Autumn In Albany...Pshaw!!!

This is how it goes... you wake up in the morning and peek out to see a slit of sun. Ah-h-h, a nice day! But by the time you get downstairs, the sun is gone and the grayness has taken over. See ya at the end of April, Sun! We have the 5th least amount of available sunlight of large cities in the US ... ahead of us: Seattle, Portland, Buffalo, Syracuse.
Had a surprise visit from Kath and Charlie who came up to watch their granddaughter, Phoebe, play a high school tennis match. The heavens opened and the match was rained out when Phoebe was winning by a lot but we had a fun dinner and breakfast.
Kath and Charlie have returned to Florida for the winter. They'll take a short detour to India and Nepal to visit daughter Marya and family for the holidays.

I'm sure you'll enjoy, as I have this wonderful picture of Kath and Charlie with their son and four daughters, inlaws and many gorgeous grandchildren... taken on Cuddyhunk where they celebrated theur 50th wedding anniversaty!



COLUMBUS DAY 2010...

...and an appropriate time for my own voyage of discovery. I think the preceding extended rave/rant of 6/6/2009-7/?/2009, when finally sent yesterday did not reach its intended victims: the illustrious, and ever-patient with me, CLASS OF 1959 at GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY, LAKEWOOD, JERSEY.

I know the web album did arrive because I've heard from Ann O'Neil. But if I'm ever to master the "blogging world", I'd better get some of the books off the shelf... and read. For today, however, it's NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER, or "chowdah", as Kath would say ... perhaps quite properly. Why did I buy clams when I yearned for the stuff when I could have gone to FRIENDLY'S?

Oh, well, the New England cookbooks are out...so they'll be dusted.... and away we go... why does every cookbook author have "....'s Famous Chowder"?





That's it. I'm avoiding getting the sand out...

Mairsie