GO YANKEES

RETIREMENT

Yankee Stadium-You can take a man out of New York but you can't take New York out of the man

Our town in Florida

                                         I've been retired for 12 years but who's counting!  I've moved 5 times.  I've bought three houses and sold two..  First I was in Long Island for two years,sold that house which I had only owned for four years because it was too far from nowhere out there near THE END.   My husband still regrets it.  He never put his foot down for the whole year we tried to sell it by owner.  We just went back.  The beaches and towns are gorgeous out there.  We now live in Cape Cod across from Martha's Vineyard.  We have to travel for an hour to see the ocean which is fabulous with sand dunes and salty air and quaint little villages here and there. We  have fallen in love with Olde Cape Cod.  It's not as plastic as the Hamptons.  We lived in the UnHampton with daily sightings of Billy Joel and Julie Andrews. But there are few Yankee fans in Massachusetts, so we don't fit in. 

Around the corner from our Cape Cod house

Our front view in Florida

Our backyard in Florida

                                  Since 2000 we've been displaced Westchester residents.  We now have two houses under water (worth less than we paid) in Central Florida.  After the 2008 economic we couldn't sell either.  All they are buying are foreclosures.  We'll try again this year.  

FOOL MOON

                                  So that's the Retirement saga.  We are getting too old for this constant change and decision making.  Never Look Back and No Regrets should be our mottos.  But when the Full Moon hits I get real estate crazy.

TWO SEALS IN BOURNES POND

BOURNES POND IN EAST FALMOUTH,MA

       I did not see the two seals sighted by those on shore while I was kayaking on Bournes Pond in East Falmouth today.  It was quite windy.  I went the other way and never knew there were seals in the pond until I got out of my kayak.  Then my husband informed that he and another man had seen two seals swimming across the pond while i was kayaking at the other end.  If they were correct then the seals had swam 2.5 miles into the inlet aka pond from Vineyard Sound.    Perhaps they entered the pond from Vineyard Sound to escape the wind or some marauding GREAT WHITE SHARK.  There have been many seals in other parts of Cape Cod but not Falmouth.  Finallly we had some.  I saw many ducks and one Great Blue Heron but I never saw the seals.

ROSA RAGUSA

              My new Roa Ragusa survived the winter and is bllooming on my side fence.    It was just planted last year.  But the mild winter helped it survive.    Rosa Ragusas re the fragrant pink and white roses you see and smell along the beaches on Cape Cod.  THis one is whiote.  I hope the other which hasn't bloome dyhet is

AIN'T NO TIME FOR THE SUMMER TIME BLUES

                     It's gorgeous at the Cape.  The water is perfect for swimming.  Red white and blue abound in flags,fireworks,cakes,flowers and fruit.  So far no one has rained on our parade. Iit's summer-my time of year.

DAY GAME -YANKEE STADIUM DURING A HEAT WAVE

    

NEW YANKEE STADIUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE FREEDOM TOWER AT GROUND ZERO-NYC

 

KNISH-CORNER DELI IN  THE BRONX

                       We finally made it to the new Yankee Stadium two years late on an incredibly hot June day for a day game versus the Atlanta Braves.  First we had a pastrami sandwich, a knish and a chocolate egg cream  at the Corner Deli next to the massive Bronx Courthouse.  Even more sedate and enormous sits the new stadium nearby.  We sat in one of the highest rows under an overhang so a Bronx breeze would caress the back of our necks during the game.  The Yankees lost after many home runs but it was fun anyway.  The old stadium is now a green park.  All that remains is the giant baseball bat.

TWO LARGEST WATERFALLS IN USA IN MEMORIALS AT GROUND ZERO NYC

REFLECTION

NEVER FORGET 9/11

  It's kind of like Ground Zero.  When something new is built finally and the remains of the past are removed or memorialized, you start to forget.  I lamented the destruction of the House That Ruth Built.  I morn the demise by the terrorists of 3000 people in the Twin Towers of The World Trade Center in New York City.  My husband the Yankee fan finally went to Fenway Park during it's 100th year.  At least in the Bronx, the ornate over multi-statued Bronx Courthouse remains and you can still get a good pastrami sandwich nearby.  Now if only the heat wave had waited until July and the Yankees had won with all those homers.

9/11

GROUND ZERO-NYC

FALMOUTH,MA MEMORIAL TO A WOMAN KILLED IN ONE OF THE PLANES THAT TERRORISTS CRASHED INTO NEW YORK'S TWIN WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS

TIMES SQUARE-NYC

FREEDOM TOWER-GROUND ZERO-NYC

YANKEE STADIUM BEFORE THE FINAL WRECKING BALL

HERE'S TO YOU JOE DIMAGGIO!