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We are on a school break this week, which means that each day’s adventure is the title of every Curious George book concatenated together:  LITTLE BEAR GOES TO THE PLAYGROUND, LITTLE BEAR RIDES A TRAIN, LITTLE BEAR GOES TO A MARKET, LITTLE BEAR GOES TO THE CIRCUS, etc. etc.  I’m wearing my yellow hat, and…

We’re researching fences right now.  Our current fence is probably 70 years old, and bent in all the wrong places.  A new fence and some tasteful landscaping would really change the curb appeal of our house. The downside is we have a huge area that needs to be fenced because we’re on a corner lot. …

  3 years ago we tied the knot!  It seems both like it just happened and that it’s been much longer (but in a good way) A lot has happened since then– baby, change of jobs twice, my mom passing away, and lots of other stuff too.  But the plusses far outweigh the negatives. For…

Not related to Yonkers so much, but a local shoutout to my cousin Naomi Duerr, who is the executive director of the Truckee River Flood Project, which is a 1.6 billion dollar renovation/restoration of the Truckee River with the aim to reduce flooding and manage the recreational and other developments of said river. She used…

A friend of mine on Facebook was complaining about her neighborhood in Brooklyn where there were no indie coffeehouses with non-rude service, so as a result she felt compelled to go to Starbuck’s.  Here’s what I wrote back: You are complaining because you have indie coffee shops! Here in Yonkers we would kill for some…

Something about the finality of the last paragraph of this news item makes me giggle. LOHUD NEWS ARTICLE Squirrel cuts power to 173 in Yonkers’ Park Hill neighborhood By Ernie Garcia • elgarcia@lohud.com • February 24, 2011 YONKERS — A squirrel left 173 Consolidated Edison customers without power in the Park Hill area of Yonkers…

So unbeknownst to you all– we have a third member of the family.  You know about AA, you know about our cat Joey, but did you know about the third member of our clan?  He stands about 10 feet tall, he doesn’t say much, and he lives in the garage.  (no, I’m not talking about…

AA went through his first week of school, and the short and the long of it is that he LOVED it. After 45 minutes, it’s cleanup time, and then it’s time for a snack.  We are hoping that peer pressure will get him to stop drinking milk out of a bottle and out of a…

As some of you may know, I’ve started up a Dad’s blog also:  http://www.dadapalooza.com.  In that blog, I’ll write specifically about being a Dad, and the pleasures and perils of that position. As many of our Yonked readers may be interested in reading those posts also, but in interest of not duplicating content everywhere.  I’ll…

Realized that we needed to start cooking up vegetables, so I pulled out the slow cooker, 3 lbs of pork loin from the freezer, and went to work. Cut up a raft of last week’s scallions, still good, but getting very green. Garlic scapes Turnips. 1/2 cup cider vinegar the remaining chimmichurri marinade. (about 1/8…

There’s a very interesting arts contest going on right now at   http://www.citid.net/ They are asking graphic designers to create a logo for their city, that captures the vibe of that city.  It’s for a future book and exhibition. Not being a graphic designer, I decided to come up with one anyway.  My idea is that…

It’s a longer story than perhaps you want to know, but for a brief time, our blog was actually somewhere else. Suffice to say, we are now back at https://www.yonked.com and our feedburner (to read us by RSS)  remains http://feeds.feedburner.com/Yonked If you want to read the rest of the story, read below:

After months of waiting, the Fairway at Pelham Manor is opening on April 14! According to Google Maps, the store in Harlem at 125th is 10.9 miles away from us, while the Pelham store is 9.0 miles away. That 2 miles isn’t a huge deal, but there’s a $6.00 toll (Henry Hudson Bridge both ways)…

At last night’s seder, the bear ate some chocolate, and wore even more.

Today, we made 36 hard boiled eggs for Passover (we are going to a Passover seder tomorrow night and bringing eggs, and we hard-boiled the eggs for our seder on Tuesday night (plus a few extra for the chicken liver) Because we are who we are, we decided to use a little science and a…