Category Archives: Lame Post Friday

A Walk of Some Lame

Posted on August 28, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

I thought I would do a kind of a combination Lame Post Friday and Pedestrian Post this morning. When I discovered I had left my Garmin plugged in overnight, I took that as my sign I should walk right away. It was prior to 8 a.m., an excellent time for a stroll.

Regular readers know I have not been walking as much as previously and I have not been running at all. I recently started to get back into a routine of walking every morning, only to come down with a nasty cold or sinus thing that sidelined me, followed by a stomach thing more recently. Yes, I am whining a lot, stop playing that miniature violin (you know who you are)!

The wreckage of my running dreams?

I felt delightful this morning, and moreso as I began to walk. I decided to walk downtown and try to check the progress of the demolition of a building on Main Street. The above picture was taken a week or more ago, when the building had just come down. They are hard at work clearing away all the debris. There is another condemned structure, but apparently the village lacks the funds for more demolition.

Another view.

I did not bring my phone with me so did not take a picture of what is currently there. Perhaps later when I go to have a drink at Pete’s Tavern or the End Zone. Uh, I mean when I go down to shop at Collis Hardware or Mohawk Valley Community Market (see how I slide in plugs for local businesses?).

I walked for a mile and a quarter and it felt great. Now I have blogged for over 250 words, and that doesn’t feel too bad either. Time to get on with my Friday!

Lame Handed Compliment

Posted on August 22, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Oh dear. It is late on Friday and I want to make a Lame Post Friday Blog Post. What can I get away away with?

My family helps me once again!

I scrolled down my Media Library looking for an illustration and found this one of my sister, cousins, and nephew. Um, cousin, sister, cousin, nephew, if you want to know. The first might be cousin once removed, if we want to be that way.

Where were we?

He is such a nice young man!

I throw in Ryan Quinn at Fratello’s Pizzeria, because I was thinking of going to go see another local band at Stone Soup in Herkimer, NY, The Jake Lozo Band. I had previously seen them at the Ilion Elks Lodge after the Doodah Parade.

Here they are!

Alas, tonight I started my partying too early and had to come home before the band began to play. I hope I will be able to see them play another time.

In the meantime, here is my Lame Post Friday Post. I have not quite reached 200 words. Oh dear. Will that be all right? As always. I hope to see you again on Saturday.

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Better to Have Lamed…

Posted on August 8, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello and welcome to another Lame Post Friday blog post. It is, I am afraid, the best I can do today. I am feeling down, but you’ll have that. It is really no reason for concern. I have not been out and about today, except to do some little bit of yard work (nothing work taking pictures and writing a blog post about, unfortunately). But it is Lame Post Friday, the day when I indulge in random observations and half-baked philosophy. What can I come up with today?

Oh! It’s a bird house!

When I looked at this picture all small in my Media Library, I had no idea what it was. Silly me! The picture was taken in 2020, when we were all hunkered down trying to avoid COVID. I was putting up decorations here and there, trying to cheer the place up. Perhaps I should make some efforts in that direction again. First I have to clean. Damn.

Sure looks different now!

Fast forward about a year from when the last picture was taken to August 2021, and look at all the Brown-Eyed Susans I had. It was amazing! This is actually the area of the deck I was working on this morning, once again battling the wild grapevines (if only I could make wild wine, we could come to some sort of an agreement). It does not look like this. Not a single Brown-Eyed Susan do I have, alas.

I do not know if any of those count as random observations or half-baked philosophy, and I am thinking probably not. However, I observe (not so randomly, unfortunately) that I am over 250 words. I think that counts as good for a Friday blog post, Lame or otherwise (I guess all my posts are somewhat lame). I philosophize that a lame post is better than no post at all. Have I used that as a title already? I fear so.

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A New Start? Or Another Lame Step?

Posted on August 1, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Sometimes doing something, anything different can help you get out of a rut. For example, making my Lame Post Friday blog post ON Friday, which I have not done in a number of weeks (yes, I know, one is a number) (some say it is the loneliest number, but that is rather a cliche, is it not?). Where was I? Ah yes, all week I have been making a post in the morning, as early as I could manage, for the previous day. It is now Friday afternoon (by my clock if not by my WordPress timestamp), and I thought I would make my Lame Post Friday post.

Go ahead and fail me, feet; it’s Lame Post Friday.

This is a shot from 2019, and it is not very accurate to right now. My toenails need repainting badly, but I don’t think I could stand a full pedicure. Also, that pair of sandals broke ages ago. I am hard on sandals, I suppose. I may try to paint my own toenails and forgo the pumice stone. Then I’ll take another feet picture. Oh, and if the caption doesn’t make sense to you, it is a reference to an old saying, “Feet, don’t fail me now!”

My mood if not my weather.

Looking for another picture to illustrate my post, I found these dark clouds. It is, in fact, a nice sunny day right now. My current outlook is gloomy, but I will try to perk myself up. I know what! I will walk to the Herkimer County Historical Society and purchase post cards. Then I will have something fun to send family and friends. In sending them some cheer, I will manufacture a little cheer for myself.

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Stop Typing, Me, and Start Writing!

Posted on July 25, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello and welcome to another Late and Lame Post. I neglected to make my Lame Post Friday blog post on Friday, and here I am prior to 7 a.m. (I slept in) on Saturday, listening to my coffee lazily brewing, and thinking it would be good for me, if for nobody else, to try to type in something (as Truman Capote famously said, “That’s not writing, that’s typing.”

My current state of mind.

I throw in a picture to pep things up, as I like to do at these times. I did not want to take the time to search my Media Library for either a coffee cup nor my one picture of typewriters (note to self: get more pictures of typewriters), but this one caught my eye. It is me as the alleged murder victim at the end of A Revolutionary Murder. I was supposedly blown up by a cannon (“canonized” as one cast member put it), and we all thought it would be funny if I came out at the end looking like this.

Ah yes, books.

Scrolling down my Media Library I came across this picture of the Little Free Library on the walking trail at the Town of Herkimer Park. I put a couple of books in the Little Free Library at Valley Wine and Liquor yesterday when I stopped by for a wine tasting (good wines, yum!). This is to remind me that I have not yet written that novel, although I have made a few false starts.

I guess it’s time to get myself going. At least I have made a blog post, lame as it is. Will I write anything today? Will I even type another blog post? A little uncertainty adds interest to my weekend.

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The Boilermaker Blues

Posted on July 10, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello and welcome to another Lame Post Friday post! I am waiting for my new smarter-than-me phone to charge a little more before I head out to the Health and Wellness Expo for the Utica Boilermaker 2026. Normally this blog would be All Boilermaker All The Time at this point, as I dealt with last minute training and carbing up, Boilermaker Butterflies, decisions about what to wear, where to park, and anything else I could come up with to dither about. Regular readers know, that will not happen this year.

My feet failed me now.

Those are my sneakers in 2020, a virtual Boilermaker year. Running was a great solace to me during COVID shut-down. I have long relied on walking and running to supplement my anti-depressant drugs, counseling, etc. These days I keep giving myself a good talking-to when I start to feel sorry for myself over the way my body has betrayed me this year, because for heavens’ sake, it could be much worse.

I waited till way too late in the game to transfer my bib or get a medical deferral. Partly because I was spending time immobile and incommunicado, partly because I kept hoping there would be some miracle. That was silly of me, but then, you know me. Silly. I emailed the race director on Wednesday and told him my tentative plan to pick up my bib and glass, then go to the race after-party on my crutches and drink beer with the finishers. He emailed back that he thought it was a great idea. How sweet was that, that he took time to email me back!

Not the best picture.

The Boilermaker gives you a glass instead of a t-shirt. This is from the first time I ran the Boilermaker in 2010. I have not run it every year, but I have run it several times (please don’t ask me to do the math!). Sorry the picture is so dark. I first had to wander around my messy house looking for a place to take the picture at all; I couldn’t be bothered to worry about the lighting as well.

I see I am over 350 words with neither a random observation nor a bit of half-baked philosophy to show for it. What is Lame Post Friday coming to? On the brighter side, it is just about time to take off for the Expo. Another glass to drink my chocolate milk recovery beverage out of, if I am ever able to run again!

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High Temperatures, Lame Blog Posts

Posted on July 4, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Oh crap, I forgot to make my blog post earlier! AND I already used my “I’m MELTING!” picture earlier this week. Who knew I would be melting even worse today? I guess anybody who was watching the weather reports, which in fact, I have been. Anyways, it is Lame Post Friday, so I am just going to rattle on for 200 or so words, perhaps indulging in a few random observations or some half-baked philosophy. It is Friday; I checked.

There are wine tastings on Fridays.

This is a picture from last week at Valley Wine and Liquor in Herkimer, NY. Full disclosure: It may have been Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. They have tastings all three of those days. I believe they do not have a tasting tomorrow, on the Fourth. I did not attend yesterday’s tasting. I am thinking of going to today’s tasting, which has already started. It runs till six. I have time. I just have to put my pants back on (do NOT say TMI) (you know who you are).

I do not have mine in a row, by the way

I throw in a duck, because who doesn’t love a duck (if it is you, I believe you have come to the wrong blog, because I love ducks and often include them)? That is a duck I won in a claw machine in Boulevard Diner in Whitesboro and subsequently presented to my friend Michele on her birthday. I won a spangly blue duck in a claw machine at Friendly’s in New Hartford yesterday. It is presently residing on my coffee table, which really needs cleaning.

It is, in fact, too hot for me to worry about cleaning my house right now. Perhaps I can get something done after the heat of the day today or before the heat of the day tomorrow. Will it be worth a blog post? A little uncertainty adds interest to my weekend.

Too Lame to Perambulate

Posted on June 20, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello and welcome to another Lame Post Friday blog post. I am still posting from my living room couch, gimping around my house on crutches for my basic needs. Of course I count my blessings, because I AM able to gimp around on crutches, at least for short periods of time. And there is still food in my house. I can’t say I have it goin’ on, but at least I will survive till such time as I do.

Enough of my foolish situation. On with the blog post.

Where is Juan Valdez?

I share a picture in hopes of pepping up the post. This is a neighbor’s lawn decorations which I saw on one of my Pedestrian Post with Pictures. When I was still a pedestrian and not a gimp (you see I can’t help but hark back to my petty problems). When I am once again able to perambulate, how happy I will be. “Perambulate” is a word my late husband Steve and I used to use when we had a dog, because dogs quickly learn the word “walk.” They also learn the phrase, “go for a,” so I would say, “Shall we indulge in a perambulation?”

“Did she say perambulation?”

Here is our second dear little doggy, Spunky. I miss having a dog, although with my current state of immobility, I suppose it is a good thing I do not have one.

Only I’m not wearing leggings or fuzzy socks.

I end with a picture which is close to my current view, although I am trying not to cross my legs much, to facilitate blood flow and such-like. This is actually from last December, when I was showing off my new slippers, which my parents gifted me. I hope to leave my couch and my house soon. Will I be Mohawk Valley Adventure-bound? A little uncertainty adds interest to my weekend.

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Would Coffee Help?

Posted on June 13, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Well, I am having a difficult time making my Lame Post Friday post. I do not want to go on about my health woes, but I have some pain that comes and goes (mostly comes), and it keeps coming especially strong every time I sit down at my Chromebook to write. Could it be psychosomatic? I fear my post will be dull and boring so I am subconsciously trying to keep myself from making it? It could be, but then, what am I subconsciously trying to prevent myself from doing the rest of the time? Also, I am almost always afraid my posts will be dull and boring, yet I make them anyways. Once again I say, what the hell, me?

At least she dies happy.

I add a silly picture to pep things up. I personally have not had coffee or tea since Friday. No wine, either (SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!!!). When I do finally have a cuppa, I expect to enjoy it.

Pretty!

I add the Luna Moth because it is beautiful. I was happy to get a picture of it while I was supposed to be working.

Who, me?

While searching for a third picture, I found Candice DeLong of Deadly Women and other true crime shows. Last night while I was clicking around RokuTV, I found Deadly Women and watched a couple of episodes. It is a total re-enactment-fest, which I don’t particularly like, but I loves me some Candice DeLong.

Reading over this post before I hit Publish, I think it reads like I haven’t had coffee in a week. Maybe I’ll try for a caffeinated post tomorrow.

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I’m Really Lame This Time!

Posted on June 6, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello, and welcome to yet another Lame Post Friday blog post. My challenge today is to blog for at least 200 words without whining. Regular readers know how difficult this will be for a big fat baby brat like me. I say it is good to challenge yourself. I think my Media Library can help me now.

Herman looks a little worried.

Dracula’s House of Halloween is a fun Facebook page I follow. Full disclosure: it does not matter too much to me that today is Friday. I do not intend to go to Happy Hour, and ever since I quit my day job (against all advice) (you know how people love to say, “Don’t quit your day job!” I hate it when people do that), it does not matter a great deal what day it is. However, I do have the television on at a mere one in the afternoon. I usually do not indulge in television till evening. I feel like a lady of leisure.

Oh, yeah, music!

I believe this is the Play It Again Band at Fratello’s Pizzeria in Frankfort, NY. Last night Matt Grainger was playing there. I was really sorry I could not take a drive over there and enjoy, but felt unable to do so (long story, not very interesting). I would really like to get out and take in the local music scene more often, as I used to do (preview of coming attractions?).

The neighbors’ azaleas.

I end with some flowers to cheer myself up. This bush is located a few houses down from me, where I do not think anybody currently resides. I hope somebody moves in soon. I do not like to see empty houses. They might rot, or become zombie properties. I don’t care for zombies.

I see that I approach 300 words, with a minimum of whining. I am short on the random observations and half-baked philosophy in which I usually indulge on Lame Post Friday, but I trust my post is sufficiently lame and at least mildly entertaining. Happy Friday, everyone.