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Hey, this is great (Thanks Paul)... Just go here, fill in your name and have a look at your number one Personal Fan!! posted @ 10:30 PM EST [link] [Karma: -19 (+/-)]Karma Hey, who is giving the posts negative Karma ? Just so you know I click the + and it cancels out your negative vote so it gets back to zero... Don't be a wussy, psot and say who you are ! ;-) posted @ 10:58 PM EST [link] [Karma: -13 (+/-)]Garage Page Updated I know it's been awhile. But finally, the Garage-Cottage Tranformation page has been updated. Yup, we are at phase 3.75 now ! Getting there, I hope to have the kitchen cabinets installed in the next few days and that should make it look like a bona fide living space... OK, stay tuned... posted @ 11:30 AM EST [link] [Karma: -3 (+/-)]Lotta Snow... So was that the blizzard of '03 ?? It started Sunday night around 10:00 pm and it ended last night right about midnight. I went down to the village Sunday night, got some 2-Boots pizza, always like the city when it's snowing! We got around two feet here, I think down south and near the water they got quite a bit more. The snow plow guy finally made it here at four in the morning (woke my ass up) and he managed to get 2/3's of it plowed. So if I can dig out a pathway from the driveway to the door... Well, you get the idea. Here are a few pics, these are from yesterday morning, keep in mind we got another foot after these pictures. Here's one driving, and here's a few cars on the side of the road down in Greenburgh, here is another snowed in car. I'll take pics today of the yard and post them later. OK, I have to get dressed and start shoveling... Later- OK, cleaned the walk with Paul. Here are a few more pics- My Jeep, notice the snow is as high as the hood! Here's the backyard, the view from top of the driveway and the view of the walk. This is how much is piled on top of our oil tank, and walking around the drifts are up to my knee! I mean, for me, I like snow, so this has been a nice last couple days. Makes me SMILE ... posted @ 10:15 AM EST [link] [Karma: -2 (+/-)]Valentines Day Feast ! Hi - I know, I haven't posted in ages. Work has been hectic, stuff to do around the house, etc. But I did want to say I hope everyone had a HAPPY Valentines Day !! G and I went out to Queens, she wanted to treat me to a feast and eat some real Kalbi, which is beef short ribs you grill yourself right at the table. Then wrap it up in a leaf of lettuce with some shredded scallions and maybe a dab of miso based bbq-sauce. All I can say is, WOW, it is dee-lish! You can take a piece sizzling right from the grill and just pop it in your mouth, all juicy and nice.... The picture you just saw was from a chain called Kang Suh, they have a place in Westchester, but we went to Dae Dong, it's on Northern Blvd. by 220th st. in Queens. Here's the table after we got done, actually there were even more plates of food while we were still eating! Here's a shot that has the cool fountain that was next to our table. And you can see the kalbi cooking on the grill here, and yes, I anonymized her face ... So it was a nice evening, and then we stopped by Han Yang Mart to get some little yogurt drinks and choco-pies !! Hope you all had a nice holiday as well and I'll be posting again soon- posted @ 02:47 PM EST [link] [Karma: 7 (+/-)]All Primed Up ! Finally ! I finished priming the cottage today. Was up until four in the morning last night caulking and doing the first coat. Then today I went up and finished the second coat. Looks great. Funny how a place all of a sudden looks like a real living area once it is all one color, rather then raw sheet rock with seams all over the place... Anyway, I'm beat, going to sleep. I'll post pictures of it on the "Garage Transformation" page tomorrow. posted @ 11:55 PM EST [link] [Karma: 16 (+/-)]Mott St and some good Pho Pho- Gotta love it. What else has that wonderful seasoning, those soft noodles, nice hunks of beef floating in broth, and you get huge bowl of it for 4 bucks... Yup, went to China Town with Sam and Maggie today, and I just had to go to that vietnamese place on Mulberry street that is always packed. Now you'd think in China Town, we'd have to eat chinese, maybe have some good peking duck, but I don't get to eat vietnamese as much as I'd like, so pho it was... I think the kids liked it, but Maggie looks kinda freaked in this picture, huh ? But Sam chowed down with me, we cooked up some thin sliced beef right at the table and rolled it up in lettuce, mmmm, good stuff. Then we stopped at the Dragon Land Bakery, I always go there when I'm in the neighborhood, I love that place and it is so cheap ! All the good cakes and cookies are like fifty or sixty cents, and they have bubble tea, which is soooo yummy, I had mango, Sam had honeydew flavored. The place is always packed, people constantly coming in and out, and they have terrariums built into the tables, with live turtles and stuff. Nice fish tank, with a couple of impressive Arrowanas swimming around. And the cookie ladies are very professional and efficient. Swing by, you won't be disappointed... It's at 125 Walker St, right by the corner of Canal and Mulberry. So the parade was short and the sidewalks were so packed you had to squeeze your way through every inch. We stopped in some neat stores, one place had big jars of shark fin and birds nest. You can't see the price in this pic, but the red birds nest is 2,800 dollars a pound! We saw some cool stuff. So the food was great, and I picked up a nice tea pot and a new tea cup, both dirt cheap. All in all a nice day. On the way home, Sam and I stopped at Stew Leonards and stocked up on the juices he likes, so we took care of an errand too. Came home, talked to G for an hour on the phone, and then wrote this. K, tomorrow's my day off so I wanna enojoy it. Later... posted @ 01:27 AM EST [link] [Karma: 3 (+/-)]Happy New Year !! Happy Lunar New Year !! So, we are welcoming in the year 4701... I think it's going to be a good year. To start it off with a full belly, G and I went out to Flushing to eat, and eat, and eat. The traffic was all backed up on Northern Blvd., I guess because the parade was just over. Here's a straggling Lion we passed. The weather was damp and drizzling on and off, not a great day for a stroll. Then we hit a few markets. We knew the market was named something that started with an "H"... So when we came a cross a big one named Han Ah Reum, we went in to check it out. Wow, it had tons of neat stuff. But, the best is the snack bar before you enter the main market area. We had some beef filled pancakes, and an out of this world corn dog. I mean, country fair corn dogs have nothing on thse bad boys! You can sit in a little room at a counter and munch away, and they had a big urn of barley tea (yum) brewed, just help yourself. Speaking of tea, ask me sometime about "blossoming beauteas" they are really good, and so pretty, with whole flower blossoms in your cup... So we're shopping away, got a few things and more that aren't in this pic. And Grace eyes these choco-pies she used to eat as a kid, gets all excited, her g-mom used to have to hide them in the attic so she could dole them out. So I got a box for home, and ya' know, they are good, I can see being little and just eating one after another until you have a tummy-ache. Then, on the way out, the fried squid were done. Mmmmm, so we grab a plate full and pop another squat in the munchin' room. So we load up the Jeep, have a smoke, and head on up the road. Stopped at another big market, but it was Chinese rather then Korean, but I did get a few pieces of bamboo for my ever growing plant collection here, and a couple pieces of cake for a later on snack. We did stroll for a bit, but it was too cold. Grace noticed a cool sign, the "Do Me" (hehe) pain clinic, guess for those S&M types (of course that would never be us), but it was amusing. Then we are driving along and she spots it- The market, Han Yan, it's the right one, and of course, it starts with an "H". This one was big also, but they had a couple women inside making fresh kimchi, and they had a nice selection of kimchi's many of them made right there. Picked up a couple jars, can't resist good kimchi. But lemme tell ya', the snack bar in this place, was great! The squid were way more yummy, and I had a good bowl of noodle soup also. G had another corn dog, but it wasn't as good as the first place. And here they bring your eats to you while you sit. We had seen a small band of folks singing and making music, going from shop to shop, when we were across the street. Well they must know where the good fried squid is at, as they were eating here as well. I have to say though, my belly is not used to mass quantities of fried food and grease, and I was over-stuffed and going to turn green soon if I had one more bite. We waddled back to the Jeep and headed home. But not before scoping out the restaraunt we're gonna pig out at next time we're in the neighborhood! Got home and ate some cookies (like I wasn't full enough). Sam and I went to the movies, saw Final Destination 2. Good for some laughs, the splatter-gore scenes were so gory it was comical, half the theater was laughing. Every now and then I surprise me and watch a movie kinda out of character for my taste, but enjoy nonetheless...When I wake up later, I'm taking Maggie and Sam down to Chinatown in Manhattan to see the parade there tomorrow. So maybe I'll post more pics if I take any. OK, it's late, tired. Have a good one... posted @ 11:55 PM EST [link] [Karma: -9 (+/-)] |
