Posts by year -2022 -> 2018

During our Sunday evening May 2nd chat  with the rest of the Orton mob, Ed, responding to Ba’s concerns about the economy, declared that we are headed to a depression. Mark seconded that opinion. Karen took all of this to heart and later in the… Continue reading 5/4/2020 – Timing the Market – Karen and Mark Go All Cash

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August 2020 Karen drove to Andrea’s pandemic house in Westport CT. Andrea had tripped on her pandemic dog Louie’s leash and couldn’t drive to Martha’s Vineyard. I followed along the next day after a HAL board meeting. Met up with Andrea, Karen, Noah,… Continue reading Visit Andrea and family on Martha’s Vineyard – a cautionary postlude

1/2/2020 Nan asked the other day what kinds of dinners we have been preparing. Here are some examples. The pandemic isolation has brought Karen and me to focus more attention on our cooking. Karen in particular has taken up much more of the work. She… Continue reading Food during the Pandemic

Images gathered form various news sources. Josh Hawley, one of over a hundred Republican legislators who supported the insurrection. See this opinion piece in NYTimes: “Confederate Battle Flag an Unnerving Sight in Capitol”

At Columbia Greene Community College. Very smooth operation. In and out in 30 minutes. Few reactions.

Back to Columbia Greene Community College. Same efficiency. Few side effects.

CVS in downtown Troy. Very efficient.

6/11/2012 – a meeting was held with a key investor in UThisMe, LLC. The new business plan, written by Mark, was presented. A $1 million investment followed. Mark has been continuously involved as a consultant in many roles since.

We have collected coffee cups during our travels and as keepsakes of events, family and otherwise.

Mark began his visual investigation of fire connections sometime in the late 2002. By around 2017 he only took pictures of connections that were being used for other purposes. The first in the series. NYC Upper East Side near Metropolitan Museum of A… Continue reading Fire Connections

Drive to Chicago over two days. Thursday 7.15.2021 – leave Hudson 8:20am; stop in Angola IN for the night. Dinner at a local restaurant – Timbers Steakhouse and Seafood. Angola has a striking Civil Way monument in the central intersection of this sma… Continue reading Chicago Trip – 7.15 -> 7.20.2021

Karen, Mark, Esther Hanig, Ed, Meredith, Parker,and Maggie spent the week in Wellfleet.

At CVS on Warren St here in Hudson.