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๐ชจ The Painted Rock Chronicles: Museums, Munchies, and More!

Friday January 24th, 2025 I am currently in the middle of my friendly visit to Michigan and one of our plans is to make some Bob Ross paintings. Acrylic paints have been acquired. In this picture, though, we are attempting a side quest. Our goal is to find rocks, paint them and then hide them Continue reading
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๐คFrom Rakugo to Rigoletto: Wintertime Fun

Friday January 3rd, 2025 I continue to enjoy sending postcards made of “stuff” to my pal Tony in Michigan. Today’s postcard is a banana sweet’s box and the conversation on the back of the card is about my upcoming trip to visit Tony. Saturday January 4th, 2025 Today we went to the romantic musical comedy Continue reading
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๐ธ Oceanic Money Has Been Sent To Michigan

Friday December 20th, 2024 I still have a stack of letters to write. These come in a booklet and they are a nice choice when a postcard doesn’t have enough room for the message I want to send. I could probably insert flat items such as book marks in one of these. The downsize is Continue reading
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๐ The Book of Good Times & Tom’s Juice

Friday November 29th, 2024 The Book of Good Time is a book by Hank Green which recently completed a round of Kickstarted funding. I have never backed a Kickstarter project until this and I am happy to say that last night, the book arrived! As yesterday (Thanksgiving, the day we went to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Continue reading
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๐ฆMacy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Thanksgiving – Thursday November 28, 2024 Today will be cold. It will be wet. And we have nice tickets to a seated area of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day starts off very early as we’ll we need to be in line by a certain time and because the busses and trains are a Continue reading
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๐ Paterson Great Falls NHP

Sunday November 17th, 2024 The plan today is to head over to New Jersey to get a national park passport stamp at Paterson Great Falls and to also to take a walking tour that is hosted by a park ranger. Getting the stamp for my passport book is the goal, but it feels more meaningful Continue reading
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โธ๏ธ Broadway Roulette Tickets – What Show Will We See?

Tuesday November 5th, 2024 A postcard to the Czech Republic. Or Czechia. I know the name changed, but I keep seeing folks who live there refer to it as “Czech Republic” and I’m certainly not going to correct them. The profile for this postcrossing has the suggested topic “What is the most useless item?” I Continue reading
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#BookOfGoodTimes – I Drew A Turtle In The Dark – Sort Of

November 29th, 2024. Astoria, NY. 34ยฐ F (1ยฐ C) My copy of The Book of Good Times has arrived in the mail. This is a Kickstarter project by Hank Green and I am excited to say it is the first Kickstarter project that I have ever backed. This book ticks several checkboxes for me: creativity, Continue reading
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๐ฆ Fort Tompkins – The Difficult To Schedule Tour

Tuesday November 5th, 2024 Last night a took a picture of these candy covered stroopwafels and shared it with a friend in The Netherlands. He was not impressed. Today I sent a postcard to Czechia. Or The Czech Republic. I know the name of the country changed, but I still see most folks refer to Continue reading
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โ Coffee Robot, Hamilton & The Play That Goes Wrong

Saturday November 2nd, 2024 It is my partner’s birthday weekend and we had planned on going out on Sunday to a couple of planned events and have a list of other nearby places of interest to fill the time, but we also realized during the week that this is the day of the New York Continue reading
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๐ Return to Governors Island, Sexy Mike Myers, NBA

Saturday & Sunday October 19th & 20th, 2024 Cheesecake and coffee in the park! Kinokuniya! Do you know those pens that have three or four colors in them, where you press down the color you want and it will click out of the end, and if you press another color a little, the previous color Continue reading
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๐ฝ The Statue of Liberty & Wham (the food, not the band)

Saturday October 12, 2024 I found a Seventh-Day Adventist store in Queens! “What is a Seventh-Day Adventist store and why does this matter?” you ask? Well, my friend. Seventh-Day Adventists have the best food. Specifically a salty little item called Wham (which has been renamed “meatless ham” or something). Unfortunately this store that carries my Continue reading
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