NYC Week.

10-1-17 SHORT HILLS: I’ve had a few days off since the end of the Icelandic Saga [an Icelandic word, BTW]. Here, the house is about to get painted. The crew has been sanding and replacing rotted wood for a whole week and are almost ready to start priming and then painting. The siding shingles have been sanded down to bare wood, for the most part. The foundation plantings have taken a beating, much worse than the damage from the roofers.

We have been in the city three times this week. Wednesday we were on the upper west side for dinner with Ina and Marcel at a neighborhood restaurant, Coppola’s, on 79 St. Saturday night we were in the village for dinner with Anna and Gardner at Villa Mosconi on MacDougal St. Today we were back on MacDougal St. for brunch with Sam and Lily at the Minetta Tavern.

Because we were in early today we walked up to Washington Square Park. There was a huge crowd lined up in a semi-circular gauntlet that had us puzzled until Judy quizzed someone and found that they were there for the start of a new season of a TV show called ‘The Amazing Race’.

Saturday afternoon we were dog walking with Lynn and Bill and Bella at Loantaka Park.


Washington Square Park-asters, fall bloomers.

The arch and crowds lined up to watch the start of a new season of "The Amazing Race'.

The Freedom Tower in the distance.