For several weeks I prepared for last Monday morning. I need to remove my diplomas and bar admission from my office walls; ditto some awards -- including my Gotham Red Bandana plaque. And a photo on me as a young one turned into a painting that once hung in my paternal grandparents' den at their former home in Hollis Hills. All my signed baseballs, bobbleheads and other mementos got boxed. I made sure to take pictures so I had a decent idea of the proper place when it came time to restore items to their proper places.
This is not about landscaping...it's about an event in the tiny town of Trumansburg, NY that surprised me. The GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is a four-day celebration that started in 1991 and transforms this sleepy upstate town into a sprawling hub of music, dance, and community spirit.
Music from bluegrass to reggae, and an atmosphere that’s checks all the boxes...both family-friendly and eco-conscious.
As I mature and my life evolves I amaze myself that I no longer have that unquenchable thirst to take credit for something I did, inspired or created. Taking credit is the action of allowing people to know that you did something that deserves praise or special attention.
For the past few years we have heard a lot of news headlines around gas prices. They go up, and they go down. When you get gas, you have a choice of paying with cash or credit. Generally speaking credit is about 10 cents more than cash per gallon. It is estimated that about 15% of all gas purchases are with cash, 85% is credit. The 10 cents is supposed to absorb the credit card transaction fees, but is it? If you go to an Exxon/Mobile station and use an Exxon/Mobile card you get the cash price. Shell stations have a similar deal. Other cards will offer an incentive of 5% cash back.
Last week, I took the week off from blogging. I was fighting a virus and pretty darned miserable. [Thank you to all who reached out with well wishes.]
How are you with trying new things?
Since the pandemic, I have done my own billing. As soon as I began inputting my own billing, I have been complaining about the program I used, finding it not user friendly and disliked that it was not cloud based.
While most of the world fixated on two presidents for a variety of reasons, some not so good, last week I explored two earlier presidents who hailed from New York. My wife and daughter like brief jaunts to the Hudson Valley and this one featured visits to Franklin D.