9/11/01

9/11/01

Let's always remember everyone who was killed or hurt or effected in some way by these terrorists attacks.

Spiderman

Spiderman

Our daughter Jennifer painted this spiderweb in Jack Aidan's bedroom. She then bought a commercial Spiderman poster and cut it out and attached it to the painted web to create this life size and dramatic mural for our grandson's bedroom. Little Jack loves it needless to say.

Meanwhile up in New York City the Broadway producers are still trying to work out the glitches on the Spiderman play that is way way over budget. I think I read that the producers have spent over 200 million on this play and it still is technically a flop because of many mishaps and several actors falling and getting hurt. I hope the producers can work out the problems so that someday we can take Jack Aidan to New York City to see this production of Spiderman. Meanwhile we will just have to enjoy the huge Spiderman in Jack Aidan's bedroom.

Come back here tomorrow to see our Jack Aidan in his Spiderman costume.

Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

Cooperstown, New York which is all decked out with American flags and big balls of red begonias looks like Main Street in DisneyWorld Florida. there are tourists walking the street and tour buses parked on sidestreets nearby. We saw lots of parents with children in tow heading to the museum and lots of little league baseball teams traveling as a group with their parents to visit Cooperstown's famous Baseball Hall of Fame.

This beautiful three story turn of the century home was on the market. Would you like to buy it?

Here was another grand home in the town.

Jack and I arrived hungry in Cooperstown so we started a visit to the city with a stop at a local restaurant that served Old Slugger beer and ....

.......hotdogs and chips. What else can you order when you are in a famous American baseball setting.

July 25, 2010 the above three baseball players (Dawson, Harvey and Herzog) were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame along with about seven other folks connected with baseball.

Here's the front entrance of the Baseball Hall of Fame where we purchased out tickets. We got a double discount for being seniors and AAA members.

I love Yogi Berra. He is my favorite baseball player of all time.There is lots of information to read about each baseball team and each player because baseball is a game of statistics. If you were a true baseball nut you could easily spend hours here. Jack and I who are not baseball nuts covered the museum in about an hour and that included dodging lots of kids and teenage boys.

Of course there were several statues of the Babe!

Harry Thobe I guess was an ardent fan from Oxford, Ohio. I just had to take a picture of this write up because I know a lot of Thobes in Ohio since my sister's husband is Jerry Thobe. Also, Oxford, Ohio is home to my college, Miami University of Ohio.

Statues of courageous men: Lou Gehring, Babe Ruth and Roberto Clemente

I shot this picture of a jewelry case that shows the various club rings the world series of baseball winners get to wear indicating that they were a member of a winning baseball world series.

Had to take this photo for my son-in-law from Cape Cod.

Had to take this photo because Jack's father and family lived in St. Louis.

Had to take this photo for my relatives in Ohio. In this photo Pope John Paul is receiving a baseball shirt from Marge Shotte who at that time was the notorious owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

Pete Rose, because of gambling on baseball will most likely never be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame but that does not mean that his name and jersey and bat and photo are not there.
See below.

They have these various plaques for statistics for all time and active players. Here is where Pete Rose heads the all time hits list. What is interesting is that during baseball season someone must go around daily to update these records as more hits are made by the current players. And of course they must have computers storing all this data.

Below is the one thing Pete Rose doesn't have but still yearns to have at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

A bronze plaque like this one for Cal Ripken Jr. that indicates that he has been inducted into

The Baseball Hall of Fame.

To learn more about the Baseball Hall of Fame go here: http://baseballhall.org/

Observation Deck of Twin Towers

In January of 1998 Jack and I went to New York City to see our daughter perform with her dance troupe at Carnegie Hall. While Jeanine was busy rehearsing for the Carnegie show Jack and I decided to go to the Trade Center in lower Manhattan to visit the Observation Deck of the Twin Towers. This week I found two old postcards that I bought on the Observation Deck. In the photo above you can see one of the towers and the financial district. I suggest that you might want to click on the picture to get a more detailed view. All the green in the foreground is Battery Park where you can catch a free ferry to Staten Island that gives you a wonderful view of the Statue of Liberty. You can actually see at the bottom of the photo the Staten Island Ferry terminal and ferries leaving the terminal. I think it is amazing that this is a free ride every day of the year. At the top of the photo you can see how the Hudson River flows along the shores of New Jersey and Manhattan and goes around Battery Park to connect with the East River since Manhattan is an island.

What I remember about going to the Observation Deck is that it took forever to get up to the top----over 100 some floors to the top and to get there you had to switch elevators at some point. When you got to the Observation Deck you walked into this enormous room with windows on three sides. As you walked towards the windows for the view you noticed that the room was built with these low seats that put your nose right up to the glass window. So you basically came in the room, walked towards a window, went down two or three steps and sat down with your face up close to the window. I don't know why they did it like this except maybe a lot of folks like me almost feel faint when they see such a view from such a high place. They feel like they have to sit down before they fall down.

Well, to make a long story short it took me about five minutes to get up enough nerve to do this. Finally I was seated and looking thru the glass but purposely not touching the glass just in case the framing around the window was damaged from years of wear and tear. I pictured in my mind leaning on the window and the window glass falling forward with me going down, down too. Look at the postcard below to get a sense of the view I was encountering.

This is the static postcard view from the Observation Deck. In reality the view you encountered on the Observation Deck was far from static. The first thing I noticed were the tourist and emergency helicopters flying below me and some boats cruising along the East River. When I leaned over and looked straight down I could see cars moving in the streets looking like tiny ants and the people walking along the sidewalks looking like even tinier ants. The actual leaning over to look down gave me strangest weak kneeed sensation that I think I have ever felt. In this postcard photo you can see two bridges. The one to the right is the famous Brooklyn Bridge that many commuters walked over after 9/11 occurred to reach their homes in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The bridge to the left is the Manhattan Bridge that takes folks to middle Manhattan. Jack who is a very good driver once drove our family from Virginia to Manhattan and our hotel but we entered the island of Manhattan thru a tunnel under the Hudson River from New Jersey. After that driving experience Jack vowed that he would never again drive to the island of Manhattan. Way too nerve racking!

Post Note: I posted this for the anniversary of 9/11 and for my sister Mary and her husband Jerry who are soon heading from Ohio to Manhattan for a five day sightseeing trip. It will be their first time to New York City and I can't wait to hear how they like it. It won't be anything like Columbus, Ohio that's for sure.

Wall St. and The Tale of Chicken Licken

September 30, 2008

Wall Street Cry

The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling

Click here to read an interpretation of the Tale of Chicken Licken.

http://rickwalton.com/funstuff/skyfall.htm

Today is Secretary Paulsen and/or Bush playing the part of Chicken Licken on Wall Street? Observations, comments, debates and cuss words allowed today. Leave a thought.

Misconceptions

It is always easy to have misconceptions about regions of our United States. For instance, I admit I have had a misconception about New England and New York State. I have always thought that no one in the far east corner of the U.S. listened to country and western music. Well, Baby Jack's first cousin, the other Jack, sure put me straight this weekend. Jack Mulcahy is only two and a half years old but he certainly is into country and western music. Samantha, his mother, said his first word after Momma and Dada was Brad. Short for Brad Paisley, the country singer. And when he is listening to his favorite country station up on Cape Cod he can tell you who is singing some of the songs. He recognizes and likes the country sounds of Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney and Martina McBride. What a hoot that is! And this little guy is a real worker bee. Last fall when Jenn and Terry were in Cape Cod for Thanksgiving with the relatives they discovered that this Jack just loved to rake leaves. Well, on Sunday afternoon after church services he begged Jenn to let him sweep the floors in the house. So here he is sweeping with the broom and dustpan. Sweep on you cute little Cape Cod Country Boy.