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Carhenge has new postcards:

And you can’t buy some of them by visiting the gift shop at Carhenge.com because they have shut down the on line gift shop for repairs. Fortunately western Nebraska is a short drive, three four days max, from anywhere in the USA.

Here is a little variation on the “catch and release” style of fishing that is in vogue right now:

At the Newlin Grist Mill the water flows from the mill race back to the stream through some gates over a water fall and through a series of ponds.

They allow trout fishing in the ponds for $3.00 per person. But the fishing is strictly “Catch and Keep”

“All fish caught must be kept!”

Why ask why??

Rebecca took us to the Newlin Grist Mill on US 1 just south of Philadelphia. A mill was first built on this site in 1705.

It was a beautiful morning and we walked along the stream

and peeked into the mill itself. The mill is still operated occasionally.

I really like old mills and this one is well preserved and has inexpensive postcards:

Life is good.

We took Rebecca to Roy’s in Philadelphia for dinner on Monday night. We made the reservation through the concierge at our hotel, 1715 Rittenhouse Square. Two very cool things happened.
First they printed a menu with our names on it.

And second they gave us a free dessert and said it was compliments of the hotel concierge. We talked to the manager at Roy’s and he explained that they do this for every party sent by a hotel concierge to promote hotels sending customers. The free dessert is to get the customer to go back and tell the concierge thank you and say how nice the meal was. It creates a virtuous circle and it works.

Very creative!

As the new librarian at the Sara Cecelia Krakowski Memorial Library (SCKML) at Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC) I am charged with the unenviable task of removing old, worn, dated and unwanted books from the shelves to make room for new books. This is a pictorial example of what I have to go through:

“The Spark and the Exodus:

by Benedict and Nancy Freedman

It was a gift to the library before 1955

and the last time it was borrowed was in 1963.

This is still a good idea for the SCKL

According to the historic bookplate

it was:

“A gift from Oswald Trilling

in memory of Samuel Nimitz.”

I decided to put this book in the archives but to leave its card in the catalog so that if any one looks for it in the next decade it could be, with effort, found and read again. None of the books that were put in the archive a decade age have ever been looked for.  Is it time for some existential angst?

Yesterday we went to a Washington Nationals – Atlanta Braves game at RFK Stadium in Washington DC.

The stadium was built in 1961 and is showing its age.

This is the last year the Nationals will play here and the Redskins left a decade or so ago. So it is a good thing we came now because we would have missed tis 60′s architechural landmark. The Nationals, for those of you not following closely, are the former Montreal Expos. Based on the promise of a new stadium they have been in DC for two years.

The Senators who played here in the 60′s left to become the Houston Expos. The best thing about the game, won by the Braves 3-0, was the Presidents race after the 5th inning. I had my picture taken with them:

Washington won the race.

They sang the National Anthem and America the Beautiful. What a great country.

Play ball.

“How much there is to know about the world.”

John Derbyshire

National Review Columnist and Author

This one might fall under only in California:

Here is a close up:

I took the picture in Hollywood while looking for a parking place.  I wasn’t trying to visit the Hollywood Sign.   Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of the sign and the sign about the sign in the same frame.

“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.”

In Praise of Idleness

Bertrand Russell

British Mathematician and Philosopher

1872 – 1970