Wednesday, October 19, 2005
I can see clearly now….........
Hello Dear Readers
Sorry that I am slow in writing again but we have been busy bailing out the house; can’t get rid of the smell yet. We have made it less, but not totally gone. It is just the worst smell ever. Can’t wait to tear up the carpet and get it out of here. Soggy, stinky carpet has got to go!!!
So besides bailing out the house the last few days we also took a drive out east. Meaning that we drove toward the eastern end of Long Island. It is more open there and reminds me more of places I love to be in MI. Our friends took us to what is known as a ‘Mum Farm’; here we got incredibly huge pots of mums at 4 pots for $10. We took the big van and filled it with 12 plants - only 4 of them were our’s though.
Then it was on to picking pumpkins for decorating. We picked some real nice ones and can’t wait till closer to Halloween to carve them up and then roast the seeds for a delicious treat. I told our friends that if they would give me the seeds from their pumpkins that I would roast the seeds for them too.
Next we stopped at a restaurant for lunch and I tried duck for the first time. Cooked crispy and covered with a raspberry sauce - OMG - it was one of the best tasting meals I have ever had. It was served with my choice of soup or salad, (had cream of broccoli soup) a twice baked potato and green beans - steamed just enough as they were still a bit crisp. Topped that meal off with rainbow sherbet, just enough of a dessert that I wasn’t overly full.
Our next stop was to see the famous Long Island Duck. Frankly I didn’t even know it existed till I had lived here two years and read about it in the newspaper. From that point on I wanted to go see it. I have seen it!! I can’t wait to go back around Christmas time to see it all decorated for the season.
And here it is…......
This is an old picture, it has changed location since then.
It isn’t very big inside; about the size of small living room. It has many pictures of the duck in it, as well as souvenirs and a cut out so that you could look at what exactly the duck was made of - pretty cool. Originally it was the office of a man who owned a duck farm; now did you know that Long Island was once famous for it’s duck farms?? No. Well me neither.
So now Dear Reader you know some of what I have been up to these last few days. A bit of drudge, a bit of exploring and a splash of fun.
Till next time - I’m heading off to bed for now.
