To friends & family of Ken and Jackie -
Summer of 2008 has been bracketed by visits from our loved ones. The wonderful Linda Blakey visited in June, bringing her energetic self, her gardening and composting expertise, her willingness to walk many miles in city and country. We saw "In the Heights" the very day it went on to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. She helped me create a perennial bed at the foot of our driveway that will live forever. She taught us how to compost, hopefully turning food scraps into good soil. She observed that we might want to move those 24 tomato plants from one small plot of land, a project that has occupied Ken ever since. Of course, we are now looking at literally 100s of tomatoes in three locations.
The 4th of July rolled around and with it Erica, her three daughters Jessica, Chelsea and Jennifer, our niece Jody and Matthew all the way from Portland, OR. We ate. We shopped. We had a group birthday dinner, complete with a fantastic cake by Matt, cards and a loud song. We saw "Wicked," which was very much fun. Did I say we shopped? Well we shopped. We had a subway car to ourselves. We lost Grandpa Cheese. Matt and I went to the Bronx Zoo, learning as much about the express buses as the gorillas. Matt went to his first dance performance, seeing Pilabolus at The Joyce. It was very cool.
Ken and I had a happy July, watching those tomatoes and that watermelon take over our garden space. Who knew watermelon were so aggressive? We then celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary with a week off and a variety of adventures. We painted 3 bedrooms, 3 metal doors and 1 shed. We swam in the Hudson River, ate Greek food on Lark St., jaunted in our Riviera of the Hudson. We spent 3 nights at the Waldorf=Astoria, courtesy of Ken's Hilton points. We saw "Hair," ate FANTASTIC Chinese food in Flushing to celebrate the Olympics, walked and walked, saw "Man on Wire" and "Swing Vote" and rode Biria bikes up and down a car-less Park Avenue. It was too cool for school.
We await the visit of Midge and Jay over Labor Day, which will cap a lovely summer.
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Hey guys good to hear from you! It has been a great summer here -- lovely weather -- enough rain to naturally water the gardens and lots of warm (not hot) weather. If you want to add pictures you can use google's picasa program. It allows you to upload pictures to a albums on a web site that you can share with friends. The address is http://picasa.google.com/
My web albums are at: http://picasaweb.google.com/mstock333
Enjoy!
Marsha
OH -- Natalie is my new grand niece -- Vicki's (California niece)second baby.
Hey Dr. Marsha. I have to figure out if this goes directly to you, or is included in the blog. And go to picasa to upload pictures. You of course looked great in your picture. We definitely should get together.
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