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I Start Lame and Go From There

Posted on December 1, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Perhaps posting every other day will be a thing for a while. No promises. However, I managed to find my way to the dining-room-table-top and, well, here I am.

I just paused to get some coffee. Surely that will help (after all, somebody’s name might be Shirley).

Not the cup I am using, but I wanted to add an illustration.

In my favor today: it is Lame Post Friday. Although I have made a habit lately of making my Lame Post Friday post early Saturday morning and my Throwback Thursday post early Friday morning, I feel fairly certain today’s will be somewhat of a lame post. Then again, a couple of Throwback pictures might pep things up.

A favorite scene.

From spring of 2019, a scene from Morning’s at Seven at Ilion Little Theatre, with my dear friend Jim. That play is a great theatre memory.

Oh yeah, Christmas is coming.

I was casting about, looking for other theatre memories but found this shot of my late, dearly missed husband, Steve, and a newscaster from WKTV whose name escapes me, stuffing the bus with toys for poor kids for Christmas 2019. I must purchase something with which to stuff the bus this year. Or perhaps I could win something at 4Pet’s Sake Food Pantry’s basket raffle on Saturday (preview of coming attractions). I donated an afghan to the event.

May be an image of text that says 'BASKET RAFFLE 4PetSake Mohawk Legion 43W.MainSt, 43 W. Main Mohawk Food Pantry Inc. Benefits 4PetSake Food Pantry Saturday December, 2nd from 12-4 PM'

I plan to be there!

So now we have veered into Non-Sequitur territory, and I am over 200 words. I adjourn for more coffee and wish you all a pleasant Friday.

I Just Couldn’t Resist!

Posted on June 15, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Every week I say to myself, don’t go out this week. Stay in, save money, save calories. I agree with me at the time. Then Wednesday rolls around, and I want to go to Fratello’s Pizzeria in Frankfort for music and food. Today I went and once again was glad I did.

Justin Smithson was playing. I have heard him before and loved him. I was happy to hear him again.

Excellent musician!

I was loving his acoustic guitar. He played a mix of songs from The Eagles to Jimmy Buffet to Johnny Cash and more. When he sag, “I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,” I said, “Yes, we have,” because it had been raining all day. He smiled.

A couple walked in and greeted Justin. I thought the man looked familiar and asked did I know him. He said he used to be on TV. It was Steve McMurray of WKTV in Utica, NY. He is general manager now so not on the air as often. I told him of a time my husband I had met him at a Stuff the Bus campaign one December.

“I took a picture for my blog, but I don’t remember if I used it. If I can find it I’ll put it in tonight’s post,” I said.

My Steve loved to donate toys.

It took some looking, but I found them! It was actually November 2019. It is a good memory. I will be sure to donate to Stuff the Bus again this year.

Full disclosure: when I got home I was too tired to make the post so am making it Thursday morning. And I need more coffee.

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I Hope Nobody Comes Along and Drops a House on Me

Posted on August 9, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

Our area is under a severe thunderstorm warning. Naturally Steven and I went out to sit on the deck till it got here. We each took a glass of wine, and I brought my Tablet, to take a picture or two for blogging purposes.

I’m not sure the Tablet captures the color and light.

This is the view over our back fence. One of my favorite skies is a dark one hit by sunshine. This was not as dramatic as some I have seen, but I believe in appreciating what I see. We sat down, sipped our wine and chatted. Eventually I took another picture.

What do you see in the clouds?

This is to my left. I think some of the clouds may be the same as in the other shot, but it is hard to say. I decided to walk put front and see what the clouds looked like there.

“It’s probably not as dark,” I predicted. I was correct. However, as I got ready to take a picture of the blue sky and white clouds, I saw that darker ones were moving in. I tried to capture both.

Pretty ominous!

When I showed that one to Steven, he said I should send it to Jill Reale. For non-local readers (and local readers who don’t happen to know), Jill Reale is the meteorologist on WKTV morning news. She shares weather photos that readers send to her via social media. How proud I would be to be featured! So I posted it on her Facebook page.

I sat back down. Soon we picked up our wine glasses, because the wind had picked up.

“I should make a video of this,” I said, watching tree branches whip back and forth. I don’t know that I am technologically advanced enough for video.

In any case, it soon started to rain, so we came inside, and I made this blog post. I wonder if I can come up with a headline striking enough to constitute a Non-Sequitur Thursday post.

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Another Blogger’s Sad Day

Posted on January 12, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

Watch the local news, I said, while I do my blog post. Then we’ll watch something else together. Oh am I sorry I ever did that. I cannot do a silly Friday Lame Post now. I don’t know if I can do a coherent blog post at all. But you know me, I’m going to type in something and I’ll probably make a joke or two, however inappropriate they may feel.

The lead story on WKTV News was a house fire in Herkimer, NY (where I live) in which three children died. What a terrible tragedy. The next story was also about a fire. No people died, but before I could feel any relief about that, I heard that the pets were lost. That was when Steven changed the channel and put it on Snapped: Killer Couples. It’s not my favorite, but it is less depressing.

Well, here is a topic for some half-baked philosophy, in which I often indulge on Lame Post Friday. Why is murder less depressing than accidental death? The murder victim is rarely asking for it, in any sense of the expression. In fact, sometimes I feel very sad about the person who dies. But it feels more remote. It feels like I’m only hearing a story, especially on what I call the re-enactment-fests. Still, it is a true story.

OK, Steven just got fed up with Killer Couples and especially with the Previews of Even More Disturbing Coming Attractions. He put it on Judge Mathis. I guess we’re both still pretty perturbed. Full disclosure: I’ve been feeling down all week, and I have no reason to feel down, so I am not looking for sympathy, go ahead and play that miniature violin for me. But I am going to wrap up one of my most blah posts ever. I’ll hope for a better day tomorrow.

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Thankful No One Was Hurt

Posted on November 25, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

Oh dear! Well, I had meant to write something quite different for a blog post, in fact had started something earlier. However, I came home to find that something terribly upsetting had happened. A local business burned down.

Ramar Liquor, which we have patronized numerous times, caught fire this afternoon. Steven found out about it while it was happening, because he works at a nearby business. Their parking lot was filled with smoke; you could even smell it in the store. Customers told him they could see flames shooting up into the air.

Ramar was the first liquor store we knew about in Herkimer. When we moved into the village, we realized our house was a comfortable walking distance from the store. I believe I wrote a blog post about Walking with a Nefarious Purpose. As recently as last month we took a stroll there on a Sunday afternoon. It was a nice little family-run business. I do spread my liquor dollar around (and try to give shout-outs to other stores as well), but Ramar’s was one I was always glad to patronize.

It was a great shock, therefore, when I arrived home this evening after a lovely Thanksgiving with family, and Steven asked had I heard about it. I had not. I was surprised I had not, because I had looked at Facebook and I would expect people to post about such a thing. After some looking, I found the WKTV video.

So I guess this is an odd post to make on Thanksgiving Day. Then again, I did threaten a Non-Sequitur Thursday. However, in the spirit of the day (Thanksgiving, I mean, not Non-Sequitur Thursday), I can think of one thing to be thankful for. Hence, the headline. Happy Thanksgiving, folks.

Mohawk Valley Girl