Friday in New York
Hi from me again. It is only 6.30am. Waking at 5.30am in the morning is a little better than the 4am of the last couple of days!
At last the jetlag might be shifting! It is also nice now the heatwave has ended, and we can open the windows for a cool breeze. Ah lovely!
Yesterday I managed to get not too lost and find the Historic Dyckman Framhouse just down the road. (I am having a little
trouble getting my bearings again, especially in a new suburb)!
Anyway, it was good to have a walk, even though most of it was in the wrong direction, after I came back from accompanying Jo to work.
Good to read and find out a little of the history of the place. Hard to imagine this suburb way back when it was a farming area!
Here is the photo of the storm the other night when I came up out of the subway. Except I didn't manage to capture the lightning..sorry about that! I managed to lose it off this post the other night.
Some nice fellow showed me where the elevators were that night, and then waited under the awning until I contacted Jo and Andrew by phone, Then he had to dive off into the rain and storm himself in the opposite direction. That was very kind of him. God sends his angels in disguise!
And here, of course is the fruit cart on the street , on the way to Jo's work the other day. Poor Jo gets a little worried about my taking photos all the time! Sorry if I embarrassed you, Jo!
And here, of course is the fruit cart on the street , on the way to Jo's work the other day. Poor Jo gets a little worried about my taking photos all the time! Sorry if I embarrassed you, Jo!
I have been given a nice "Blogging with Purpose" award. Thankyou John-Michael from http://justbeingjohnmichael.blogspot.com/ It is an honour to receive it from you, especially with all the inspiration you provide to people! I look forward to putting it into the sidebar , just as soon as I find out how to do that! And then I have to pass it on to other people. Help, since I was tagged and had to tag 7 others the other day, mmm, I might have to think about it, and put it in the next post! I didn't realise what an effort it is to put all the links on..takes me ages!
Being on someone else's computer complicates matters, albeit a spare computer...thanks kids! It is very handy with Andrew working from home here...I have tech support when I need it. Aren't I lucky. Isn't Andrew unlucky! He is very patient with my lack of computer skills and knowledge. But I do like to get out and about and give him a break from having me here all the time. Which is why I came to find the farmhouse yesterday. Usually end up here for an afternoon nap. I wonder what adventures await today. Of course we all wonder which day the baby will decide to arrive. Jo got a good report from the doctor yesterday for her 38 week visit , so all is well.
ANSWER to the QUESTION in the previous blogpost...re the photo...it was a photo of the dirt along the bottom of the train..it made such a wonderful pattern I had to take a photo of it! You can see where it would be in the next photo of the train itself.
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I am so grateful for the Gift of your sweet and gracious Spirit in my world. You improve the atmosphere in most enjoyable ways.
Loving You ...
Thank you! Wonderful photos and post. And I am glad an angel guided you. It is scary in a storm at the best of times, but in a strange town...
Hope everything goes well with Jo. How wonderful that you travel half way around the world to be with her.
And well done on your award. Well deserved.
John Michael, I did manage to get the 'bloggng with purpose' pikkie down onto the side bar thanks. I did need Andrew's help for a bit. It is weird using someone else's computer, as when I go to save, can't work out where all MY picture have gone..back on MY computer thousands of miles away. However I now have my own directory on their spare computer , and it is not taking me so long to fill it up with pikkies at all, so all is well! But thanks for your offer of help anyway!
Cath, nice to hear from you again. Yes, I am praying for Jo constantly. It is hard to watch her having to struggle to work each day this late in her pregnancy, but I guess that is really her choice. I think she would be unhappier at home, thinking of all the things that needed doing at work! She is only working half days which is really good! Fortunately she will be taking time off later after the bub arrives..hooray!
Travelling half way round the world to see her..who wouldn't ..it is a privilege. And a way of seeing the world that I prefer, living in a community, rather than as tourist. I actually feel very 'at home' whenever I get back to New York. I hadn't realised what a vibrant place it is until my first visit. Though on every 12 hour flight, I am always promising myself that I am never doing it again...but I do! Hoping your own transition back to work goes ok Cath, was reading a little of your struggle last night when I was "awake in the night".
btw, I think you said you are from Lancashire. My mother's grandparents came from Didsbury, that's near Manchester as far as I have researched. I think they were connected with cotton mills, so it is always interesting to read a little of that history from that era. Mum thought they might have owned cotton mills (but this info only came to light after Mum read a novel about an owner of a cotton mill later in life), and I told her that that might not have been such a good thing to be, back in in those days. Certainly, and I was saying this to someone else a while ago, that they lost five infants in a row between the birth of their first two children in England, and the last two when they arrived in Australia in the 1860's ...sometimes I can't imagine how you would survive such a thing!
Being a mill owner would be far better than a mill worker in terms of survival and standard of living. Although mill owners would be unpopular with the general community, they had their own community. Big 2 class system at that time with a big gap between - workers and owners, have-nots and haves!
But they did have their trials with mortality rates for children - better for owners but even they could not avoid illness and disease. It puts our own struggles into perspective really doesn't it?