Now N Then

Mom and Pop out for a stroll.

If this is not a gaggle now then it will be some day

Front

Backyard color

The birds like us. Gold Finch

Birds attack each others nests and eggs. There had been three eggs in this one and only a broken empty one is left. This is right outside our back door.

This is the pride of Perinton. Years ago the Town Board’s proposal for a Recreation Center was defeated. So they quietly saved money and when they had enough they just went ahead and built it. Then they added the pools. The Center has a Gym with walking track above; a weight room; an arobic exercise area and numerous activity rooms. Just a real nice thing for the community.

Before I get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the trip back to Rochester I will catch up on things around the homestead.

Garbage is a necessity of life. Fortunately, seniors can use the dump for a $1 a bag (anything you can lift). Below is a picture of a bag in our truck and then the dump is the big hill in the second picture. I love a good deal.

We bought this wonderful crumb cake on Saturday to have for breakfast on Sunday.

When we opened it on Sunday morning a piece was missing. Detectives all we tried to figure out who did it. Patty said her sons (my nephews) would not have been neat enough to get the string back on the box. I defended the boys vigorously. In the end everyone agreed it must have been me so I confessed.

Where my wife went growing up. Looks the same now as then. Still in Babylon, LI

The reason that we went to LI was to attend a fundraiser for the Sisters of Charity(the nuns who taught me in Grade School (St Barnabas) and Betty and I in High School(Seton Hall). My sister in law, the nun, was one of the two honorees. Below are two other Seaton Hall Grads Jack and Sue.

And Sister Winnie who introduced Sister Mary Lou one of the honorees.

In a Bakery on Deer Park Ave (the main street)

By the Babylon Railroad Station

I dated a girl who lived in this house. She wasn’t grandma Betty then but she is now. House looks the same.

Not far from this house is the house below on Mulbury Street. Bob Keeshan, the original Captain Kangaroo lived here. Bob was a graduate of Fordham, a marine(no he did not fight on Iwo Jima with Lee Marvin) and the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show.The Captain Kangaroo show ran from 1955 to 1984.