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ELLE DECORs 2011 A-List
By Elle Decor Staff
Bassam Fellows
Handcrafted, organic, and rooted in nature: Australian architect and designer Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows, a former creative director in fashion, describe their style as "Craftsman modern." A gorgeous wood grain is often all the ornament they need, whether they are designing spare interiors for the James hotel in Los Angeles or renovating their own Philip Johnson house. bassamfellows.com
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Left: A suite in the James hotel in Los Angeles.
Alessandra Branca
Call her a passionate neoclassicist. Born in Italy, Branca developed an aesthetic steeped in antiquity. Nonetheless, she's a woman of our times. She likes comfortable rooms and the color red—also stripes that recall vintage mattress ticking. Expect plush upholstery and fabrics, as well as shapes you'd find in a museum's Greco-Roman hall, accented with anything from Moroccan mirrors to Chinese foo dogs. branca.com
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Left: Branca's Manhattan bedroom.
Sheila Bridges
This New York decorator is known for her savvy updates on traditional Americana—from her handsome design for Bill Clinton's Harlem offices to the spirited interiors of her own Colonial weekend home in New York's Hudson Valley. She has a fashionista's sense of pattern and color (yellow is a favorite) and an eye for the standout element—a Fornasetti rug, a Frank Gehry cardboard chair—that makes a room click. sheilabridges.com
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Left: A guest room in Bridges's Harlem apartment.
Mark Cunningham
As you might expect from a Polo Ralph Lauren alumnus, this New York designer's rooms tend to be masculine, well tailored, and timeless. He likes his palette neutral, but the Florida-born designer isn't afraid of shades like light blue and royal purple either. He mixes crisply upholstered custom-made pieces, American antiques, and accessories ranging from Coromandel screens to rough-hewn doors set into pristine white walls, all resulting in a quietly invigorating look. markcunninghaminc.com
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Left: Cunningham's living room in upstate New York.
Ernest De La Torre
De la Torre worked at Peter Marino Architects, studied at Sotheby's in London, teamed with Ian Schrager, and created furniture and lighting for Ralph Lauren Home. Now based in Manhattan, he specializes in projects created around art collections. Among his triumphs is the historic Cooper Mansion in Tuxedo Park, New York, a 1900 Jacobean Revival house. De la Torre's rooms are luxurious, comfortable, and adventurous. delatorredesign.com
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Left: A sitting room at Cooper Mansion in Tuxedo Park.
Jamie Drake
If Michael Bloomberg is a modern Medici, then Jamie Drake is his Michelangelo. Of course, this New York decorator with the famously fearless sense of color has also created a home for Madonna, but it's his 20-year working relationship with New York City's mayor that has helped define his design career. Mint and turquoise, purple and red, fuchsia and black: Drake never met a color combination he didn't take for a whirl. drakedesignassociates.com
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Left: Drake's Manhattan living room.
Thom Filicia
Even before this affable decorator appeared on TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2003, he was a rising star in the design world. He cut his teeth working for Parish-Hadley, Robert Metzger, and Jeffrey Bilhuber. Filicia—a self-described "democratic design snob"—believes passionately in personal style. He loves the big mix, unconventional pairings, lots of red, and witty surprises—and clients from Jennifer Lopez to the W hotels love him right back. thomfilicia.com
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Left: The living area in Filicia's SoHo apartment.
Alexa Hampton
She was just in her 20s when her father—the great American decorator Mark Hampton—passed away. Since then, this down-to-earth designer has proven her talent with elegant interiors that build on her father's legacy while demonstrating her own viewpoint. Sparkling chandeliers, silk draperies, tufted sofas—her work eschews trends and consistently wows us. She's prolific too, designing fabrics for Kravet, furniture for Hickory Chair, and carpets for Stark. markhampton.com
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Left: A Manhattan living room
James Huniford
He starts with a neutral envelope, all the better to frame the perfect object—whether it's a Donald Judd desk, a Louis XVI chair, or a piece of rusted farm equipment that, in this powerhouse designer's hands, takes on the sublime form of sculpture. This is decorating at its most muscular and glamorous, whether Huniford is furnishing his own Hamptons beach house or a posh Park Avenue apartment. jameshuniford.com
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Left: Huniford's den in Bridgehampton.
Kathryn M. Ireland
This vivacious Brit—one of Bravo's Million-Dollar Decorators—is known for a relaxed, congenial approach that mixes classic English style with a taste for the exotic. Though based in Santa Monica, California, where her high-powered clients include actors such as Steve Martin, she also maintains a home in Provence where she loves to entertain. Her sunny fabric collection includes colorful Indian cottons and Javanese-influenced batik prints. kathrynireland.com
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Left: A guest room in Ireland's home in France.
Jay Jeffers
Known for his playful, pattern laden rooms, this decorator channels David Hicks for a West Coast clientele. He loves to create drama—a living room has coral walls, a mustard ceiling, and built-in bookcases with Mughal-inspired arches. Still, he knows when to pull back: At the 2010 ELLE DECOR Showhouse in San Francisco, his master bedroom was a neutral study in luxe, from the cashmere upholstery to a platform bed of his own design in gray tweed. jeffersdesigngroup.com
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Left: Jeffers's bedroom at the ELLE DECOR 2010 Showhouse.
David Kleinberg
David Kleinberg, who spent 16 years with Parish-Hadley before starting his own firm in 1997, makes a point of not repeating himself. Still there are some recurring themes in his work: He's committed to uncluttered rooms, furnished with a Francophile's mélange of antiques. His colors tend toward the softly natural; millwork is often light and fabrics are usually soft to the hand and plain. His rooms could be filled with anything, but, thanks to his curatorial eye, every piece seems both ideal and inevitable. dkda.com
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Left: A family room in a Manhattan loft.
Richard Keith Langham
A native Alabaman now based in New York, Langham calls himself old fashioned: His world is full of English-inspired rooms, sky-high curtains, and pedigreed antiques. Langham brings a breath of charming Southern air to classic decorating, tempering grandeur with an infusion of whimsy. Look for an inventive palette— shades like nectarine, tobacco, and mint sorbet. An old-school Anglophile with a 21st-century sense of proportion, Langham has worked his magic for clients like Jacqueline Onassis and Hilary Swank.
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Left: A New Orleans library.
Martyn Lawrence-Bullard
If you're as big an icon as this matinee idol of design, your client list must really rock the charts—say, for example, Cher and Sir Elton John. Typically, a Lawrence-Bullard room is bold, colorful, and eclectic—a sleek take on the romantic and exotic. There's nothing shy about his choice of rarefied antiques, handcrafted global treasures, and palettes that range from spice bazaar to the pastels of Bavarian porcelain. He combines the graphic and overscale with an attention to detail that creates a fantastical banquet for the eye. martynlawrencebullard.com
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Left: A Hollywood Hills bedroom
Jeffrey Alan Marks
When you live in Santa Monica, it's hard not to be influenced by the Pacific, and there is a surfside vibe to many of Marks's interiors—he even suspended a rowboat from his whitewashed bedroom ceiling. His work conjures a reinvented country cottage style crossed with the sophisticated traditions of London, Paris, and Milan. Informed by the past, he embraces everything from Jacobean antiques and four-posters to a chesterfield paired with a midcentury lamp. His visual melody is clean, bright, and whimsical over a bass line of cozy. jam-design.com
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Left: Marks's bedroom in Santa Monica.
McAlpine Booth & Ferrier
Alabama-born Bobby McAlpine has fashioned a Southern-inflected design universe with his two stellar firms—McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors and McAlpine Tankersley Architecture. The McAlpine look combines elegance, restraint, and hospitality. Colors run to light hues and heathery pastels, and although you're more likely to find swagged curtains than midcentury tables, McAlpine finds grace in any piece that wears its age with dignity. mcalpineboothferrier.com
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Left: A salon in San Miguel de Allende.
Richard Mishaan
A trained architect who apprenticed with Philip Johnson, Mishaan favors crisp lines. As a former fashion designer, he knows fabrics—although you'll find more solids and stripes than botanicals: Mishaan has no patience for "fussy ornamentation." He does, however, respect the past. He has a laser-like eye for refinement, and his rooms are glamorous as well as au courant. homerdesign.com
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Left: An Upper East Side dining area.
Juan Montoya
Montoya has presided over his acclaimed New York–based firm for more than three decades, crafting grand, refined interiors that play with neutral colors, scale, and texture. Don't be surprised to see a polished Louis XVI architect's desk in a room with rough plank floors or a Lalique vase on a bronze cocktail table. Art has pride of place in his rooms, as do sculptural accents and contemporary pieces by marquee design names. juanmontoyadesign.com
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Left: Montoya's Hudson Valley studio.
Suzanne Rheinstein
You can tell a lot about a designer's true colors by her own home, and Rheinstein's Georgian Revival brick manse in L.A. bespeaks a user-friendly, understated elegance. She's romantic, but practical too. A Rheinstein room pairs pure neoclassical lines with an informal disposition of furnishings and a closely controlled tone-on-tone palette of soft and muted colors taken from the garden. hollyhockinc.com
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Left: The living room of Rheinstein's Manhattan pied-à-terre.
Roman and Williams
For the Standard hotel in New York, they created a penny tile floor made of real pennies. For Gwyneth Paltrow's living room, they hung a swing made from an antique Indian door. Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch—the married couple and former movie set designers behind this red hot firm—recycle the ephem-era of yesterday into nostalgia-laden spaces that feel right for today. romanandwilliams.com
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Left: A dining area in Montauk.
Todd Alexander Romano
Something old, something new, something borrowed from every design vernacular on earth: That's Todd Romano. The native Texan apprenticed with Mario Buatta before striking out on his own with chic, well-turned-out rooms. In his updated traditional style, Romano plays with contrasts: velvet sofas and minimalist lithographs, Louis XVI bergères on geometric sisal. He favors clean lines and a grocery list of colors: olive, blueberry, and persimmon. toddalexanderromano.com
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Left: A Manhattan library.
Daniel Romualdez
This architect-designer knows glamour, and his clientele (young socialites and fashionistas like Tory Burch, Aerin Lauder, and Daphne Guinness) have made him a top-tier Manhattan favorite. He loves mirrors, glossy floors, lacquered walls. He's also committed to deep, saturated colors and a liberal application of gold and silver. He's equally expert at contemporary design and transforming the halls of a dowager prewar apartment into a trendsetting salon alive with art and antiques.
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Left: An Upper East Side living room.
Shelton, Mindel & Associates
Since Peter L. Shelton and Lee F. Mindel founded their firm in 1978, they've won international acclaim, prestigious clients (Sting, Ralph Lauren), and countless awards. Their clean-lined spaces blend stunning architectural craft with casual livability. Members of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, they think of themselves as taking an analytical approach to their work, but a real sensuality shines through too. They like lots of white and pale-blond woods, generous windows, and bursts of sassy color calculated to delight. sheltonmindel.com
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Left: A sitting area in a Manhattan mansion.
Timothy Whealon
After a stint on Wall Street, Whealon worked at Sotheby's, specializing in the decorative arts, and this background served him well when he set up his interior design firm in 1994. A sense of connoisseurship underlies everything this New York designer does, but he has fun with it, mixing 18th-century antiques with '60s finds or tweaking a traditional interior with contemporary art. Fresh colors—from aqua to pale pink—tie it all together. timothywhealon.com
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Left: Whealon's Manhattan living room.
Yabu Pushelberg
Modernist but not minimalist, Canadians George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg create spaces that combine high style luxury with eye catching theatrics. They are as adept at subtly transforming Tiffany & Co.'s flagship as they are at creating a surfer-chic getaway for Ian Schrager's Waikiki Edition hotel in Honolulu. Their residential work is equally dazzling.
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Left: Yabu and Pushelberg's living room in Toronto.


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Or find a doctor at another Johns Hopkins Medicine member:
Eric Hutton Raabe, MD PhD
Out of State Patients
Call 410-464-6641 (8a.m. to 6p.m., EST, Mon-Fri)
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- Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Instructor of Pathology
Centers & Institutes
- Pediatric Oncology Program
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Brain Cancer, Medical Oncology, Pediatric Oncology
Research Interests
pediatric brain tumors; cancer metabolism; cancer stem cells
- English
- French
1993 - current Sigma Xi
2008 - current American Association for Cancer Research
2012- current Society for Neuro-oncology
2013- current Children's Oncology Group
Education +
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Office of Student Affairs and Admissions (Cincinnati OH ) (2003)
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Office of Student Affairs and Admissions (Cincinnati OH ) (2002)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Pediatrics (Philadelphia PA ) (2006)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Pediatric Oncology (Baltimore MD ) (2011)
- National Institutes of Health - Credentialing Services Section / Pediatric Oncology (Bethesda MD ) (2011)
- American Board of Pediatrics / Pediatrics (2008)
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Research Summary
Dr. Raabe's research focuses on translational neuro-oncology, with the overall goal being to develop new therapeutics for poor prognosis brain tumors. Dr. Raabe's expertise is in stem cell biology, developmental biology and pre-clinical therapeutics. He has generated one of a handful of human diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cell lines that form xenografts with high fidelity to the primary tumor and retain the H3F3A K27M mutation. He has expertise in targeting stem cell factors in aggressive brain tumors in vivo and in vitro. Dr. Raabe has developed normal human neural stem cells for use as genetically accurate gain-of-function models for high-risk brain tumors.
Selected Publications
Raabe, E.H., Lim, K.S., Kim, JM., Meeker, A., Mao, XG., Nikkhah, G., Macizczyk, J., Kahlert, U., Jain, D., Bar, E., Cohen, KJ, Eberhart CG. "BRAF Activation Induces Transformation and then Senescence in Human Neural Stem Cells: A Pilocytic Astrocytoma Model." Clinical Cancer Research, (2011) Jun 1;17(11):3590-9.
Raabe, E.H., Eberhart, C.G. "Methylome Alterations 'Mark' New Therapeutic Opportunities in Glioblastoma. Cancer Cell. (2012) October 16; 22(4): 417-8.
Mao, XG, Hütt-Cabezas, M, Orr, BA, Weingart, M, Taylor I, Rajan K, OdiaY, Kahlert U, Maciaczyk J, NikkhahG, Eberhart CG, Raabe EH. LIN28A facilitates the transformation of human neural stem cells and promotes glioblastoma tumor formation by enacting a pro-invasive genetic program. Oncotarget. 2013 Jul;4(7):1050-64. PMCID 3759665
Raabe EH, Kieran MW, Cohen KJ. New Strategies in Pediatric Gliomas: Molecular Advances in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas as a Model. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Jul 23.
Heaphy CM, Schreck KC, Raabe E, Mao XG, An P, Chu Q, Poh W, Jiao Y, Rodriguez FJ, Odia Y, Meeker AK, Eberhart CG. A glioblastoma neurosphere line with alternative lengthening of telomeres. Acta Neuropathol. 2013 Sep 11.
Ballester LY, Wang Z, Shandilya S, Miettinen M, Burger P, Eberhart CG, Rodriguez F, Raabe E, Warren KE, Quezado M. Morphologic characteristics and immunohistochemical profile of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas. Am J Surg Pathol. 2013 Sep;37(9):1357-64. PMCID 3787318
Hütt-Cabezas M, Karajannis MA, Zagzag D, Shah S, Horkayne-Szakaly I, Rushing EJ, Cameron JD, Jain D, Eberhart CG, Raabe EH*, Rodriguez FJ*. Activation of mTORC1/mTORC2 signaling in pediatric low-grade glioma and pilocytic astrocytoma reveals mTOR as a therapeutic target. Neuro Oncol. 2013 Nov 6. *Co-corresponding author.
Dr. Raabe currently has a research group composed of research assistants, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows. He continues to work closely with Dr. Charles Eberhart, who is a neuro-pathologist and core collaborator.
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October 2002 Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
July 2008 St. Baldrick's Fellowship award winner
May 2011 Francis Schwentker Award for Excellence in Research by Pediatrics House Staff and Fellows at Johns Hopkins
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Recent News Articles & Media Coverage
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Grand Rounds Lectures
May 2011 Francis Schwentker Address at Pediatrics Grand Rounds Johns Hopkins Children's Center
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The Johns Hopkins Hospital600 N. Wolfe StreetCharlotte R. Bloomberg Childrens Center11th Floor - Pediatric OncologyBaltimore, MD 21287Phone: 410-614-5055Appointment Phone: 443-287-6997Location MapDepartment/Division
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Lifestyles Editor William Wright had been in search of an answer for the aching sensations that sent him from one doctor to another. Answers to their questions, however, only raised more questions in a mystery that had him racing with time to discover what was threatening his life.
"I had some form of worsening asthma, according to Dr. Ahmad Ibrahmbacha (Basha)," Wright explained. "My breathing score was getting lower from the last time he saw me and he prescribed oxygen, an inhalant powder and a rescue inhaler. I resisted, believing I had a shortness of breath, because it did not feel that way to me," he said. "But my scores did not lie. Still, I could not believe the painful sensations that smothered my lungs was asthma. It went down into my arms with a burning cringe that lasted from five to 20 minutes and it was happening more often. Dr. Basha felt I should see a heart doctor right away."
When Wright went to see Dr. James L. Marcum, with the Chattanooga Heart Institute in Cleveland, and explained his symptoms, Marcum agreed to set up a stress test but suggested he take Prilosec for heartburn and eat earlier in the day. Surprisingly, Wright said that alieviated some of his pain and felt he was on the road to recovery.
But what looked like recovery was only a mask.
When he went to Dollywood to cover a story about the new water roller coaster, Wright and his wife, Linda, were confronted with the usual walk to each distination. And those walks exposed his real problem.
"People twice my age and weight were passing me!" Wright said. "It was so confusing. I used the asthma emergency inhaler but to no avail. This was not asthma. This was not heartburn. I could barely walk 25 steps and not feel totally exhausted." He said. Looking back, he knew he could have had a heart attack out there and died, but was later told his heart was very strong. "I could not wait for my stress test appointment which was the following week!"
Right after the stress test, Wright was asked to lay down quickly and hold his breath to get an accurate reading. The reading was abnormal. There was a problem, but this machine could not pinpoint it. Dr. Marcum happened to be there at that very moment, saw the abnormality and made an urgent appointment for Wright for the very next day, using the "gold standard" for discovering any heart problem.
"In the meantime," Marcum said, "I don't want you walking up a flight of stairs or doing anything stressful until you get that test,."
"Dr. Marcum was on his was to Russia the following day, so I consider it a special blessing that he was there to take care of this matter and then turn it over to one of his colleagues," Wright said. "I was told I may need a stint and thoughts of my own father's demise a week after refusing stints went through my head. I happily agreed and they decide to keep me in the hospital overnight."
When the test was over Dr. Andrew Fowler immediately sat down next to Wright and said, "Stints won't fix this. You're going to need bypass on five of the arteries leading to your heart. We'll have to get someone who can handle this."
Wright said he and his wife were told he had inherited damage to his lungs, but apparently had never been diagnosed for it.
"I was always under the assumption that after having double pnuemonia as a child my lungs were weak and my stamina was impacted," Wright said. "Yes, I have always felt those aching sensations in my chest as a child, but it was when I exerted myself too much. Now it was happening everytime I walked up a flight of stairs!"
Even with diet and exercise, a person with inherited damage to the lungs, heart or other organs can do just so much. But the greater success for a healthier life lies with routine physical checkups and getting the best treatment.
"If it was not for the constant support of my wife who decided to treat this like a heart problem - putting me on a special heart diet and surprising me with a case of red wine even before we knew what this was - I may not have made it. I thank Jehovah for her and for His support through family, friends and a very skilled medical staff. I hope this helps raise awareness about a problem that nearly put me six feet under."
Wright added he is glad he and his wife "did not give up in our search for the answer to this medical mystery. I had great doctors all around who continue to look after my health and look into my past to determine what's best for me today."
He said he could not have asked for a better heart surgeon than Dr. Richard Morrison, who not only gave him reassurance, but gave him the best possible care he could have asked for. "He respected my religious beliefs and treated the whole person, which contributed to my recovery," he continued. "And those wonderful nurses at Memorial Hospital, where I had my surgery, treated me like family. They were patient, caring, attentive, very thoughtful, but always so positive and humorous that it gave me a new spirit of recovery."
But, he added, "I'll save that story for another day and time."


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Fully lined with cushion insole
Material: Suede
Brand: Diesel
Origin: Imported
Diesel's knack for artfully deconstructed design has made it a go-to clothing brand for stylish downtown types ever since its 1978 debut. Founded by Renzo Rosso and Adriano Goldschmied and headquartered in Breganze, Italy, Diesel enjoys its reputation as world's premier men's and women's denim brands — outfitting celebs such as Britney Spears and fashionistas worldwide. But Diesel does much more than jeans, applying its note-perfect aesthetic to everything from underwear and swimsuits to shoes and leather accessories, watches, eyewear, children's clothes, even Ducati motorcycles and special-edition Fiat cars. Launched in 2007, Diesel's Black Gold label offers distressed jeans and leather gear for rock 'n' roll types, while its Jogg jeans denim division offers innovative "sweatpant denim" pants and jackets for the comfort-first set. With every design, Diesel stays true to its core aesthetic: bold, urban, and fashion-forward.


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Good Morning Ladies,
Just getting us started for the weekend.
Good morning ladies,
Thanks for opening, Alabama.
Got my stuffing in the oven, the mashed potatoes made and a pan of monkey bread made so far this morning. Still waiting for people to wake up. GD just woke up as I was typing. So that's a start.
We are headed to the wildlife park this morning if we can get people moving early enough. SIL and GS have plans for this afternoon so we need to do the wildlife park this morning if we are going to do it.
Dogs are up so need to go. Better check the oven too.
Have a good day.
Today is laundry day and we are meeting a friend at the dog park at 9. So I don't have a lot of time this morning. Just wanted to pop in and say HI. I am grateful that we are home this weekend, but it is going to be a busy one. I have herbalife training tomorrow, then we are going out Saturday night with some friends, and then Sunday I have freezer meal workshop I am going to with a dogpark mom/pampered chef distributor, and I still need to get the veggies for that.
I also need to mow the lawn today, but it will have to wait until this afternoon as the grass is pretty wet this morning.
Di, I hope you make it to the wildlife park. That sounds like fun!
Bama, thanks for opening.
Mo, I hope things are settling in with you aunt. Sorry about the Risperdal RX. I hope it helps and you don't have to use it much, and hopefully the bloodwork will give you some answers.
Yah, I hope you don't get called in today!
Sue, sorry about the missed workout.
Barb, hope all is well with you!
Well I better go and throw some stuff in the washer before we leave for the park.
Hello again, Well we got the back of the house finished . He also did some trimming and cleaned out the gutters so that was three jobs . We always have cleaning on those gutters since we have so many pine trees in the yard. I am in for the rest of the afternoon. I just can not take the heat and the gnats. In the nineties already.
Our Realtor just left and he said that our house had more hits on it then any they had . I thought Darn them someone buy it. The house across the street from us is for sale and he just lowered the price. The owner came over as he was doing yard work and wanted to borrow our blower and was telling us that the house across from him is getting ready to list . So a lot are up for sale. I figure we will be here until next spring . I wouldn't imagine once school starts that many sale .
I need to get my St Joseph Statue in the ground . LOL .
Time for lunch,
Angii, when you get time you will have to tell us about those freezer meals . Enjoy your day sounds like a busy one.
Di, I bet you are enjoying your family and I hope you get to the wildlife park . Sounds like fun.
Toddles for now .
Happy Friday, everyone!
Thanks for getting us started this morning, Bama. Good luck with the spouting job.
Hope you get to the park, Dianna--I'm sure the grandkids would enjoy it. I had to laugh at yet another apple that didn't roll far from your tree! I'll bet it smells wonderful in your house between the stuffing and the monkey bread.
Sounds like a fun weekend, Angii. My sister did one of those freezer meal things and said it was fun.
DA's dr's office called--all her blood work is fine. They said try the Risperdal and let them know if it doesn't work. So onward and upward, just coping with day!
My new method of remaining sane is to go outside and stand barefoot in the grass and take some deep breaths. I was reading a Dr. Mercola article on the benefits of "earthing" the other day and figured, what the heck, it's free and it can't hurt--the only side effect is dirty feet (and the occasional bug bite).
DS called last night. He'll be going to Alaska next Friday for 3 weeks, says he's hoping to see some wildlife. I've never been to AK, but I've always wanted to go; I told him to take lots of pictures! Our conversation left me counting my blessing though--he was saying he just sent a care package to two of his buddies who are in Iraq. If the ISIS thing had arisen 2 weeks earlier, it would have been DS's unit that was sent over. There are 3 Ranger battalions and one is always in the on call position.
Have a great day, everyone~
I see you are all done already, Bama. I was digging in our front flower bed several years ago and found a St Joseph statue. Not being Catholic, I had no idea what it was till I heard someone mention the house sale connection later, and the light bulb went on.
Hi ladies,
We've been busy so I haven't spent much time on the computer. Summer is going so fast! We joined friends for dinner and one of our favorite music groups last night, after making a run to Target and Menards yesterday (an hour away). I think the weekend will be quiet though, at least for me.
I did get a bill in the mail that ruined my day a couple of days ago. The *$%! moving company sent us a bill for the overage charges that I disputed with the credit card company. A year later. Nope, have no plans on paying it but I am so disgusted with having to deal with them again after the way we, and our stuff, was treated last year. Of course I have to calm down before I write a letter, and I have to dig up the files which are stored away. But I have no intention of paying them over $1,200 - which I don't have. Anyway, I may work on it this weekend, or not, depending on my mood.
Better get busy. Have a good weekend!
Afternoon ladies,
I actually did get in the computer room before noon, but had to make some calls and then realized the info the lady gave me was wrong, so will call PG&E back on Monday. Then Ethel buzzed so had to put that stuff away and then do my Food & Exercise journal so now it's noon time LOL
I also got my morning workout in, my walls, doors and baseboards all washed while my fish was cooking for my sandwich and some corn on the cob for tonight.
I took an allergy pill last night along with a Bufferin for my body aches LOL and slept like a log. A couple of pit stops and wake up from some more weird dreams but other than that, OK. Hubby didn't sleep as his back was killing me. I told him he should have woke me up, but he laughingly said "are you kidding you were snoring away".
As for our temps today it was already 85 downtown at 8 a.m. this morning. They said 99 today but now I see they changed it to 102 and methinks even higher, we shall see.
Well I am off to bring down my mail and check that, before it's lunch time. Hoping to do some catch up on my other boards this afternoon.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,
Lawn is mowed, and laundry is brewing! I have a few loads left, plus I am doing the sheets from the camper as they are covered in dog hair. Not sure what else I will get into today as DH came home early. I need to see what is in the closet of the camper so I can plan for packing next week. Hoping that we can get some more work done on the dragster and bikes this weekend.
Well, I better run so I can go help DH in the garage.
Just to pop in and say Good day and hope you all have a great weekend to!! Thanks for opening Bama, and glad you got lots done also I see. Di, hope you got to the wildlife park as it sounds like fun and yum, bet it does smell good at your house! Angii, sound busy enough at home and enjoy the freezer meal thing and your friends also!
Sue, I see you got lots done also and enjoy and relax a bit this weekend and especially on your ME day! Barb, relax and write the letter when you feel good and ready I don't blame you for not paying either! Mo, hope the drug works the good way and just wishing your DA will get back to more like herself soon also. Sounds good with the earth stuff
I DID get called to work today I was up here and there last night and at 5 a.m and thought about getting up in case, but then when it was already 20 after 6 a.m, I turned over to go sleep. Luckily I didn't take a herbal as i do sometimes as they called at almost 6:30 a.m. Guess the note was on the wrong door again Had step in washer and only one FT person and a hk helping so I figured I better go. Just hate the fast getting ready although i said I'll be there When i get there Got there at 7:28 a.m to punch in anyway. So I am tired now and soon going to bed I think. Taking my herbal helpers also. Pretty hot and hotter tomorrow and I'm hoping the lady who called in today will turn up tomorrow and the other one so we will have 3 people. Who knows?
So enjoy your evening and sleep good and have a super day tomorrow also Yah
Time for me to do some much needed catch up with you all.....
YAH, glad you enjoyed the comics. Me too, YAH didn't have the technology either. In fact I can remember when School of Nursing was picked by IBM and Microsoft as a testing ground and it sitting in the back office for quite some time. But once the RWJ grant went through and Dean Ford hired the "other Betty" I was the one picked to have to learn how to use it since I was the youngest....wasn't happy then, but was in later years.
Wow no electricity either, I had that from the time I was born. Oh BTW the blueberry cheesecake was and still is absolutely delicious. Yes, that's why we love the angel hair, and spaghetti, as we got 4 meals a piece of out them for a total of 8 out of the box. We add a little of our Ragu to mix them and I add sausage and peppers or sometimes some of my clams. In the freezer then go and presto fresh frozen dinners.
I just loved the dog graphic and the sentiment is so true.
Glad shopping went well on Monday and good luck with the freezer meal workout. Do tell me about this????
OMG Angii, Chuck and Cody would get along quite well on the "don't like it foods front". LOL about Charger yelling at you to get off the phone.
Sorry about the store far away not having Charger's dog food, glad you found I elsewhere.
Hope you didn't get a lot of call in days and HUGS on the heat and humidity, along with the lack of sleep. Loved the friendship graphic.
Dianna, yikes on the rowdy people at the meeting. Glad your post office wasn't effected too badly, but I know so many are closing. We have lost a bunch here also.
As I said to YAH, Dianna, the blueberry cheesecake was very good and nice and light too. Plus loving the very fresh graham cracker crust we made too.
OH no Dianna, so sorry to hear about your hubby's heart racing doing some of the outdoor work and you too, with the knees. I agree, getting older does stink.
I am with you Dianna, Spring and Fall are my favorite times now too. When I was younger I loved Summer but then I did a lot of stuff outside and spent my days at the beach as I loved the water....swimming, body surfing, boating etc.
Yes, Bama, sleep seems to be a "problem" for all of us here some of us more than others.
Sorry about the buyer's market there, Bama, and sending lots of prayers your way for a sale for you.
Definitely Bama, read the last Sisterhood book, you will be smiling!
Barb, hope you got the cleaning you wanted done, done and your hubby to move the camper and clean and organize that too.
I am with you on the pit stops Barb, they wake me up from 1 to sometimes 3 times a night. Plus those nights like Wednesday night when I was up every hour on the hour and the stupid dreams. And I have an autoimmune disease so that doesn't help either or and never mind the times my oxygen comes out of my nose and I wake up gasping....being sick and getting old just plain stinks.
Or I am with you with the snoring and the light and the TV before he goes to sleep. My dream for a room all to myself with darkness and quiet.
Oh I used to sleep the sleep of the dead when I was young Barb and one time sleep 24 hours straight. Nothing woke me up!
Including my mother breaking the back window right next to my bedroom downstairs so she could get into the house. She was banging on the window to my room, she said for over 20 minutes.
Molasses, you might want to check into the hospital pads or pet pads as we used them for our Brandy who couldn't walk on her back legs any longer and was incontinent too. We had to carry her to the pads to go to the bathroom on as she couldn't walk any longer outside. They worked great and much better than waterproof mattress pad.
Angii, I see you found the pet pads are better too. I am with you, they are angels.
My prayers and HUGS to you Molasses, and your DA as well. Hope the doctor can give you some more answers.
Glad you got to go to your son's after work YAH and got some errands done too. Yeah ya should have slet over. I see we share the good hearing gene, YAH. Sorry your missed your DB and SIL. Loved the pic of the sunset.
Hope the time with the kids went well Dianna, and you didn't have any extra food.
HUGS on your hubby Barb and not finishing what he starts...I have one of those too or worse yet doesn't start at all. Yikes on raiding the cash box too. HUGS on the money goes on trees. Enjoy that alone time you have.
Molasses, we share the money stuff, and I am usually the one now that asks what's available as Chuck does it all with bill pay, etc Then we got over it when I do up the budget numbers for the month. Years back we both did the checkbook and paid bills.
As for cash, Chuck has it now but years back, we both had money in our pockets/pocketbooks.
I love the graphic on time being the greatest gift, YAH.
LOL about laptop, YAH as I can't count the number of times, Chuck has asked what did you do now and he fixes it. Some things I can do but others not so much.
Yikes on the call, YAH especially considering she should know better. Glad you finally got some sleep. Bummer on not staying at son's. Glad you got to talk to your sons and the rental sounds great.
Sorry about the Tahoe issues, Angii. I hope they finally get it all fixed right this time.
Glad the family arrive back, Dianna, but wow late for you.
Bama, glad you got the ladder back. Be CAREFUL!
Hope you got the garden stuff done, Angii and yeah racing is always a nicer option.
Awesome pic of lake and lighthouse, YAH. I am with you, I'd love to be in the pic too.
HUGS on the weather the day you have to work.
Glad son is home and hope the reunion goes well this weekend.
Yes I did get my exercise done Thursday night, YAH and yes have had a pretty good Wednesday and Thursday, so the house is done till the bathrooms on Saturday.
Oh Molasses, a boatload of hugs to you with your DA and I hope the meds help her to relax and sleep. My heart goes out to all of you.
Glad GS and DH got the bat house built. Did you think to take a picture? I see your GD got a snipping too this week.
LOL about cleaning being genetic. It is I got it from my mom and grandma. LOL
Well I am all caught up with last week, tomorrow I will do the weekend thread, off to comics and crackers.
Have a nice weekend,
The explanation of why we are cold when men aren't
Good Morning! since I've hardly slept again, dosing on and off until midnight, and then tossing and turning until I got Out of bed at 3 a.m. Don't know what was the matter as I was tired and had my herbal sleep pills to!! Well, just have to make it through and I sure hope the lady who called in yesterday comes in today so there's 3 of us instead of 2 for the weekend. I always am the one who does the most personal rack as it is. I suppose by the time work starts at 6:30 a.m, I could go sleep easily
The moon sure is full and shining though as I went outside for a bit to see the stars No wind at all and quiet. Its suppose to be 80's and very high humidity for the weekend Very nice for those camping out etc. I'm sure and for son's wife's family reunion at the little lake for sure! Never can tell for the weekends.
So, hoping you all enjoy your day and weekend and have a super ME day also!! I am hoping I don't have to work tomorrow but that probably depends on whether the lady is back or not etc. Got to get some more coffee and some breakfast soon to. Yah
Posting by the light of the computer screen, lots of typos.
Hope the med works but that you won't need to use it often, Molasses. Sorry the blood work didn't provide any answers but glad it was good.
Sorry about the lack of sleep and the call ins, YAH. Hope that lady shows up today.
Sounds like a busy weekend, Angii. Have fun. Good luck getting everything ready for next weekend.
Sure hope you can get everything cleared up about the overcharge, Barb. Getting that bill after an entire year is a bit much.
Be careful on the ladder, Alabama. Sorry showings have been slow.
Washing walls and baseboards sounds like fall house cleaning, Sue. Tell me it isn't time for that already.
The animal park was a hit with the family. They been to several big zoos but never where you can get so up close and personal with the animals.
GD just got up so need to go. Have a nice day.
Is anyone else getting pop up ads from Prevention every time you look at the posts?
I just started getting them in the past week.
Family is headed to other our DD's for the day. DD had a band job this afternoon. I will have the house to myself this afternoon. Lucy is busy with towels. I just walked through the house and put things in order. I need to do the floors yet. After that, I have no idea what I'll get into.
DD and SIL still haven't decided if they will be here yet tomorrow. If they are, they are getting leftover turkey dinner. I told DH and DD that it really stinks for make all of that food and not be able to eat it. But in the end I was fine with my veggie salad with some turkey on top. GD commented that gramma was eating healthy. She's my picky eater. She had turkey, corn and an apple. Had no luck getting her to have any cranberry sauce or cranberry salad, stuffing, mashed potatoes, or gravy. I couldn't very well scold her for not eating what the others ate when I didn't. To be honest, her choices were healthier in the long run. I heard that her other gramma couldn't negotiate with her and she only ate hamburgers and chicken nuggets when she stayed there. So maybe she is eating better here even though it is frustrating trying to come up with something she'll eat. Now if I could get my family to understand that stuffing, mashed potatoes and corn is carb overload. I offered other vegetable choices but they wanted corn.
Well, guess it's time to put Ethel to work. Have a nice day.
Yes, I've been getting the annoying popups and you just have to wait for them to go away. This site is going to lose even more people if they keep this up.
Not much going on. Went out last evening for some photography. I felt crummy (hot, humid and a front due in soon so my entire body ached. I'm sure DH got some nice stuff, but I'm not happy with mine. It just hurt too much to get to where I needed to be.
Cloudy today, and I think the rain comes tomorrow night. We need it. I'm going to have to go water anyway, I think. DH is out at the watercross (snowmobile racing on water!). Kind of nice to have the place to myself.
Better go at least switch out the laundry. Have a good weekend.
Good morning, everyone,
Looks like a lovely day here; the temperature is getting up there, but at least the humidity is down.
DA is a little more normal this morning so I think we are going to take a ride later; we'll go pick up the license plates for DH's truck, maybe do some shopping, depending on how she is in the car. At least she'll get out of her chair. This morning she was in bed, but she had her pants down (that was a new one) and was sleeping in a big wet puddle, so it was laundry and shower before I even had a chance to grab a cup of coffee. Once she was clean and breakfasted, she was fine, so I got a workout in anyway. I was tempted to skip the workout, but it really does relieve stress; I always feel so much better afterward.
Dianna, enjoy your afternoon to yourself! I hope you find something fun to do, and not more cleaning. Turkey and a veggie salad sounds like a great dinner, and your GD is getting some good nutrition at your house anyway. I find I have better luck telling myself that I don't WANT something, rather than thinking I can't have it; the latter makes me obsessed with eating some. I'm seeing those darn pop-ups; they've been driving me crazy all week--they don't even have the little corner box where you can easily close them. I meant to ask about them the other day, but my attention span is about 20 seconds long these days.
Crossing my fingers for you that it's not just 2 today, YAH, and that you get a second wind to power through your day.
Thanks for the hugs, Sue. No answers from the doctor, but I guess we'll just keep moving forward one day at a time. (Remember that old Christy Lane song from the late 60s/early 70s? It's on a loop in my head, "one day a time, Lord, one day at a time." ) Glad you had a good sleep the other night! It's amazing what a difference that makes.
Hope you have time to do your dragster work between all your other activities, Angii. Enjoy your Herbalife training today.
Hugs on the bill, Barb. Glad you are out having fun though!
Bama, hope all your outside work didn't leave you headachey.
I'd better get moving here. I need to post my workout on the Cardio board and then get in the shower to wash my stinky self.
Have a great Saturday!
Molasses, here ya go, I loved her too....so had to go look and listen to it...so sharing...
Reminds us of Mr. Bo as he would eat his Special cuts in seconds and be off to play with the cats and see if they were eating too LOL
Oh Stanley can I come too LOL
Well it's been a busy but productive week with changing our computer schedule and getting on line later in the day. Got my workouts in all week, only missed one night time one due to headache and mouth pain. Plus got a yummy blueberry cheesecake made up on Monday, my vacuuming done on Tuesday, along with making up a frittata instead of the omelet Chuck started with. But actually turned out even better as we loved it, much lighter than the oven baked one with less cheese used and with the stove one we can put my kind of stuff on one side and Chuck's on the other. Can't do that in the oven baked one, so have to make up a "his and hers" one. The dreaded vacuum also is all cleaned too. Plus got my hair cut on Wednesday too. After which I got the good dusting in, along with a nice pedicure too, on Thursday. Just won't be doing it again on the floor in the bathroom LOL Will go back to my chair with my table on the side LOL Friday turned out well too with getting my fish cooked up and my walls done while it was cooking....multi-tasking...a wonderful thing LOL The movie we got in on Friday, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit was excellent. Gave the back story to the Jack Ryan movies and books. Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Keira Knightley among others did a marvelous job. I was tired when I lay down, kept yawning but never got to sleep. I lay there till 2 a.m. and finally gave up and went out and got my dusting done I usually do Saturday morning. Then I lay back down again. It was very warm and we had the bedroom fan and the a/c on. Finally got back up and took my Bone medication and went out and read my book. Was gone more than the 30 minutes as I got engrossed so more like an hour and 15 minutes. So refilled my water glass yet again with some ice and water and back to bed to try again, I also took my thyroid pill, so wouldn't have to take it and wait a half hour. Well Chuck stared snoring and after 30 minutes I just gave up. I went into the linen closet, grabbed a sheet and then pulled his recliner forward as he doesn't have anything in back of his, like I do, so I could flatten it out more. Went back to the bedroom, grabbed my pillow, eye mask and water and back to the living room I went. Got my self adjusted and lay there for a while but finally dozed off and woke up about 7:06 a.m. in the morning. I left the chair and sheet, and just grabbed my pillow, made a pit stop and stretched out. The alarm went off, Chuck hit the buzzer and we snoozed more. He didn't do too well either Friday night with having to get up and rinse his mouth 3 times to get the blood out as he had a bleeding gum. So 2 zombies to say the least. I was going to take Buddy out as Chuck's back has been killing him this week but he said he was OK to do it. So I did the bed, dusted and then went outside to do my next inhaler, and get the coffee and tea done, along with getting all the towels and putting up new ones in the kitchen. Then till Chuck came out I lay down in my chair to rest. I did NOT feel well, bloated (all the water, gassy and hot and foggy...lack of sleep does that). Next thing I know Buddy is barking to wake me up and it was time for breakfast. While Chuck and Buddy were otherwise occupied, I did the bathroom in the bedroom and then did the other one. Then I went to check on the towels only to find out I forgot to put them on and also left the top up on the washer for the sheet I used to sleep with so that stopped in mid wash....can't even blame "old age" on these as I have done them before LOL Finally got on line and did my mail and some of my other checks and on line stuff. On tap for Saturday night will be some more Smallville and will do more tomorrow to finish off Season 2, then back to our normal viewing. Chuck is checking the Jag's we got in and we will be sending one season back as it has broken spindles and marks on the strata of all of the disks in the season. Well hope you have a good Saturday, weekend and take some "me time" on Sunday....I know I will be.
I am with you Buckles as I don't like doctors!
I don't think so, Stanley!
Time for me to catch up again....
A busy Friday morning for you Dianna...the wild life park sounds wonderful.
I see you had a busy Friday also Angii and I hope Charger was OK with your meeting a friend LOL Wow your schedule is jammed pack this weekend but it all sounds like fun.
Bama, I see you got a lot of the outside work done Friday. Wow lots of houses for sale on your block but glad yours got so many hits. Yes, the St. Joseph statue has helped many a homeowner. Las Vegas was like that, we went to bed at 1 or 2 a.m. and it was still 100 so when you got up at 8 a.m. it was already 100 again too.
At least here most nights we are in the 70s and we start at 70s, except for those crazy days we have where it's in the 80s at 8 a.m.
Molasses, glad DA's blood work is fine and hope the Risperdal works better this time. Molasses, after an episode with my mother, I'd get on my bike and ride up and down the street or across it to the school area and just let me mind float.
Swimming also helped me in the Summer but we had a pool and since I was the one who took care of it, it was clean LOL I'd get my suit on and swim and then my float and just float away to another plane of existence!
You could try some meditation too since it goes hand in hand with Yoga.
Oh your son is so lucky to see Alaska, as like you I've never been either but always wanted to go. Unrealistic I know but my dreams is for all of our boys to be back home.
I am with you Barb, Summer is flying by. I see you went to Target and Menards too. Plus had a wonderful time with friends and some good music too.
Oh Barb I would be fit to be tied too. We had a PayPal customer order reversed after a year and a half by Amazon with no explanation, so we did the same researched and sure enough it was wrong and reversed when we sent all the paperwork. Good luck. At least you and I are organized and paranoid enough to hold on to things LOL
Thanks YAH yes I will be relaxing on my "me day" for sure.
Sorry about the late call in and I am with you, YAH, I hate having to rush. Hope you slept well and you aren't short at work.
Oh YAH I just love the cat and doggie start to the day.
I see you and I both didn't sleep last night. I, at least, don't have your hard job....HUGS HUGS and more HUGS with a boatload of strength too.
Yeah it's a super moon, YAH, ours was awesome too as I took Buddy out again at 11:30 p.m. last night.
Dianna, sorry to say it's around the corner, but no haven't started yet.
I have to do baseboards and walls periodically as with Buddy the shaker who drinks and shakes well you get the idea so I spot clean them and then wash the hallway and doors in it every couple of months too as he will sometimes get an itch and rub against the wall...it is a hoot to watch. I try to scratch it for him but he goes to the wall, rubs and then looks at me to say...."it works better than your nails and hands do".
I can't wait to check out the park, Dianna.
Yes, Dianna, I am getting the stupid pop up ads too, so infuriating. I just refresh and they go away. I see you are "home alone" Dianna. Sit back, grab some of those mags and catalogs I know you have hanging around and take a look at those with some nice oldies radio station on.
Oh Dianna, your salad sounds yummy.
Barb, hit the refresh key and the ads will go away. Or open this site in a new window and click over to something else and hit the back key.
I am with you on losing people as today no one seems to have much patience. Mind you every other site I go to does the same thing.
Sorry about feeling so bad last night, must have been in the air as I wasn't doing much better.
Oh I see you have watercross racing there too, popular in upstate NY in the summer also.
Molasses glad DA was doing somewhat better and doing some extra prayers for you and DA.
I love that Cristy Lane song, in fact I had to go listen to it....so got the link from You Tube and posted it for you and the others who are interested.
Well I am all caught up again and off to comics, and then crackers and a much needed nap.
Good Evening all. So far, still up Got a reboot I guess Was a warm day and lady called in again so only 2 of us I am betting on her being there tomorrow as she would have to have a Dr's note otherwise so I'm hoping no call in as it will be another hot day. Very nice for reunion's by the lake though for my son's family I was going to nap at son's house but, didn't, took a shower instead, watched a movie, and then decided to at least park and watch the long line of cars at 7 p.m start off for Buzz the Gut, which I forgot almost was tonight. We called it cruising but earlier on they called it that when the guys would go around the blocks in town as teens A Wide assortment of cars, trucks etc. from 1920's even, all the way to 1990's Love seeing the 50's and 60's and 70's Sue, you would have loved the corvette's to!! Saw some people I know but by the time I realize it, they've gone by! Then, I came home. Probably should have slept over there or gone Marq. to son's but, wasn't really ready for that. Would love to see the moon coming up over the lake So I feel a bit like twilight zone here so not catching up at all much tonight
Di, hope you get to relax and enjoy your time alone Sounds like your GD got the right idea of good food though. How did the cat do? And Molly?
Mo, lots of hugs and good vibes for your DA to be ok now and you to get to relax or work at outside stuff to although sounds a bit hot there also. My older sis just went to Alaska and she has taken a train another time through it. I never get to see the pic's though Kind of glad your DS didn't have to go overseas right now though.
Sue, Love that song to and I should start playing it for a theme song for me!! One day at A Time is what its all about I think and I sure did like it and have forgotten it. Thanks for the reminder also I know I have an old cassette tape of her songs which I liked also. Sure hope you get some sleep also as it sure brings one down with No sleep! And I had helpers but they didn't help either! Lets try to have a great ME day hey? Everyone enjoy it to the max! Hi to Angii, Barb, and Bama also and do try to enjoy the rest of the weekend Night all, Yah
Well this is a first, but then again.... it's 2:50 a.m. here, but I am up again all night....after I post will try and go to sleep again....GRRRR
Have a good Sunday,
Good morning,
I was here earlier but lost my post due to the stupid pop up ads. I hit refresh and it came up without the post. Then I tried again and Molly started on one of her if you are on the computer I am going to bark fits so I closed the page since I had just begun typing it again. So hope this attempt goes better.
I've been up for a couple of hours. Don't sleep soundly when people are here. I hear every little sound. SIL doesn't go to bed until 1 or 2 in the morning and then gets up almost hourly for a pit stop. Then I lay there and hear the Gkids turning over in their sleep. Guess I still have "mom ears" after all of these years. I got up at 4:30, made up a turkey platter for DH and packed up the rest of the turkey dinner leftovers for the family to take along home. DD called me from her sister's last night to stay that they will be leaving to go home this morning and she'd like to take the leftovers along so they don't have to get groceries after they get home this evening. So that gets the leftovers out of the house and DD won't need to cook tonight.
Didn't do anything exciting with my free afternoon, cleaned the house, did laundry, washed dog nose prints off the storm door windows, edited the pictures of the bat house construction, and watched a movie. Not a great one but it was all that I could find. Considered mowing grass or weeding but as DH was leaving he told me to let it go until Monday since the temps will be about the same but not as sunny. I didn't really feel like doing it anyway.
Well better get DH awake so he can get in and out of his bathroom. The toilet in the main bath broke after SIL's 4:30 pit stop and DH's bathroom will be in demand when people get up and moving. Nothing serious with the main bath. The piece of plastic that connects the flapper to the handle broke, that is all. I just don't have another one at the moment and I don't see people wanting reach in the tank to lift the flapper so they can flush.
I'm off to try and get people moving. DD wants to get on the rode by 10 and DH needs to be at church a little after 9. I am skipping Sunday School and church this morning to help DD get loaded and on the road. SIL tends not to help her much. He either gets lost in the Sunday paper or sleeps.
Have a good day all.
Good morning, all,
Just a quick post before I go get DA up and into dry clothes.
It's a nice cool morning here--I should have gone out to weed first thing instead of puttering around with laundry, litterboxes, etc. as it will be heating up soon, I'm sure. Still the promise of fall is in the air this morning!
DA was great on our outing yesterday; DH got his license plates and I got a new swimsuit at Ross, just in case we can get to the beach one day before summer is over. Not much selection for suits, but the prices were right.
Sue, I meant to mention that Chuck may want to check into oil-pulling--it may help his gums. I know it did wonders for mine and DH's. Sending hugs on you being up all night, and hope you eventually got some sleep. Thanks for the prayers, and the Cristy Lane song. She has such a pretty voice--sounds much better than my version!
Dianna, I hope you'll be able to catch up on your sleep once your company leaves. We are sure a sleep-deprived group lately, and I've read that that's almost as bad for our health as smoking.
Sorry about the rough day at work, YAH, but glad you got to see some of the Buzz the Gut. Would be interesting to know how that name evolved! Sure hope you don't get a call-in today.
Wishing everyone a lovely Sunday; I'll probably be back later, but need to get moving here.
Good Morning and Happy Sunday everyone ,
Just popping in as I am always so busy in the mornings and this was was busier than most . I did my workout which was Yoga this am and I struggled a little but I think I like it . Then the usual getting fluffed and had to go to the Store . Back home put a Roast in the oven in a cooking bag (new to me ) so anxious to see how it turns out . Carrots , onions and red potatoes in there with it. Usually I cook them in my electric skillet BUT I can't find my it . I do have one in Ohio but I thought I had one here also but poof it is gone . Is this Old AGE creeping up on me or what!!! Then I vacuumed the kitchen floor it shows everything being while . After and early Lunch/Dinner I will do the kitchen and the day will be mine!!!!!
Ok I have read all the posts so if I miss anyone or anything just remember that Old AGE creeping up .
Di, I hope you enjoyed your family . I always enjoy mine BUT am always glad when they go home and the house is mine again. Your GD sounds like she is going the right way with her choice of foods. If they learn young that is good.
Angii anxious to hear about your Frozen food meeting. It is where you make up all these meals and place in bags and then all you have to do is drop in Crockpot or something similar to that . I know Pinterest has a lot of those recipes on it. That is such a great site . If any of you have never been on it . Check it out so much of everything.
Mo, My BIL was stationed in Alaska and loved it there . He said such beautiful country and he brought back Black Diamonds which they had put in earrings for his Mother . This is just what I can remember from memory as this was along time ago. I know you have your hands full with your Aunt but you will be blessed for it .
Yah, hope you don't get called in today and I bet that was really interesting to watch all those old cars . I love the old ones. We had a 67 Mustang when we moved here and enjoyed it but finally decided to sell it . There use to be a show on either History or Learning state where they would surprised someone by fixing up there old beat up car and a lot of them were the Oldies. I thing they cancelled it .
Sue, Thanks for the memories of Christy Lane . I like her also and especially that song. So sorry you aren't sleeping well as a few of us are in that same boat . I have just gotten use to it . I never get over 6 hours only if I am sick.
I see you were up and on line this am . Well I was up also at 2 30 but went back to sleep and had the weirdest dream. Strange very strange .
Barb, Sounds like you spent some time with some friends and had a nice time . I get the impression that your town is like Cabot Cove /Cedar Cove > If it is how great is that .
and the nerve of that Moving Company .
Well I am all talked out for now . Looks like a hot day again . We did have 10 minutes of a down pour yesterday so everything got a drink . Hoping a little cooler .
I really did a dumb thing at my garage sale . I sold our electric trimmer !!!!!!! Now we have to borrow someone's to do our shrubs. I can't believe I did that.
Morning ladies
I had another "no night" of much sleep last night, so foggy eyed and tired again. Glad it's a "me day".
Well off to put the sheets into Lucy, rinse out my milk glass and have breakfast. Will post responses later.
Have a wonderful Sunday,
Morning ladies. Not much going on here. We were going to go out last night (to celebrate my birthday since we are racing next weekend) but after my herbalife training. which was awesome, and DH working in the garage all day, we were both exhausted. I even tried taking a nap, and after I cut DH hair, he said, that he wasn't feeling it and I looked at him and said I was so glad he said that! So we stayed in and watched the first Avenger's movie. It was good.
And I found out this morning that one of my racing girls is going to come visit us in a few weeks. She is coming up labor day weekend so it will be nice to have her here. So now I have a dead line to get my house back in order. I will start making good will trips this week.
I will try and catch up later,,, I need to get busy with DH this morning.
Good day all! Wanted to see if the pic of the albino mom and her fawn would come in It did and I did post on FB but loved it so much so had to put it on here also
My cell phone said No service until my son fixed it. I probably could have put it Off and then on again, maybe it might have worked but forget about that. He took card out and put it back in. Dh's was working but not mine but people could call me anyway, and so glad no one else called in this morning. Got a few good hrs. of sleep at least and then up and down but feel better anyway. I am a Light sleeper also Di, and hear Dh always it seems and he doesn't put his hearing aid on until later so he doesn't hear himself I guess Sounds like a lovely bunch of food for your DD to take home
Bama, maybe some just saw it in your garage and when your busy, you didn't notice they had it and sold it? the clippers? I have a hard time knowing what I got in one house, couldn't handle 2 houses! Maybe a tiny apt. for a pad but not anything much in it to remember I'd be out of it mostly!
Well its up to 80's today and maybe rain tomorrow to cool down. Wish I would have gone on deck to watch moon for a while since it was warm outside and its not like that usually. Was quite sure no call in but I went sleep. Son called this morning and I was till in bed, had been up for some time but reading and loafing, and he and DIl were on their way to Marq. from CF's. So we got to see the gkids for about an hr. as son has to get going to Lansing today soon also. They had been over garage mostly and I know how I can't get a word in with Dh there so I just saw them for a while over here after but did not want to make them any later as I don't like son traveling to late at night. they are growing up for sure!
Mo, the Buzz the Gut comes from maybe even later, 1020's or 30's, as going around the block for guys looking at girls We did that also but just called it cruising around the block I guess Hope Da does well today and glad you got out for a ride yesterday!
Bama, my Dh had a red/orange 67 brand new Mustang also when I met him! But we had it and then had to give it up when the mine's close in the Copper Country We got an old Chevy and made our way to Detroit then. It was only $3000 brand new but could not ever afford it then! i saw some of them at the car show also Sounds like a Yummy dinner coming up there!
Sue, I feel so bad for you with no sleep! Hugs!!!! I know I feel like that so much and its hard to even get on with each day and even talk to people when I'm really bad. Don't know why but not going to Drs. as to much money. Hope you got some more in by now. If I was home, I would go back to sleep for sure when that happens but couldn't. Enjoy your ME day and take of yourself.
Barb, hope you are enjoying the summer happenings as winter time is long If i was closer to town, I sure would be enjoying any time a lot!
Angii, hoping you enjoy your ME day also and great on the visit coming up to
Well, better get my work clothes washed and hoping my new shirts for work come in soon also as they seem to wear out so quick as their made wherever! Wish I could sew and make them. Beautiful beach weather but not going and fry out there and don't like any except for the big lake which is to far for now. Getting some clouds out there but not suppose to rain today. Have a super ME day everyone!! Yah
Cherry Blossom Sue here,
Well I got some sleep but not a lot, my guess is about 3.5 hours, if that. Hubby was up for a bit too, but then the snoring started so I was outta there and did my catch up and then tried to sleep and eventually did. I was so itchy, after my 9:15 p.m. allergy pill, I took another one. Then after I got offline before trying to go to sleep again, I took my thyroid pill so I didn't have to in the a.m.
YAH glad you got a reboot but sorry only 2 workers. Hope no call in for today. Glad the reunion by the lake for your son's family went well. Glad you got a shower in at son's house and relaxed with a movie and oh I wish I was there for the Buzz the Gut. Oh you are so right, YAH, I would have been in heaven. I wish you had stayed there too, as I know how much you love it.
Oh YAH, you should be thanking Molasses, for reminding us all of a great lady and song. I agree a great theme song for us.
Yes, I had a cassette for her songs too and my parents had an album. But that one they didn't give me, just all the Elvis ones, who turned 79 this year, hard to believe this coming Saturday it will be 37 years when we lost him.
Hope your "me day" is going well, my is considering the lack of sleep again Saturday night.
Oh Dianna, I always CTRL A then C so I have a copy of the post before I submit it, as this way I don't have to go back through it again to get the returns in, which I hate.
Oh Dianna, I am with you on the sounds and plus I hate light, any little bit bothers me. Sorry about the movie and I am with you on the doggie nose prints off the windows LOL Oh are you going to share the bat house pics?
That happens to the bowl in the bedroom that one is constantly doing stuff. In fact thanks for reminding me, as I have to call the office to remind Martine he wanted to come back and take the toilet out to check the roots.
I will have to go check on oil-pulling as mine aren't the best either. Thanks for the hugs and yes I hope I sleep tonight. Your welcome on the song. I am sure you sound fine.
I see a busy morning for you Bama. The ladies on my other board cooked the roast and veggies in a bag and loved it. Good luck.
Did you maybe sell the electric skillet in the garage sale?
Your welcome on the song and yeah I hate it when I don't sleep and especially 2 days in a row. Me too on the dreams this week.
Oh Bama, great minds think alike....as when Barb describes her small town I think of Cabot Cove too. Speaking of which time to take Jessica's show out to watch again next week.
Oh Bama, sorry on the electric trimmer, this is why I mentioned the skillet. Hope not and you find it.
Angii, back in the day, Chuck and I had days like that. Oh we love the Avenger's movie too.
Enjoy your visit with you friend on Labor Day LOL about deadline to get house back in order.
Loved the pic of the albino mom and her fawn. Glad your son fixed your phone and you got a few hours sleep. Oh once I am asleep I am out but it needs to be quiet for me to sleep.
Glad you got to see the gkids for a while.
Yeah us too YAH and called it cruising.
Thanks for the hugs. Hope you had a good day.
Well I am now off to some games before comics and crackers.
Buddy actually ate his breakfast this a.m., and then checked out his pancake.
No cutting of Chuck's hair as we were running very late due to my lazy butt taking a while to get up and hubby setting the alarm later. Hey it's Sunday.
However, now all bathed, creamed, and all the other stuff done. Still itchy today so did take an allergy pill after I finished drying my hair.
Still itchy and seems Buddy is too. Some of it is the darn a/c coming on so much, but it is HOT outside.
Our oldies station did good today as I got to hear Soldier Boy, followed by Johnny Angel and Worst That Could Happen....so I was singing up a storm LOL
Chuck is watching America's Test Kitchen video's so off to play some games as it's hard to concentrate. He did ask if he should put the headphones on but I know they bother him. So told him, it's fine but driving me nuts.
Little things....so will let it go.
Hope you had a nice Sunday and got to take some "me time".
Well at least it feels a bit cooler and no wind at all so bugs are out a bit though. Was sitting on deck before and ate my salad out there. Dh is over N.N. as he was home and said his DD is again off the tubes etc. at hospital and they are waiting to find out anything more from the biopsy and camera in her lungs. Her DB and his gf were visiting more this weekend i guess.
Sue, yep, i should email you a pic of all the cars in a parking lot at the Buzz the Gut also. Sure a lot for this small town! Love this time of year as old cars are out now before winter I guess Maybe next year I'll try to ride in the back of one as I know a few of the folks who have older cars Glad you got some sleep and had a nice ME day also. 3 hrs. is about all I ever get if I get it in one stretch. Then its on and off so no Good sleep I guess
Jade is watching the mourning dove on the deck eating some seeds. I think 2 of them come usually and sometimes just sit there cleaning their feathers and resting The chipmunks are done for the night I think.
Love those old songs! I know I went out a few times with a Johnny when that song was popular to I have it on my old 45's also.
Love to be in the picture I posted also. Its about 70 here at 9 p.m but feels better at least. Going to be watching for that moon of course and it has to climb over a tall pine tree out there before i can see it here I imagine people by the Lake will be out there tonight I hope my son is half way to Lansing by now to but never know with him. He didn't want to get there real late but its hard to leave the family I'm sure.
Well hoping you all have a very great night and a good restful sleep to! Lets hope no call in's yet tomorrow as Tues. is close enough and always the Big day Yah
The freezer meal workshop was great! I have 10 freezer meals, in my freezer, and 5 are for the crock pot, and 5 are for the grill. I am excited. It took a couple of hours, and it and it was fun to chat with a bunch of other people.
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Die Walküre : Work information
- Composers
- (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Vernon Handley (Conductor)
This work
- Work name
- Die Walküre
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- Genre
- Composed
- 1856-01-01 02:00:00
This recording
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- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Producer
- Alan Peters
- Engineer
- Floating Earth
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The Composers
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner
Wagner wrote operas on a vast scale telling tales of tragic love and epic stories of battles between the gods. With wars, a revolution and a scandalous love affair, his own life saw its fair share of turmoil too, and not necessarily on a smaller scale.
There is some doubt as to exactly who Wagner's father was. Officially, his father was Friedrich Wagner, a police actuary who died soon after his son's birth. In August 1814, though, Wagner's mother married her friend Ludwig Geyer, an actor, poet and painter, and there is speculation that he was actually Richard Wagner's father.
Regardless of this question over his parentage, the young Wagner went to school in Dresden and then Leipzig. His first creation was not musical, but a play, which he wrote when he was 15. The next year he started to write music. In 1831 he went to Leipzig University, also studying music with the Thomaskantor C. T. Weinlig, and in 1832 he wrote a symphony, which was also performed.
At the age of 20, in 1833, Wagner became the Chorus Master at the Würzburg theatre and wrote his first opera, Die Feen. It wasn't performed, but his next opera (written in the same year), Das Liebesverbot, was staged in 1836.
Wagner made his début as an opera conductor with a small company which went bankrupt soon after performing his opera. Despite this failure, he married the singer Minna Planer in 1836 and moved with her to Königsberg where he became Musical Director at the theatre. He soon left and took a similar post in Riga where he began his next opera, Rienzi. In Riga, he did a lot of conducting, especially of Beethoven. However, Wagner's financial situation was bad, and when creditors demanded their money in 1839, he and his wife escaped by boat to London and then to Paris. Here he worked for publishers and theatres, and continued to write. In 1842, Rienzi was performed in Dresden, and was a great success. Wagner was appointed joint Kapellmeister at the Dresden court, and in 1845 Tannhäuser was performed, and Lohengrin started.
In 1849, Wagner fled revolutionary Paris and went to Weimar, where he was helped by the composer Franz Liszt. He was very anti-Semitic and spent time in France and Switzerland, as he was unable to enter Germany for 11 years. He began sketching the text and music of a series of operas on the Nordic and Germanic sagas - The Nibelung's Ring. Among the friends to whom Wagner showed the operas was a rich patron named Otto Wesendonck. Wesendonck's wife Mathilde, who loved him, wrote poems that he set, and inspired Tristan und Isolde (written between 1857 and 1859).
In 1855 he conducted in London, and by 1860 was in Paris, where his views made him unpopular. In 1862 he returned to Germany, and separated from his wife Minna, who was ill. Wagner gave concerts all over Europe, and in 1864 King Ludwig II invited him to settle in Bavaria, near Munich. The King settled Wagner's debts and provided him with an income.
In the later part of his career Wagner enjoyed the support of King Ludwig II. There was some scandal at the court when it became known that Wagner was having an affair with Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima, who was married to the conductor Hans von Bülow. However, Bülow didn't seem to mind, and conducted several of Wagner's operas, including the premiere of Tristan und Isolde in 1865. In 1868, Cosima moved in with Wagner at his home in Tribschen, near Lucerne, and by the time they got married in 1870, they had two children. By 1876, Wagner was finally able to establish his own theatre and festival at the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, and it was there that The Ring was premiered. The performance of this 18-hour epic was an artistic success, but a financial disaster.
In order to try and earn some money, Wagner spent the next few years conducting in London and throughout Italy, as well as writing more operas. In Venice, Wagner experienced a worsening of the heart trouble he had suffered from for some years, and he died there in February 1883. His body was returned to Bayreuth to be buried.
Wagner's influence on harmony, large scale works, and opera in particular is considerable. He developed the use of the Leitmotiv (leading motif). He was a remarkable innovator both in harmony and in the structure of his work. It can be said that his Prelude to the love tragedy Tristan und Isolde led to a new world of harmony. Wagner was a remarkable innovator both in harmony and in the structure of his work. He created his own version of the Gesamtkunstwerk, a type of dramatic composition in which all the arts (music, poetry, the visual arts, dance etc.) were brought together into a single unity. His political ideas sometimes overshadow his real significance as a composer.
Related Composers: Liszt, Weber, Franck, Humperdinck, Korngold, R Strauss
Die Walküre is the second of the four operas that make up Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner had originally started work on what was to become the final opera, Gotterdämerung, in 1850 but soon realised the plot required three preceding operas to make the story intelligible. Die Walküre was begun on 28 June 1854 and, though work was hampered by Wagner's illness, finished on 20 March 1856.
The Valkyries of the title are Brünhilde, the favoured daughter of the god Wotan, and her sisters. Robbed of her divinity at the end of Die Walküre for helping Siegmund and betraying Wotan, Brünhilde is eventually rescued in the next opera by Siegfried, the son of Siegmund.
The famous Ride of the Valkyries is heard at the beginning of Act III, the Valkyries returning to Valhalla, the fortress of the gods, uttering their war cry 'Hojotoho!'.


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Happy Fathers Day to you and me and everyone we know
Off-Base June 20th, 2010
Casey McGehee is a dad.
During the fifth inning of a Milwaukee Brewers game last week Casey McGehee used "C is for Cookie" by the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street as his at-bat music. Nobody seems to know why this is, but one could imagine. For one, it's kind of funny. He laughed. For another, his three year old son Mack was probably at the game and that is the kind of thing that would make a three year old really happy. Playing baseball is hard and takes a ton of work, but making sure his son is happy is something that comes natural to a dad like Casey McGehee.
Mack was born with cerebal palsy and brain damage, a premy that never quite fully recovered from it. I'll never forget the game I went to last summer where Mack threw out the first pitch. It was a pretty emotional moment and a drunk Miller Park Drunk in section 127 may have got some dust in his eye thinking about it at the time. That same drunk person found it completely unbelievable that on a day when his son threw out the first pitch that Casey McGehee would be sitting on the bench. It just didn't make sense, fire Ken Macha! Until the sixth inning when Casey hit a pinch-hit go-ahead homerun. Mack was still in the ballpark and got to hear the 39,890 people in attendance cheer their hearts out for his dad. That made sense. Read the rest of this entry »


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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Central Park Fireworks and NYRR Midnight Run
at Naumburg Bandshell (in Central Park), Manhattan
10:00 p.m.
Countdown the celebration with live music, dancing, fireworks and a costume parade and contest. The 4-mile run begins at midnight.
Category: New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve Fireworks in Prospect Park
at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
11:00 p.m.
Start the celebrations off around 11 p.m. with entertainment and hot refreshments at Grand Army Plaza.
Category: Festivals, Kids, New Year's Eve
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Mad. Sq. Art 2013: Giuseppe Penone: "Ideas of Stone (Idee di pietra)"
at Oval Lawn (in Madison Square Park), Manhattan
6:00 a.m.
Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art announces a new sculptural installation for fall 2013 by renowned Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, consisting of three monumental, 30-foot tall bronze trees. "Ideas of Stone (Idee di pietra)" featuring Penone's signature manipulation of the trees' natural forms, will interact with Madison Square Park's lush landscape to highlight the relationships amongst man, sculpture and nature.
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Art in the Garden: "Deconstructed Flowers"
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
H. David Stein's unique mosaic of flora is distinctively detailed in his exhibit "Deconstructed Flowers." His intricate photographs pull out the dimensional…
Category: Nature, Art
Whimsical Winter Wonderland exhibit
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
These American and international artists' works will charm and delight the spirit of the child or the child within.
Category: Art, Winter Holidays
Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden
at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Within the enchanting setting of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, large-scale model travel over bridges and past replicas of New York landmarks made of plant parts.
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at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
10:00 a.m.
A look at Scottish landscape design and land art.
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Bryant Park Holiday Market
at Bryant Park, Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Featuring more than 125 boutique-style shops in the park's tree-lined allées, the Holiday Shops complete the park's transformation into a winter wonderland. From…
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12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Come to McDonald Playground for this free fitness interval & strength training class. Shaping up has never been this easy!
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Discover Evergreens at Parks with Julia Attaway
at Heather Garden (in Fort Tryon Park), Manhattan
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
This workshop is best for kids ages 4-7, and will explore the green trees in the park and question why they stay green in the winter.
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Join the Merit School of Music as it honors John Hart and Carol Prins for their contributions to the arts at its annual gala. Students of the Merit School will provide entertainment, showcasing the music curriculum. $500. www.meritmusic.org


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