NYC Photos Day 2

Photos from NYC Day One

YES!

The New York Rangers play at 3:30 Sunday afternoon!  I thought it was at 8:00 pm and therefore impossible for me to go as our plane is leaving at 8:00 pm.  Our hotel guy helped me get tickets!  THIRD ROW TICKETS!  I'm so excited I cannot stand myself.

Me and Laura.  Everyone is excited for me.  Now,
as long as the taxi can get me to the airport
on time for our 8:00 pm flight home!

NYC Bus Tours

NYC bus tours is rubbing my face in the fact that the Rangers' playoff schedule isn't fitting our vacation schedule.  A lot of the buses are covered in Ranger pics.

NYC Hotdogs

One of the main things I wanted to do in NYC was to eat a hotdog on the street. Well our taxi driver who drove us from the airport squished that plan.  He said no eating hot dogs from street vendors.  They don't ever change anything out.  The water is put in the morning and stays the same all day and is nasty.  We said "What if we get there at 9:00 am for a hot dog"?  Our taxi driver said "Do NOT eat a hotdog off the street".  Tragically disappointed over the Rangers game not working out with scheduling and now this.......oh well................least I'm seeing NYC.

To appease my distress I ate a hotdog at Ellen's Stardust diner. Pretty Good! The wait staff, who are Broadway hopefuls, sing and puts on shows.

Subway

Rode the Subway some this week.  Funny thing though.  No one was selling any sandwiches anywhere.....  

New York City

This time tomorrow I will be in New York City!!!  Any suggestions on must things to do?

Chris's Momma

Here you go!  Several have been asking the new rehab address to send Chris's mom a card.  She throughly loves getting cards from family and friends.  The address is Select Speciality Hospital, 1901 Clinch Ave, Emma Lee Hull, Room 431, Knoxville, TN  37916.  

Thanks for continuing to think about her and your prayers. 

Retired Numbers

How does a rookie hockey player make sure to get a number that if traded someday another team has that number available so that if someday he is a legend his number will be retired?

Volunteer Breeders Classic

Chris won all three open divisions of the Tennessee Reining Horse Association  Volunteer Breeders Classic four year old Derby riding Landon and Cindy Backus four year old gelding Nu Magnum Chex or nickname "Twenty."

"Twenty" seems to like his prizes!

NYR Stanley Cup Playoffs

Nooooooooo!!!!!! Going on about my fifth vacation in my whole entire 41 years of life and the NYR Stanley Cup game at home is Wednesday night.....the night before we get there.  Then there is a game on Sunday night if needed, night we leave........  Ugh.

Car tag I got in 1994.  I also ordered the whole
NYR Stanley Cup win collectors set--video, hat, etc.

(This disappointment is just one more NHL tragedy this year.  First the lockout. Now this.  But number one on my list is the Nashville Predators not making the playoffs.)

Squirrel trying to beat traffic....

Little squirrel running across the road, if you are going to commit to something, commit.  Don't stop half way......

Roses

Rose I started last Fall.  Not very big yet.  Probably take couple of years to be decent size.  Going to plant soon.  Hope it doesn't die!

Finches and Hummingbirds

Finches and hummingbirds are here.  And buddy, they both eat a lot!

Hummingbird

Relay for Life

Relay for Life
Hiwassee College
April 26, 2013

Great niece Mallie Belle

Yes, I got in the bounce house too.

NYR Stanley Cup Playoffs

New York Rangers have clinched a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs!!!  Here's hoping they have a home game the weekend we're in NYC.  Oh please.......

Relay for Life

Relay for Life is tomorrow night at Hiwassee College in Madisonville.  I'm wanting to go.  In a way.  It's a great cause and I need to go.  Last year it was at SQHS, I think.  It's the first year I attended and I was very, very uncomfortable.  Relay for Life is for survivors like me and those who have cancer and those who may get cancer.  I'm just silly I guess......

Whippoorwill

I heard my most favorite sound in the world tonight......a whippoorwill.  In Hopewell and Corntassel where I was raised, there were many, many whippoorwills.  If I can think long and hard I can almost hear them, the crickets, the frogs and feel the warm summer night air on my face.  I loved sitting outside and listening to the whippoorwill call to one another.

We now live in Madisonville, which seems so very far away from the communities I was raised. (Actually it's only about 20 minutes.)  When we moved there was one lone whippoorwill I would listen too.  The next year it was gone.  Couple years went by and heard another for a while.  Silence the past few years.  Until tonight.  I'm so excited to what spring and summer may bring.  Hopefully many more whippoorwills.  

Whippoorwills nest on the ground and are susceptible to attacks by cats and coyotes.  We don't have many cats around, that I know of, hunting in the woods at night.  But there are a lot of coyotes on occasion.

Oh, please let us have a few at our farm this year.  That would be the perfect summer............

Wonder what I could do to attract Whippoorwills to our farm?  And keep them safe.

Best NHL Playoff Beard

NHL regular season play is over this weekend.  What a horribly short year of hockey!  To top off a short year is the fact that we'll not get to see the best Stanley Cup playoff beard since the Predators were eliminated.

Oh well, next year we'll get to see Shea Weber's beard because the Nashville Predators are going to have the best season ever.  I think our rookie talent will be ready to win it all in 2013-2014.

UFC 159

Yep, watching......

Third Day

Third Day concert tonight with my niece Amber and nephew Colton in Hixon, TN.  We all went a couple of years ago to see the band in Knoxville.  My other niece Chelsea was along for that trip but shafted us this time.

Cannot believe Third Day has been around 20 years......I can remember seeing them in concert, way back when, at Six Flags in Atlanta.  That was early 90's.  I've seen them in concert several more times through the years and always leave with a smile on my face although I'm always quite disappointed they never play "Thief".  (Never mind that it was a hit in probably 1995.)

Haven't heard of them?  Make sure to take a listen and make sure to take in a concert.  Third Day is no studio creation and need no background tapes.  Mac Powell's voice is always perfect and the band, well, the band is a real band.  That's the thing about being a 80's girl.  We appreciate bands.  Real bands who play real instruments real good.

My nephew Colton and niece Amber

Me, Colton and Amber

Colton and his J103.1 sticker. I think he was
more excited about the sticker than the concert.

Aunt

I love be deduced to "I'm with my Aunt" instead of "I'm with Marna" when the nieces or nephews are on the phone with someone who asks,
 "who are you with?"

Lynette's Retirement

My sister Lynette's retirement officially starts tomorrow.  Today was her last day at the Monroe County Health Department after 30 years of dedicated service.

Blogging Time

Not much time to blog the past couple of weeks with Chris's mom getting ready for, having her surgery and now recovering from it.  Lots of ideas for posts but no time for follow through.  I'll probably forget all my thoughts when it comes down to having time.

The 80's

What was great about the 80's?  
...........................There were bands.  
..............................................Who played real instruments.

Soupy Potatoes

Made soupy potatoes for Chris's mom today.  I got a little too much flour and too much milk but she said they were good.  Nurse said his mom didn't eat very much dinner and hardly any dinner so they were a good evening snack.  

High Plains Drifter

Love old Clint Eastwood westerns.  They are the greatest.  In "High Plains Drifter" there is an interesting conversation between The Stranger and Sarah Belding

Sarah Belding "Be careful. You're a man who makes people afraid, and that's dangerous."

The Strangers: "It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid."

Always thought this was an interesting quote.  

Highlights

Saw this on a table in the ICU waiting room when visiting Chris's mom this weekend.  Momma got me a year's subscription to "Highlights" when I was really little.  I loved going to the mailbox and having mail of my very own.  Made even better that it was "Highlights".  Now that I'm a grownup it's not so fun to pick up the mail.  Bills just don't stack up to "Highlights". 

Peanut Butter

Chris brought some peanut butter home from visiting with Brandon and Cathy in Ohio.  He told me to taste it. 

I said, "I really don't like peanut butter that much."  Chris said "It doesn't taste like peanut butter. Here, try it, it's really good."  

I asked him, "Well, if it doesn't taste like peanut butter what does it taste like? Chicken?"