The view from the bottom of my driveway.
I had lunch with my friend Janet on Friday, who I have been good friends with since high school. We went to Corky and Lenny’s, which is an amazing deli that has been in business as long as I can remember.
Here are some of our family’s favorite dishes to order. Would you believe that they actually have mail order info on their website?
- MISH MASH - Motzoh Ball, Kreplach, Noodles and Rice - LG. BOWL $5.95
- Chocolate Phosphate 16oz. Our Homemade Recipe 1.75
- LOX PLATTER 12.00 Sliced Belly or Nova Lox, Cream Cheese, Onion, Tomato and Black Olives. Served with Bagel or Rolls & Butter.
- #4 HOT CORNED BEEF, SWISS CHEESE 9.50
Margaret has blogged about an egg cup that her husband Miles has used since he was a child for her weird object Friday post. Her brother Ben has blogged a picture of his egg cup also. I too own an egg cup that used to belong to my mother. According to a link that Margaret found, it is used for soft boiled eggs. Below is some information I found on Ebay that is about my particular egg cup. I also found a picture.
" This egg cup is vintage Opalex made in France, and consists of a little white chick carrying the egg cup on its back. It measures 2 ¼” high, 1 ¾” across the cup opening, and about 3” wide at the widest part. "
I also learned that this little chick is made of milk glass.
I have a story for you. Fifteen years ago, My husband’s Aunt Mary Died. Aunt Mary lived in a large, three story duplex in Cleveland. She lived alone in that house which she inherited from her parents and spent her post retirement years garage sailing. At the time of her death, Aunt Mary’s entire house, garage and car were stuffed to capacity with her treasures. I was one of many people who helped my mother-in-law clean out that house. It took us six months.
The first problem we encountered was that there was no room to make piles of the sorted stuff anywhere because every inch of space was already occupied. We started by putting all the costume jewelery in the bathtub. I also remember that the smell of moth balls everywhere and to this day, the smell instantly brings back the memory of that house. Megan remembers that we found seven old fashioned hair dryers, multiple games of scrabble and more bars of soap than could be counted. I remember spending an entire day throwing out the junk mail that accumulated. (she never threw that out either).
What does this have to do with weird object Friday you ask? I was very choosy as to what I took out of that house, and my one significant treasure was this reproduction of an Aztec calendar. Here is the product info that I found at Amazon.com.
Aztec Solar Calendar Wall plaque
Product Description
Antropological Museum, Mexico City. 1500 A.D.
The Aztec calendar set out the mathematical formulas according to which the whole universe was organized and which governed the actions of men and Gods alike. The calendar is actually two: the Xiupohualli or the count of the days and the Tonalpohualli or the count of destiny. The calendar had to be consulted through the priests before engaging in any activity whether it was farming, warfare, religion or commerce. In addition to the count of the days, it also has astronomical data like the phases of the moon and Venus and the years of Mercury and Mars. The calendar also mentions the four eras of humanity known as “suns” before our own: all ended in cataclysm. The sun that is now ours, the fifth one, Nahui Ollin (”four earthquake”) is supposed to end by cataclysmic earthquakes. The Aztecs attributed the invention of the calendar to the God Quetzalcoatl. The calandar weighs 25 tons and has a diameter of eleven feet.
Want more of weird object Friday? Follow these three links: Margaret’s blog Jessica’s blog & Ben’s blog (Margaret’s brother Ben not my son Ben) Would you like to join us?
Image maps and hot spots
This is a picture of a salad that Megan & I made last summer. I turned it into an image map. This means that there are multiple “hot spots” to click on. Each spot is coded with a set of coordinates. Click on all the hot spots to see what ingredients are in my salad.
Open a new window
Do you ever wonder how you can set a link in a new window? This can be advantagous if you do not want your reader to wander away from your web site.
You can open a link in a new window by using the target attribute in your h ref. Just set the value to blank. I will write the code here so you can actually see it.
<a href=”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/” target=”_blank” > read about my favorite movie in a new window
read about my favorite movie in a new window
