Pic's in the Point

Weekend in New Jersey (August 12)

SUPing at Sandy Hook. Great way to spend the weekend!

Don't tell Coco, but this little guy
may be the coolest dog out there.

Photo 201 – August 11, 2011

Celebrate Brooklyn is finally over! Record night, 80 kegs of beer and every bottle of wine and beer sold as well!

Photo 200 – August 10, 2011

Our three year old nephew, looked at this Star Wars book and said "Tio Rob"

Photo 199 – August 9, 2011

Goodbye recliner (No Coco didn't go with the recliner)....

....hello cool chair

Photo 198 – August 8, 2011

I was driving home and I noticed this crazy hood ornament on a van behind me. It's a head!

Weekend in NY (August 5, 2011)

I got out of the shower, looked around the bathroom and realized that I had had enough!I was sick and tired of the taped together sink and the yellow stained linoleum floors. We were going to go to Home Depot and we were going to fix up the bathroom.

We bought linoleum a) because it's cheap and b) because we rent our apartment and we don't plan on staying here forever. As we started to put the linoleum over the linoleum that was already on the floor, we realized that the old linoleum wasn't even stuck to the floor. We took off the old floor in about 2 minutes. The hubbs spread the glue and half an hour later, he installed the floor. The floor stuck right away, so were we were able to install the sink and toilet right away. The entire project (minus the trip to Home Depot and soup dumplings in Chinatown), took two hours.

Photo 197 – August 4, 2011

Paper airplanes at the beer store.

Photo 196 – August 3, 2011

Bookshelf before

Bookshelf after

Photo 195 – August 2, 2011

Although I was upset because we needed to pack our entire classes in boxes, I am excited because we get to organize everything. When the school year started last year, our class was a mess and we really couldn't get it organized. This year we are taking our time making sure everything has a set place.

Photo 194 – August 1, 2011

Summertime is over! I started work today. Sad, because I never feel like our summer is long enough. Excited because we will have 30 new first graders in two weeks.

We had a cool team building activity, where we were divided up into groups and we had to paint a section of a canvas. We put our canvases together and this was the finished product.

Weekend in NY (7/29/11)

I don't think anyone ate better than us this weekend. First of all my tomato plants are producing so many tomatoes, that I don't know what to do with them. Secondly, we split a salmon from, a fish distributor in Greenpoint, with Anthony. There were some good eats going on!

More tomatoes

Salmon with tarragon (from garden) sauce,boiled potatoes with parsley (from garden)and asapagus

Poached eggs with pan roasted tomatoes
(from garden) and salmon

Pasta with asparagus, green olives, tomatoes (from garden), parsley (from garden), tomatoes (from garden)and truffles.

Photo 193 – July 28, 2011

Before

After

Photo 192 – July 27, 2011

Some of our neighbors have been using the hallway as storage space. Not only does it make the building look cluttered, it's a fire hazard. Someone got fed up and left this note on one of the bikes.

They have since been removed!

Photo 191 – July 26, 2011

These are some yummy treats that we made with tomatoes and peppers from our roof garden. I also made a great tomato sauce, but I forgot to take a picture of it.

Photo 190 – July 25, 2011

From my sister Jessica:

I think Grace may just have a little bit of attitude. Today I put on a new pair of shoes. She started jumping around and one fell off and she tripped over it. She looked at the shoe and in a super deep voice yelled zapato no, then she hit the shoe and as a grand finale she picked up the shoe and threw it. Wow, am I in for it.

Heatwave Weekend- (7/22/2011)

This has to be the hottest weather I have ever experienced.

We went to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central, thinking that oysters would be refreshing on a warm day. Wrong. They don't shuck them to order, so they were sitting on a tray of ice already shucked. They were warm and shriveled. Yuck!

We couldn't take the heat, so we went to Sandy Hook in New Jersey to cool off.

Photo 189 – July 21, 2011

I am so excited about my indoor garden. My mom and sister have given me several plants from their gardens in Miami, that are all understory/shade plants. I also found an amazing plant nursery in Miami, Galloway Farm Nursery, that has a huge assortment of air plants, orchids and bromeliads.

Photo 188 – July 20, 2011

I went to into the city to buy some pots in the flower district for all of the plants that I brought back from Miami. I bought 7 pots, rocks and a piece of wood, when I decided to walk over to Eataly. I was dying to eat some home cooked food, because we ate out almost every night while I was in Miami. While in Eataly, I saw a truffle mushroom for the first time. I was so excited, that I bought one. This mushroom was not sold by the pound, but by the ounce.