Sunday September 4: Lawrenceville NJ and Grounds for Sculpture

I had the worst headache ever last night!!😡😡It kept  me up for 5 hours   Io get Meg to rub my neck for 25 min and  take 2 large Tylenol!! I've never had a headache that drove me to tears in my entire life.

Leaving 

Hitting I-95

It's all Center around my neck and shoulders mostly. Anyhow I return the rental car back to 30th St.

Interesting Book  

and then we drove up to Lawrenceville New Jersey and it was a nice Quiktrip right up I-95. Once we

Tasty Lunch

got there we we got a tour of her sisters condo and the condo pool and that kind of thing. We got to

Grounds for Sculpture

replace and I got a nice heating pad on my neck and took some aspirin. Very nice here. I thought

One of the Several Galleries

we can stay till five but we actually stayed in the area of Lawrenceville till about 4:15 PM. then I have to

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be back for the 60 minute  meeting. I did find a speaker for tonight and next Sunday. I'm now

Inside a Gallery

working on the 3rd and 4th Sunday of this month of September. 

Anyhow we all decided that we would go for the grounds for sculpture. Make sister and husband live about 15 minutes

A Grounds

Peacock

away from it so it worked very well logistically. The parking lot was full so we parked a little bit before

 

the official entrance. The sister and husband date for our commission to the place. A lot of change

Lady of the Lake

since I last went there in 2006. Back then I went with the RRCA and it wasn't nearly as built up as it is now.

Meg and I

I didn't remember much of it until we got to the lady in the lake section of the grounds for sculpture

Interesting

there were at least one or two new building. Admission price was nonexistent as far as I

Funky

remembered

 Well, actually today was nicer outside. There are less clouds and it was a nice breeze. I did keep my headache at bay but it was lurking in the background throughout most of

the day. Without it

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we would go swimming and we headed back into town. We took a tour of where Meg lived when

she was a youngster. It was very nice and waited well we went back to Meg's place and hung out for a

Hollywood

little while. Then I throw it on down cricket Avenue to catch the train back. While I was waiting I

Corner Bakery

decided I want to dinner before my meeting. So I went to a place called nap when you can design

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your own pizza. Get a little pan pizza but it's OK 22nd but if there anybody who didn't.

Saturday, September 3: Road Trip to Coatesville. Hanging with Gwynne and Pat

Well, I woke up at 7 AM and we still blocked it so I decided I would sleep in till 8am. That was a good

Cosi at 30th Street Station

move if I fall a lot better. I was texting Meg back-and-forth and I to team up on my had to take a

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short road trip somewhere. So I showered shaved and got a Rent-A-Car.

I went to Expedia and

The Rental

reserved at 30th St. station. That was convenient because it's close to happy place and easy to get to West Philly from there. Well I decided at the

Ardmore

last minute on the holiday weekend, I got

EnteringCoatesville

myself a Nissan rogue. It's kind of a big car. It's great on the road and stuff but it's hard to park in

Road Trip

tight spots. Well I managed to get the car over to Meg's house and cricket road and found a parking space pretty early. We chilled out and drop repaired and then we

Riding the Lincoln Hwy

 headed out on Lancaster Avenue.

The Bell Tower

I decided taking route 30 a.k.a. the old Lincoln Highway as far as I felt like taking it. Well I ended up

Fuel Cafe in Coatesville

going towards Gap Pa and then turned around and decided to check out Coatesville. It had

Posing at the Cafe

some really nice cool buildings and I had some nice hills. This made it very attractive for me to

2nd Hand Store

photograph. We decided to park and stroll around downtown Coatesville. There we went to

Coatesville

a secondhand shop and enjoyed browsing around looking at what they had to offer. The proprietor

Heading Back Home

 was very pleasant and nice. We then found out that the same people also owned coffee shop

Ardmore

right next door called Fuel. We had a coffeecake and I had a coffee and we hung out and listen to

Cool Clouds

the proprietor talk to folks about I'll Coatesville is getting a little bit better. It was very pleasant.

West Philly

Afterwords we headed back towards Philadelphia and Ardmore. We took a pit stop back at her place

Sunset

and unwound and relaxed. Next we went to West Philadelphia to meet up with Pat and Gwynne around 7:15 PM.

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We hung out at Pat Witt and then we went to the Patiya Grill right on 40th St. It was a nice walk and

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the food was very tasty and reasonably priced.

Friday, September 2: Sunny 1st Friday and Meet Mom

Nicest Morning

Good morning everyone. This morning was one of the nicest mornings to wake up to. I didn't even need to have my fan blowing hard at me. It's too bad the

Sharon's Backyard

forecast calls for some wet weather

At Coffee Joe

due to the tropical storm/hurricane that creeping along like socialism. Well I got to work a little bit late

Walking on Walnut

at approximately 9:09 AM. Fortunately my supervisor was later than I was and they didn't have a person

Going to Sunrise

running around with a clipboard today. I read in the paper state managers got their pay raises  they been asking for for a few years. So today I attempted to do much clean up. I wasn't able to

Meg

write in the packet top. I'm not sure when I'm gonna be able to write one up since I'm only in for 2 days next week. Anyhow, I plugged away at work I

Another View from the EL

ordered out take-out Chinese with a couple of coworkers

View From EL @ 56th Street

because I was very hungry today. It was pretty tasty..

I next worked on

At Bodega

getting today organized. It is first Friday and I'm going to meet Larry Frontica and Meg down in old city

Talk..Talk..Talk the Day

near second market. Meg is out with her mother now. I'll be contacting Larry around 530 6 o'clock

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and I guess I will meet him at his house. It is pretty warm out but nottoo hot. well I wobbled over to

Want to Go

Starbucks and ordered mom a sandwich and a hot coffee in there right now on vine street heading

On 3rd Street

this way which is third and arch. She tells me to Donald Trump motorcade blocked  the parkway. Want to order the food and I'm sitting down here at the third and North Star Park. There is a man and a woman across the street registering voters and their people inside me outside hang out I'm gonna periodically got tired see if I can make tomorrow work. 

Thursday, September 1: Changes in Boundries and Change in Weather

I  Awake

Well I got up and going to the sunrise for the second day in a row. I slept OK I suppose. Afterwords I headed into work with my coffee in hand. Before then,

Halloween is Coming

I had went to Saxby's and tidied up my

Saxby's

blog post from yesterday August 31. Yes, trump went to Mexico and actually made the Mexican president

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look really bad and he's tightening up in the polls as we speak. Two more months left to the election!

View from Saxby's

Oh my God! I just plug the way and grinding away at work. Going to the people that didn't

Boundaries

show up and I just have painting the alerts and I'll be getting. And cleaning up the calendar from

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the last week. I was in kind of a mixed mood just kind of just working that's about all.

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I'm starting to get responses back. The other night I got in the mood to make a bunch of new Facebook

Long Break at Work

friends. It was definitely a lot of people. Mostly of the people were from Lower Marion days. I don't

Computer Slowdown

know most of them very well but it is interesting people into what happened to them over the last

Walnut Street

30 years. I'm in the Elixir café now just unwinding and drinking very rapidly my the calf iced Americano.

Elixir Cafe

I'm also chatting away on messenger Facebook kind of messenger. I then went to group and

Travelling Willbruy's

there were 4 of us there. It was pretty cool we talked about the word them everybody etc. We got

Ready to Go Home

out around five after eight. got home and Sharon was making some delicious chili. I really enjoyed it.

Sharon's Chillie

Sharon had a good day of work but her back was wiped out. First load time has ended which is really good.