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Beautiful day today, high in the low 70s.

Then rain tomorrow.

Then a gorgeous Memorial Day weekend which means TRAFFIC!

keith wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 1:34 am I don't understand.

Doesn't the USA have little coffee shops that roast their own beans on every street corner like we do in Australia?

(JK, that's a bit hyperbolic. Australia doesn't have roasting cafe's on EVERY corner)

Here on the North Fork we have those little coffee shops.

:bighug: When I relocated from Long Island to New Jersey many years ago I thought that Long Island girl Mrs. V might divorce me. ;) That move was voluntary. A few years later I was relocated involuntarily to Texas right after doing significant renovations to our NJ house. Then back to New Jersey. Th...

Trump says he will ‘never advocate’ for contraception restrictions after earlier saying he’s ‘looking at’ them https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/21/trump-contraception-abortion-00159118 Donald Trump insisted in a social media post Tuesday that he has “never, and will never advocate imposing res...

Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to charges in Arizona fake electors case Former New York mayor one of 12 defendants charged with illegally trying to keep Trump in power after 2020 election defeat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/rudy-giuliani-pleads-not-guilty-fake-electors-c...

City of Wichita Falls, Texas Government · Wichita Falls, for the first time since September 12, 2022 the combined level for Lakes Arrowhead and Kickapoo have exceeded 70%. This past week the combined level rose 6.3% for a total of 74%. Water customers remain in the Stage 1 Drought Watch restrictions...

We are summer+ people.

It is the last quiet week before the Memorial Day weekend when the North Fork will be inundated with weekenders, day trippers and summer people until Labor Day.

Quiet Sunday afternoon on the Circle. Mrs.V's cousins have headed home. Our neighbor's to the right daughters have left after mowing his lawn. Mrs. V and her remaining cousins are at a performance of the 1731 Meeting House Chorus. Our cats are napping upstairs. LIRR trains are on reduced weekend sch...

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 4:30 am Maybe he meant MTT? Michael Thomas Tilson?

Yes.

Feeling old now. :( When I started college in Boston in 1969 Erich Leinsdorf had just left as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The BSO brought in William Steinberg, then conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, part-time to replace him while they looked for a new permanent conductor. Steinbe...

Hot weather poses new risk as thousands remain without power after deadly Houston storm https://apnews.com/article/houston-texas-storms-power-outages-86643a6d7decd28e971774e03b52e51d 77 Houston ISD campuses still without power, still hoping to reopen Monday https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/...

:roll: Trump demands drug test for Biden ahead of first debate https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4672061-donald-trump-demands-drug-test-for-joe-biden-ahead-debate/ Former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate. “I’m gonna demand a drug test too,...

Took Mrs.V out for her birthday today for lunch at a nice French restaurant on the Sound about 30 minutes west of us. Food was good but pricey. Driving back to the Circle there was a lot of westbound traffic. Since today is Friday I imagine that those were Northforkers getting away before the weeken...

Reports of damage in the Houston area sound like that of a hurricane but without any storm surge.

Some places may be without power for weeks.

The sun is out!

Mrs.V's cousins to the left of us got started mowing and trimming first thing this morning. This apparently inspired the folk just north of us to start their yard work. It rained the last 2 days so today folk will be catching up on their lawn work including our lawn service which usually comes on Th...

That particular turtle is an eastern box turtle that Mrs. V's cousin's (who has a cottage on the Circle) husband has been tracking for years. The marks on the shells are as distinctive as fingerprints.

At least 20 other Houston area school districts are closed today.

Our former Texas city for 30+ years was Baytown just a bit east of Houston.

Facebook reports from Baytown this morning say that most of the city has no power. Schools are closed in both Baytown and all of Houston.

One of the NoFo's nicer restaurants has just opened a grab and go shop near here which features frozen pot pies handmade in the restaurant. Also soups and such.

Mrs.V has picked up a chicken pie and some seafood bisque for dinner.

Mrs. V's cousins who own the cottage to our left have arrived to open up for the season. They are the brothers of Mrs. V's cousin who lives down by the bay. Meanwhile in the DC area, that cousin's doctors are finding more medical issues. That is so often the case once you enter a hospital in my expe...

Turtle visitor to our cottage today.