manager, wearing a red top and red shoes but a pink bra - she warned all of us she was PMSing - Jean didn't have to tell us we all know what it means when she is wearing red, oh what a day we'll all be having. Jean just let out did you hear that, I dropped another egg.

Traffic on Route 3 durning the morning commute

Traffic coming off the Cape in the morning is a lot lighter than it has been all summer, once the snowbird leave for a warmer climate there will be even less traffic. This morning we made good time until we passed exit 15 and the traffic just slowed to a crawl. Sometimes it can take 30 minutes or more from exit 16 to just pass exit 17 (it's about 3 miles between them).

Transfer Station on Tuesday evening

It doesn't get better than this on a Tuesday after work, first we stop at Whole Foods Market in Hingham just off of Rt. 3. Nothing like walking out of Whole Food with two small bags of groceries at a cost of $100.00 or more each time we go. Someday we'd like to spend a little less, okay sometime we do spend a lot less and go to Stop & Shop the trade off can sometimes be nice. The the best part of the evening is going to the transfer station aka the dump. There is the main station for just trash, then all the other stops that I make. I recycle almost everything I can. Paper, plastic, glass, cardboard, and metals, it's amazing what can be recycled. At first I wasn't keen on doing much more than paper, but after living in Somerville for several years, the kingdom of recycling, I got into it and think it's the way to go.

This is the road to the tranfer station.


Here I am waiting in line to drop off my trash.

I'm next to pull into the shed to throw the bag of trash over the railing into a huge dumpter down below.