82 degrees Monday, snow this morning

Good Wednesday morning to you.

The storm left a frozen city in its wake.

Windshields are crusted in ice. Some roads are treacherous.

It’s 32 degrees, but with the wind chill it feels like 20.

A freeze warning is in effect, there have been many car crashes, and two lanes of the Belt Parkway are closed in Brooklyn because of ice.

Pity the garden plants with the audacity to bloom in April.

(New York Times, 4/16/2014)

 

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China Here We Come

Nancy and I are off on another Road Scholar adventure...this time to China.  That should be a bit more interesting than repairing the overhang in Fillmore. Here's a brief overview:

Arrival Beijing (China), 4 nights; flight to Luoyang, 2 nights; train to Xi’an, 3 nights; flight to Lhasa (Tibet), 4 nights; flight to Chongqing; Yangtze River study cruise, 3 nights; disembark in Yichang, flight to Shanghai, 3 nights; departure.  

 

 

Our accomodations are listed over there in the sidebar.

We're really lucky that we have a non-stop flight from Newark 

Thurs, April 24, United Airlines 89, leaving Newark at 11:55 a.m. and arriving in Beijing at 1:45 p.m., but that's on April 25!  Beijing (and all of China is 12 hours ahead of NYC, and 15 ahead of LA).  The flight is some 14 hours long.

Returning on United 87 from Shanghai on Weds, May 14, leaving Shanghai at 3:55 p.m. and arriving Newark at 6:30 p.m.  the same day.  That flight is some 14 and a half hours long although I would rather think it was the 2 and a half it is if you do simple math.

You can check the Road Scholar site for lots more information if you want to get ahead of us.

Overhang repairs

Once again, I've forgotten to take the before pictures. So I hope you remember how the top coat on the overhang was hanging down in front of the living room and the holes.

Next in process?..first wetting and removing the top coat...

then patching holes

Lots of spackling and plastering (needless to say I'm not in construction

 

Then priming and painting .......and the results

 

 

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