Caffeine at the pool on a Monday morning~

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Forward Crawl and Backstroke doing well.  The dolphin kick was a bit of a mess. Not using the quads enough to match the top and bottom kicks – working on it.

Today dievca’s building is shutting down the elevators from 5 am to 7 am for a full fire inspection. dievca  has a plan for coffee on the sundeck to watch the sunrise and an early swim.  How packed are the elevators going to be at 4:45 am?  Who knows – worst case scenario, dievca has coffee at home and she cancels the swim reservation.

Good Morning! have a lovely week.


TMI

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As dievca rushes to the restroom, she wishes you the best for your week!


Good Morning, Sexy!

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Have a good week!


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After two days of non-stop rain and dievca having to travel in it all weekend; subway delays, wild-a** bus rides, a flat bicycle tire in Times Square where the tourists walk 5 abreast with umbrellas, and wearing full rain gear…the sun has appeared. dievca is enjoying her coffee in its lovely rays. Have a good week.


Coffee and a strange sight~

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What’s with the pink tree on the High Line and 10th Avenue?

A 25-foot-tall fluorescent pink tree, a sculpture by the Swiss conceptual artist Pamela Rosenkranz, will land on New York’s High Line next April like a synthetic being, rising amid its budding-green brethren where the elevated park bridges 10th Avenue at West 30th Street. Reading as a tree (but obviously artificial), this rendition will have visceral qualities, with branches tapering into blood vessels and roots reaching over the earthen-clad plinth as though poised for flight.

“The whole tree might remind us of an organ,” said the artist, 43, who is based in Zurich and is the winner of the third High Line Plinth commission, a rotating program for monumental public artworks on view for 18 months at a time. (The first artists were Simone Leigh and Sam Durant.) Rosenkranz’s work, “Old Tree,” was selected from 80 proposals solicited from artists in 40 countries, nominated by international advisers and posted on the High Line’s website in 2020 for public feedback.

Digitally merging scans of actual trees with those of human circulatory systems and muscles, Rosenkranz fabricated an armature in metal on which she is sculpting layers of tactile polymer, tinted with pigments of vivid reddish pinks. “This color has a history of being quite attractive,” she said in an interview, “but I’m looking for a dissonance, something that also awakes or repulses.”

She was inspired by Louise Bourgeois’s monumental sculptures of spiders when designing her tree’s animated roots that appear to be scrambling from the plinth. “There’s a bit of a humoristic aspect,” she said, “as if the tree would like to leave its planter.”

From a NYT Article from Hilarie M. Sheets

Photos: dievca NYC High Line 04/2023

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Master and dievca figured it out.

We hope you do, too.

Happy Monday!


Just poured and ready to go!

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Good Morning – have a good week.


Master caught dievca muttering to herself~

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It’s a learned behavior, dievca’s Dad would talk to himself, too.
The good news is dievca is willing to look at both sides of the story and she always wins the argument.
Do you talk to yourself?
Have a good week!


Coffee at the Airport

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It was a “pound it out” type of weekend. dievca is shipping a box of photos back to NYC for sorting.  The three Aunt’s photos her parents never went through and her Parent’s photos/slides make for a nice pile.  dievca projects it will take 5 weekends to complete – so a 5 year project.  At least there is storage for the leftovers and a number of boxes were consolidated. 

Why is dievca doing this? Her middle brother had a fire or flood or something that destroyed their family photos.  The extras will go to their local portion of that family and be distributed to siblings. Yes, that brother did nothing for Mom/Dad and dievca’s sister-in-law is a “challenge” – but going through this stuff with this portion of the family is ALWAYS a treat! And one feels good after hanging out with kids and doing a good deed.

PS. Her oldest brother looks great after Stage 2 cancer – PET scan is clear.


Finished! How is your Monday?

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Project deadline: COMPLETE and ON TIME!


Are you ready for the week ahead?

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Good Morning!


Running a bit late this Monday morning

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BUT FIRST COFFEE pillow from Amazon $21.99


A last look~

The final walk on the beach with coffee,
and a little bit of color to get your week started.
XO


Happy early Valentine’s Day

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~from my heart to Yours~

XO dievča


Not an auspicious start…

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Spilled Maple Syrup
Misplaced Eye Glasses

It’s a rough Monday morning.


Thinking of you! (and your coffee)

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However you take your coffee – may it start your week on a positive note!


A sweet start to the Chinese New Year~

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The Pet Friends mugs can be found at Interismo – dievca prefers the Fox mug, but one should go with the season! XO


Coffee Anyone?

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The Brightest Thing on a Rainy Day!

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Isn’t the Good Morning Coffee! 

It’s catching up with your Sir or Madam. XO


Ready to Push Onward with coffee and a poem

Christmas Coffee

May the Xmas joy percolate into your mind
May the Xmas love blend into your heart
May his grace filter down to your soul
And like a well made coffee let it revitalise your life
Merry Christmas to everyone

Jibrael Jos


Good Morning from NYC

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Photo: dievca – Chelsea NYC 12/2022


Coffee as a Stimulant….

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A few years ago Master had major surgery — the morphine was lovely, but it had consequences…

If dievca is ever stuck – just give her coffee. Leaded or unleaded will work.
It wasn’t so easy for Master…


A Cortado for the Road – Leaving Miami

Screenshot_20221127_194112_Googledievca is doing her water workout at 6:30 am, picking up a cortado at her favorite Cuban “window” (Las Olas Café), then taking an Uber to the airport.

Will Smith is on repeat in her head…its been a very good trip.
(at least dievca isn’t hacking up her lungs anymore)

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~Autumn has finally arrived in NYC~

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What
Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 expected.
Where
In New Jersey, Hudson County. In New York, New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Richmond (Staten Island), Kings (Brooklyn), Northern Queens, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
When
From 8 PM this evening to 10 AM EST Monday.
Impacts
Frost and freeze conditions will kill sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Additional Details
The growing season will be coming to an end for these areas Monday November 21, and Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings will no longer be issued for this season after Monday.
WARM COFFEE A NECESSITY AFTER THE BIKE RIDE TO WORK!


A certain age of Female…

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Will know who Jake Ryan is…

and can know that dievca was the same year in High School as Samantha, but she runs a year younger.

XO


One more cup of coffee before I go~

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Master and His dievca agree

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Autumn in New York is key!

We hope you are enjoying your Fall, too. XO


Columbus Day (observed) & Leif Erikson Day.

Norwegian CoffeeColumbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

There is the argument that the first person to step foot in the America’s is Leif Erikson:

Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. It honors Leif Erikson, the Norse explorer who led the first Europeans thought to have set foot in continental North America.

Leif Erikson Day is commemorated on October 9 in honor of the ship Restauration, which arrived in New York on October 9, 1825, from Norway. This marked the beginning of organized immigration from Norway to the United States.

One of dievca’s Sister-In-Laws is of Norwegian descent. dievca remembers the Grandmother coming to her Brother’s wedding in full Norwegian Folk Dress with a braided crown. Fabulous.

Wait! she forgot! Master is 1/2 Norwegian, too. Sending a little love~


Good Morning – planning the day!

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It was “put the sweater on – take the sweater off – put the sweater on” yesterday.
Let’s see what today holds.
Have a Lovely week!


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