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Mr. Met's favorite movies are:
1. Major League
2. Bull Durham
3. The Natural
4. Pride of the Yankees
5. Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Mr. Met's favorite non-baseball movie is Once Upon a Time in the West. Here he is doing his best Woody Strode imitation. At first I thought it was a Charles Bronson imitation but Mr. Met insisted it was Woody Strode, even though Woody doesn't last too long in the movie.
The onion head was sitting on top of stuffed grape leaves at Sido on the Upper West Side. A decent shawarma gyro (lamb) can be had for $5.50. Not nearly as good as the great turkey shawarma's Ali Baba serves a few blocks away, but half the price and they're open on Friday evenings.
I'm taking the day off because a) I want to and b) I need to be home for some window repairs. Mr. Met is feeling camera shy this morning. Maybe he will show up, maybe he will hide in the closet when the repair guy arrives.
In a little less than a month I'll be in Alaska. One of my destinations is Kodiak Island. I got driving directions from Homer to Kodiak from Google Maps. The ferry trip takes 9.5 hours, but Google estimates that it takes less than six hours by driving. Even though the car would save me several hours my gut instinct is to stick with the ferry.
A glimpse of the Richard Meier designed federal courthouse in Central Islip. It can be seen from miles away. Do you see a granite curtain wall? It adds majesty.
Unrelated: There was a couple ordering cold cuts at the Fairway deli counter this evening. He orders a quarter-pound of honey ham. She asks for 1/8 of a pound of roast turkey. The deli guy says that Fairway has a 1/4 pound minimum. The couple get into an intense discussion. Should they get the quarter-pound of turkey? Or, should they forget the turkey and get a bit more honey ham? If they get the turkey who will eat it? Finally, they decide to get a quarter-pound of each. Whew!
The Triangle
I took a little detour on the drive home on Sunday to visit a place I hadn't seen since August 1972. I lived in the house in the second photo until I was 11 years old. My parents added the second floor to the house. When we lived there the house was white stucco with green trim and shutters. Although the windows are small on this side of the house the other side had picture windows off the living and dining rooms.
The triangle is a plot of land where Van Bomel Blvd. and Chateau Dr. intersect. It was a convenient playground for kids in the neighborhood. At the time it was sort of a no-man's land with weeds. The weeds would grow high enough, and we were small enough, that you could easily hide in them. The town would come by and mow it once or twice a summer.
The Idle Hour neighborhood was once the estate of William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt. A number of the original (1880-1890) buildings, many designed by Richard Morris Hunt, still stand. Dowling College occupies many of the larger buildings. Our house was one of the lesser original buildings. A childhood friend of mine, though, lived at the Palm House.
Early Friday morning my sister sent me an email saying she and her family were going to be at Aunt Mary's this weekend and that I should meet them there. A good time was had by all. We ate lots of food, watched "The Sound of Music", played baseball, played with balloons and ate a lot of food (redundancy intentional).
In case anyone is hungry I'm serving a giant dish of Aunt Mary's baked ziti tomorrow night.
Mr. Met likes to keep in touch with former Mets. It was thirty-five years ago today that Tom Terrific struck out a then-record 19 San Diego Padres, including the last 10 batters (still a record for most consecutive strike-outs!).
There are several photos on my hard drive that I've been meaning to put online for quite some time. I finally got around to adding the mural detail (above), and several other photos that I took during my Christmas visit, to my Mexico, NY photo album. Joining the mural photos are pictures of the water tower, the traffic lights (both of them), and several churches. It wasn't intentional but I didn't take a photo of the Methodist Church.
Completely unrelated: NWA's Straight Outta Compton Explicit Content Only edit is available for your downloading pleasure. Yes, it is Straight Outta Compton with all the non-curse words removed.
These water striders were caught in the act yesterday afternoon. I noticed there were two of them only after I had uploaded the images to my computer.
Unrelated: Cut yourself? Try one of these bandages.
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