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I forgot to mention the Old Ebbitt Grill downtown near the Whitehouse. It’s a great place for lunch. The oldest bar in DC.

Heading into freeze week here. It’s been cold the past few days barely breaking 30 but next week, which is typically the coldest week of the year in the Northeast promises to hold true with single digit temps. We get a…[Read more]

About 5 years ago there was an east coast earthquake that ran from Boston to Virginia, The Washington suffered cracking. I too like the view from the outside now.

The are some great restaurants in the Georgetown section

Oki Bowl – Asian
Rimtang -Thai
Burgers – La Bonne Vache
Pizza – Pizzeria Paradiso
Sushi – Kyojin Sushi
Schnitzel – Kafè…[Read more]

There’s plenty to see. My new favorite is Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center a/k/a the new air and space museum extension out in Chantily VA. It’s a bit of haul from downtown, about 1:45. It has the latest in air travel. If you haven’t been to the monuments, consider an electric bike tour. It’s probably the quickest way to tour them. It’ll save a…[Read more]

April should be nice. The cherry blossoms should be open, at least what’s left of them. Biden’s administration removed a lot of them. I always stayed just outside of the city and Metro’d in. The hotel rates were 1/3 to 1/2 inside the city. You ride the metro so much to get around when you stay inside, that staying along the metro outside is…[Read more]

DC was a great city to visit, but the City Council and Mayor have ruined it like many other big cities. Crime is rampant. I have to say the Metro Subway system is the best I’ve ever ridden. Well, it’s also the newest. The residents and visitors keep it clean unlike MY and LA. And its surprisingly quiet unlike the one in NYC. No riffraff…[Read more]

DC had it far worse than us. We had only 2″ though it was enough to cause me to blow the dust off the shovel. It’s the first snowfall more than a dusting in 3 years. I wanted to get back into working outside, but this wasn’t what I had in mind.

My wife tells friends I never retired, just changed careers to a tradesman. Matter of fact I went from working 5 days a week to 6 and 7. All that is finally winding down. Little things keep popping up. My son gave me a vintage neon Chevy sign so I spent yesterday wiring a new wall outlet so I could hang with the outlet hidden behind the sign.…[Read more]

My daughter dragged her clan down for news year’s eve. Great. Had to stay up for the kids to see the fireworks. She put the two little ones to bed then bugged with the SIL out for a late evening dinner and party a bit leaving us to tend to the 3 older ones. It totally blew my plan to hit the bed early and enjoy new year’s day. They atoned for…[Read more]

Ho Ho Ho Spent the Eve at an Unc’s house and the usual 17 suspects. Spent the night at the daughter’s house then went to a son’s house for Christmas with the same 17 suspects. Came home knocked out. It snowed by them and little melted. Then the Kiddies wanted to play football outside in the snow. It was 42F so it wasn’t too bad except a few got…[Read more]

Wrong, 2″ of snow. 16 F with a high of 25. Declined a late invite from my son to the Penn State v SMU game, just too freakin’ cold and old to leave 6 AM and drive 4.5 hours up and back to spend 4 hours in a 25F wind blown stadium. He and his alum buddies went and froze their butts off at the top of the stadium. But, he did get into Beulah’s…[Read more]

Those guessers are saying 1-2″ of snow Friday. We’ll see. I’m guessing rain.

Hit 62 today. A storm glided up from the south and brought some warm air with the rain. Back to mid 30’s tomorrow but it sure felt nice.

Nj hasn’t been anywhere near as bad as NYC. At least NJ revised the juvie code but its still not as tough as it was 6 years ago. The mayor of NYC indicates he has done a 180 on crime and illegal immigrants. He no longer sanctuary city as a title and has been paying for flights to get them out. Their no bail policy and juvie code hasn’t…[Read more]

Those weather guessers were up to no good again yesterday. They predicted one of those cyclone bombs to hit last night.

NOT

It just rolled passed us out on the Atlantic and ran into Long Island, Rhode Island, Mass and Maine. Got a nice drizzle though if only 1″ of water. GKs are back on the mats this weekend.

Here too. 1.5″ expected over the next 24 hours. A nice slow seep into the ground which will benefit tree roots.

Ducked another snow squall that hit the kids up north. Yesterday was the coldest day since January 21, 2023. 50’s will be back tomorrow.

it’s amazing what winter hibernation motivates a person to do.

Speaking of winter, only 16 more days until that sun clock starts moving forward again.

There will be snow further north tonight but the coastal wind will keep it away from us. Right now we’re 43 daughter an hour north is 23. The kiddie wrestling season opened last Saturday. The 2 younger boys placed 2ndl, 3-1 record out of 16. The older 2 didn’t place going 1-2. Oldest granddaughter switched cheer this winter, more school…[Read more]

We bought an electric push mower, 60 V, when we moved in. The lot is only a 1/4 acre and probably 50% is covered with pavers and garden so it was a borderline decision for a rider. I figured I’d have plenty of time to walk it. It’s self-propelled so it becomes a walking exercise. The big advantage is…no maintenance except cleaning grass from…[Read more]

I never played much pinball growing up, but when I was in an arcade I usually played a baseball game where you press one button and the pitch rolls out through a tunnel in the bottom of the machine and there’s another button to swing a bat. There are knock down targets in the field for hits and gaps between them for outs if you miss a knockdown.…[Read more]