Gobble Wobble
While in Philadelphia for the holiday, my family and I ran in the Abington YMCA Thanksgiving Day 5K “Gobble Wobble” Road Race. From left to right, it’s me, niece Siobhan, cousin Stan, niece Emma, their friend Yvonne, Yvonne’s daughter Abbie, and my cousin-in-law Karen. It was a cold morning (hence my shorts and mittens), but it was a nice course through all residential neighborhoods and nice homes. It was my nieces’ (who are 9 and 12) first 5K’s and they already want to do more. My time was 35:59 even.
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Eastern State Penitentiary 2
When Chicago mobster was arrested in Philadelphia on an unlicensed gun charge, he served a little less than a year at Eastern State Penitentiary. This is his “furnished” cell (note the radio against the far wall), in a “nice” section of the prison known as “Park Avenue.”
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Eastern State Penitentiary 1
This week I’m in Philadelphia visiting family for Thanksgiving. On the advice of my buddy Rob, I took a trip today to tour the Eastern State Penitentiary, and old, sprawling prison complex which was built in the 1830’s. The prison was designed to look like a Medieval fortress/castle from the outside. On the inside, the hub (guard shack) and spoke (cell blocks) design was an innovation later copied by penitentiaries around the world.
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Chicken Pot Piiiiieeee!!
Cooking one of my fav dishes… chicken and mixed veggies with biscuits on top. Thanks to those old A Man, A Can a Plan cookbooks, this was one of the first recipes I learned to make on my own.
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Zebra Butterflies
Another photo of the butterflies at The Butterfly Place with Kristin and Jamie. These are Heliconius charithonia, appropriately named Zebra Butterflies. They live for only two weeks.
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Puppies!!
So today at the Worcester Animal Rescue League, I signed up for Puppy Duty. WARL received a batch of puppies from a shelter in Alabama, and has them in quarantine for the next few days. My job was to take the pups – seven in all – out and let them play while another volunteer and I cleaned their cages. It seemed they came from two different littersm there were four brown dogs and three smaller black and white dogs. They weren’t brand new puppies, but they were definitely less than a year old. It was fun times, playing with seven little dogs at once (even though I got bleach on my new(ish) pants – grrr). But get this… This dog I’m holding, one of the small black ones, is named BJ!
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When You Gaze Into the Abyss…
Not really the abyss… just Robert Motherwell’s “In Plato’s Cave No. 5” at the Worcester Art Museum. I visited WAM’s Winter Open House today with Sara and Jen. I was wondering where I had seen this all-black painting before, then remembered I had seen its sister earlier this year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It’s cool that our li’l WAM has the same pieces as the PMA.
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MST Day 5
A photo from the Mid State Trail, Day 5: Princeton to Westminster. Paul B is standing next to the Balancing Rock.
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Mid State Trail Pt 4
This is a segment of the MST near Crow Hill in Leominster. This wasn’t technical rope climbing, but it did require some scrambling on all fours, and was definitely the steepest part of the trail. It was steep but fortunately short.
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