Sunday, August 14: A Day at the Gallery and Phila Magic Gardens

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Greetings brave warriors of the heat. Today is another hot day in mid August 2016. Part of the weekend heat wave. The 2 hottest days of the year. I got up around 830 and decided to skip the

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clubhouse and then just ease out of the house. I was greeted by a tweet about the gallery and one of my

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paintings and then a Facebook post about it a couple minutes later that made me very please so I

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alerted anybody who knew my name about it. It was pretty exciting. I did a little bit blogging and ate

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some breakfast. I cleaned dishes for Sharon. He's not feeling so great last night and this morning.

Another HOT Day!

I then headed out toward South Philly to that da Vinci or no I am for my gallery sitting shift started at

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1 PM. I was heading towards the rally café which is about a block away from the gallery. Callan met

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me there and we talked and I charge my phone and got some decaf Americano. We were chatting

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away and it was pointed out to me that it was 12:55 PM so it's time to leave the coffee shop. Well I

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came in to the gallery and figured out how to turn on all the lights and the two freestanding air-conditioners

Meeting a Friend @ Rally

that were in the building he walked around and checked out the the paintings and seem

Hell Yes! It's Hot!!

to like them. I didn't try to just catch up on my previous days blog and then folks came in. To the women

Panoramic View of the Gallery

were friends of one of the artist I think one was married to one of the artist. The one with Mary to the

"Second Language" at Da Vinci Art Allience

Talking with a Muse

you other people came in for the total people wander Denver to about seven and I did mark that

Philadelphia Magic Gardens

down on the sheet. The dude that was due at 3 o'clock came right on time and we decided we go to the Philadelphia  Magic Gardens. It's on South Street near 9th. They

Philadelphia Magic Gardens

have a whole system set up to be admitted. It would and I'll hit mission for each of us

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and it was really cool I got some decent pictures and saw my first  gender neutral bathroom in person

Dinner

it was pink or a mauve  colored sign. Next went to West Philly to eat some Indian buffet. It had

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been a while since I've done that. It was pretty tasty. After that she drove me home to get myself

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ready. I talked to Sharon and I was glad I went back home to talk to her she was not feeling great. Then

I Made Coffee

I went back to the Trinity and made my first coffee for a group.

Sunday: Let's go to the Zoo!!

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Umm. Indian

Today is Sunday. it's starting off as a foggy morning which is actually kind of relief if you ask me. Well went to the meeting with Mike open mutual  and then I will meet Laura to attend the Philadelphia Zoo. I met Laura at 30th St. around 2:11 but right now

Going to an eventful meeting

I'm  got something to eat and watch as the sun is breaking though over the clouds. Well Mike and I took  the 21 bus and decided we have some Indian buffet so now

The 21 Approches

I can walk around and not get hungry for a long time. Next we are- going to go shopping get little odds and ends like toilet paper in the dishwashing detergent and then get a portable charger the Radio Shack.The portable charger that little bulkier but got it half-price!! I was  a little late to 30th St. to meet Laura but she was chill!! it's getting hot again

With a Turtle Friend Well went to the zoo I swear it was  the first time in the zoo in  40 years at least. It wasn't bad at all. I found it was better  than I expected considering the location. We saw you know the reptile house is pretty nice. The apes section was not bad we Ketelby the gorilla was not happy in this location. http://bit.ly/GI2LjD

Overall the zoo was a pleasant diversion something completely

different. I've not done taking anybody to the zoo before. The weather was a bit odd it was sunny and hot and then a nice stiff breeze came in giving the impression along with the gray clouds that we were going to get rain. Turns out I found a couple drops but no rain actually fell. I signed up being a member

Snoozing at the Zoo

of the Philadelphia zoo. I get the bring a guest a couple times during the year and I got a membership card. It's pretty nice looking. I got some pretty good pictures I believe. After we left the zoo we walked down 34th St. Laura and I walked the whole way down 34th St. until market Street where we caught the

EL to 46th Street. We are decided that we wanted to watch the Woody Allen movie Zelig about an hour beforehand. It was on YouTube so we could watch it the whole movie. That's a really funny movie one

Special Effects

of my favorite parts is when Woody Allen character is with his girlfriend and he has a hose to rinse off the car they were washing. He is holding it it is flaccid.  I just cracked up! I really enjoyed this movie and I can't believe I didn't watch it before. I was glad my place didn't look too much like a pigsty. The futon folded

It's MY Ball!!

up as the couch was very comfortable. 

Cool Bird

We then caught the EL down to 30th St. Next we found out that the next train to Malvern where she was going didn't leave for an hour and 15 minutes so we set off to find

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someplace to grab a quick bite. Well on Sunday night in Philadelphia that turned out to be a little more difficult than expected. The a.m. p.m. on 22nd Walnut was the closest place to grab a quick bite besides this one bar that was open. I got two bananas and she got A bag of nuts. We had a good conversation and I left her off at the train then apparently I'm going to walk home. I got home late but it was a good time!

Sunday, September 2

 I got up early to feed myself and the dog. It was dreary foggy humid outside. With

all the detours I just figured I'd walk from 24th and Fairmount the 20th and Walnut which I did I was only a couple minutes late and got there around  718 am. Topic

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with service. Afterwords I hung out with some folk and then man drove me back to West Philly and we talked about our past lives. We related well on certain

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personality disorders since we were very close to people that had them. It was an enjoyable ride but when I got back to my place I realized I did not have the keys. Oy Vey!! I then took the 21 to 22ndand walked   the rest of the way back to 24th & Fairmount. I did my dog duties I've I then showered and shaved and waited to be picked up to go to the Barnes

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foundation. It was a pretty impressive building that's for sure. in fact The architecture of the building dwarfed the amount of

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paintings.  The paintings were arranged the way that were when the Barnes was in Merion. They use the

The Gallery Entrence

same burlap style wall covering to display the work so it did look somewhat the same. They gave  iTunes with earphones  to give background on selected paintings. Geri and I had a very nice time. I suggested Indian Buffet in West Philly.

Entrence to the Barnes Foundation

She liked the idea and we both enjoyed the food. I showed her Dana Mandi. Its the little Indian store near the Kabobbish  We went back to my place (glad I got it cleaned). She sampled my guava, oj, and seltzer juice mix. She approved and all went nicely.

The next thing that I did was to get some of my laundry completed. I then went to the Pats and we did some work on a video of Pat playing guitar. Pat was pretty pleased with the final result.