Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 13

From Mashed: America loves its hot dogs. If you've ever spent time at a ballpark, attended a Fourth of July picnic, or watched Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, you can attest to this fact. If not, here are some pretty convincing numbers. According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans purchased $3 billion worth of wieners in 2018, alone. During the summer, this nation will devour roughly 7 billion hot dogs. And, on the Fourth of July, revelers will nosh on 150 million of them, which equates to enough hot dogs to form a line all the way from "DC to LA more than five times." That is a sizeable heap of hot dogs. In 2019, url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/17/july-4th-hot-dog-and-hamburger-consumption-by-state/39580323/USA Today offered that the state with the highest "estimated hot dogs eaten per capita annually" was West ... read more

Are you still there? We hope so. We are hoping that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”. Is it true, is it?? ❤️❤️ We’ve been pretty sluggish in writing these blogs so there’s a lot to catch you up on. Nothing super terribly exciting so don’t get all hipped up. No need to get in your comfy chair and line up your preferred drinks. This will be easy reading cause we are living the easy life during this delightful summertime. ?? Summertime… and the livin' is easy! Fish are jumpin', And the cotton is high?? I love singing….just wish I could. Our immediate routine, once we returned, was to go to funerals and dentists…..neither of which was something we looked forward to. My good friend, Mary Kay, that I had morning coffee with for all the ... read more

Sunday: Started my time in New York off by hiking a portion of the finger lakes trail. The entire trail runs 580 miles end to end but including the entire network is 950 miles all in New York. Of course New York State isn't that wide but the trail is very wiggly. Did a 7 mile hike which was gorgeous and forested. Lots of good scenery and only passed 2 other hikers the entire way! Even on a Sunday afternoon and 75* I thought more people would be outside. What's odd is getting to multiple sections where the forest is clear cut for electrical work. It's very drastic and suddenly sunny- quite the contrast to being in the shaded forest. Monday: Downtown Ithaca is super cute! Though a lot of shops are closed on Mondays. There ... read more

Hello again! I know it has been a long time since putting up any posting on the blog. As we are currently pretty much packed and checking off our “to do list” before heading back to Tsamaya this coming Monday, decided it was worthwhile checking in to see if I even remember how to put up a post with photos. I’m actually glad I am trying it as the software I typically used to make the collages, stated there was an update, so unfortunately, I clicked on it today and not even the basic things I used to be able to do work. Oh well, it should have made an improvement, but in this case it didn’t. Did some research and found another software to use so trying it out before we leave. The last I ... read more

I was, again, awake extremely early, but I couldn't face heading anywhere too far away, so I just popped out to the nearby Times Square for some early morning photographs . It's surprisingly difficult to get decent pictures of, given how bright the screens are. I gave it up as a bad job once I had been asked for money once too many times. Given the time in the morning, it was surprisingly busy. My daughter is a Starbucks fan so we went there for coffees and then (sadly) to McDonalds for some breakfast. The lady supervising the seating area was not impressed when we tried to get past with our Starbucks coffees. We then walked along Park Lane to look around some shops, including a browse in Tiffany's (I was justifiably concerned) and the very ... read more