Beautiful Day in NYC with my cousin and her son!

We saw Lady Liberty

and enjoyed the Ferry ride to her and then to NYC,

Battery Park!

My Cousin and I had fun here, her son held our things and we ran through! 

It was a super hot day so this was super refreshing!

They had a WWII memorial for all of those lost at sea.

It was moving to see and the prayer at the end, I wish more today would know it:

Into Thy Hands, O Lord...

Beautiful.

Reminded me of Elizabeth Goudge's Scent of Water.

We enjoyed being at Battery Park before we 

caught a cab to Mr. Husband's work for lunch!

I have no pictures, but I enjoyed a wonderful salad and veggie burger! 

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Then we went to Chelsea Market (I love the French scented soaps!),

and then the high-line Park, which is above ground, on an old train track...

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And then we cabbed to the Strand!

We had done a lot of walking and were glad for the cabs we

were able to flag down!

(I walked at least 8K steps according to my phone)

We visited the Strand and got some great books!

I got some Madeleine L'Engle and Donald Hall, am very pleased about this!

We went to an Italian Restaurant that we have been to a few times before

and I had an enjoyable dish of clams with Pasta!

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We were all really tired by that time and Mr. Husband suggested we take a

cab back home, and so we did, having conversations about architecture, beauty 

and how important they are for us.

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And that was our day in NYC!

A Homemade Life, Second blanket Section & Remains of the Day

Progress on many fronts!

1. I am on the second section of my blue

checkered textured blanket

2. I went to NYC yesterday with my red cart

and it was much better than last time,

when I was just weary and in great need of my 

trusty red cart!

3. I found this book for 2 Dollars at the Strand!

In hardcover with dust jacket.

I've been enjoying it; I read some of it before

at one of my literature reading fantastic cooking friends places...

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I found some other books too but will wait to share those later on, DV!

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So here's the blanket progress:

First section is done 

and I am almost done with the first square of section two! 

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(Sorry for less than brilliant sunny pictures;

took at night and with my phone as

my camera cards are full, the new one is in the mail,

I still have to copy all my still-on-the-now-full-memory-cards

 pictures to my computer /

eternal hard drive to back them up,

which means no camera!)

I am still reading 

Remains of the Day

and it is getting quite interesting;

kind of spy-intrigue like right now,

which now that I think of it, 

is not surprising but I did not expect it.

 I am excited to finish reading this and 

to get more work on my blanket done;

I did get some knitting done on the weekend,

which was great and hope to do more this coming weekend!

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I was so happy to see Madeleine L'Engle's

Wrinkle in Time being displayed

at the Strand :)

I also discovered that

there is a British tea place

fairly near to Mr. Husband's work...

but I did not go in...

They had a bunch of rules and

one was that a 12.50 minimum order was expected.

Well, I wanted tea only so did not go in;

I had an excellent lunch with Mr. Husband

(including a vegan cauliflower soup with cumin and coconut milk

if I remember right; it was good!)

and did not need to spend money unnecessarily. 

But I may go back after Great Lent with a friend...

the one who crochets, sews and is willing to teach me

how to sew and quilt.  

If that alone does not warrant a lunch at a nice tea place,

well what does?! :)

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Loving my reading, knitting &

living to tell the tale of a day in NYC.

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What are you reading and creating?

Any new tales to tell?

Yarn Along with us!

Books I found at the Strand a few weeks back...

I hope to write more about this book yet.

A Christmas book find!

Fun postcards.

I keep saying,

Chocolate is Vitamin Ch for Woman! 

This is a really fun Christmas cookbook,

with lots of stories!

A St. Lucia book :)