Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

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Took the kids and the old wife to see this show on Saturday night. Quite a head trip for all concerned. The video doesn’t do it justice, you need to be there but gives you an idea.

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How to deal with the high and rising cost of food? Well here at the Miyares Farm already starting to eat what we sow! Arugula, Spinach, Tomatoes , Corn, Blueberries and more.
This year only planted a small patch but expect to increase to an acre or more by 2009. The plans also call for a hen house for fresh eggs.
The photo was taken early in the day , June 14th 2008 to be exact to the day. The land looked parched and it was but had a deluge late in the afternoon which brought much needed relief for what has been a dry late spring.
Rasputin, the guard dog at the Miyares Farm poses defiantly for the camera in the photo to the left next to a row of Tomato plantings.

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Here I am at the Top of the same building climbed by Alain Roberts and the other dude from Brooklyn this past week.
I made it up in the conventional style.
I watched them build this skyscraper from the foundation all the way to the pinnacle. It was a thrill to get to the top while they were still working on it though the ironworkers had long since departed.

In the second photo you can spot the “ladder” like skin to the building which made climbing it a cinch to anyone crazy enough to try. The building is covered in its entirety.
Now if someone can get me to the top of the new World Trade Center Tower 1 (aka Freedom Tower)!

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New Yorkers enjoying a beautiful Spring day in late May 2008 on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Dropped a pretty penny at Tavern on the Green. Took the extended family for brunch and since I guess I look like the rich one in the group, was handed the check no questions asked.

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Everywhere you go in New York City including the caverns known as the New York City Subway System, there is someone assailing your ears or in ths case, a group of percussionists doing their thing will “straphangers” wait for the F train at 14th Street and Union Square in Manhattan.

Empty Plastic carpentry compound pails form the instruments in this case. They were so good I actually dropped money in the tin cup as my train was arriving.

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From jumping on the subway to a staff meeting after staff meeting.
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High above Queens, New York; a borough of New York City for those that don’t know, a view of the under-construction Citi Field which will replace Shea Stadium as the home of the New York Metropolitans better known as the Mets.

Based on Ebbets Field, the old home of the Brooklyn Dodgers who fled to sunny Los Angeles well before my time in the late ’50’s.

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What with all the travel related to managing a team somewhere else, have not had the opportunity over the past few months to spend time in Reston, VA where I make my official home. The picture here, taken from the Miyares Spring Collection 2008 was a glorious spring day recently in the Old Reston Towne Center.
A little “New York” in between the sprawl wasteland of Northern Virginia is how I think of it.

Tags: Reston, Julio Hernandez-Miyares, dogs