………………..This view never gets old! Every day it’s a new “picture”. Yesterday….the picture was about sailing on the blue water against a beautiful blue sky. Soon the season will be over, and I’ll have a winter scape which is beautiful too!
…………………..On the day of my FACE BOOK LIVE SHOW…..Jim, Cathy’s husband, drove them up from PA. where they live…..Weather wise it was the PERFECT day!…..I set up all of the trays of jewelry we were to present in the kitchen. When Cathy arrived at about 11:00am, we went through the show and discussed the order we would show the jewelry in…….then we had time to spare so we sat in my “gathering room” to relax and have some snacks. I took some silhouette pictures of Cathy with the sun streaming through the windows, and a sail boat in the distance……..Jim was enjoying the view from the rocking chair……After the show we went to Greenwich Ct. and had an early dinner at a French restaurant named Versailles Bistro…..then we walked up and down Greenish Ave looking in the shop windows. As usual on a Saturday, it was busy with lots of people……..Then we back back to my house for desert!……..I surprised Cathy and Jim with a RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE! I quickly whipped up some fresh whipped cream, and drizzled some fresh raspberry sauce on the cream….I must say I am becoming a pro at knocking these cheesecakes out!…..They thought it was “absolutely delicious”…..After a while it was time for them to leave to go back to PA……..I gave them Raspberry cake to bring home…….We had a great time together……..For those of you who watched the show I hope you enjoyed it…..If you missed it you can still watch the show video here on my website or on my FACEBOOK page….The SALE is STILL going on!
……………Join Cathy and me TODAY at 1:00pm….EST…..for a FACEBOOK LIVE SHOW…..FALL BONANZA SHOW!!!!….There will be…..GREAT SALES……EZ PAYS ON EVERYTHING…..and….FREE SHIPPING & HANDLING ON EVERYTHING!!!!!! I hope you can join us for some fun….laughs and stories!
………………….When I was three years old my family moved from Brooklyn to Long Island……There were still lots of farms, even a dairy farm. I was friends with a classmate who’s father owned the dairy farm, and we used to play in the barn climbing on the hay bales…..There were lots of fruit trees on many of these farms…..and lots of apples…….However, the apples I remember, and liked the best were the apples from my grandfather’s tree. He owned a house in Brooklyn, with quite a sizable piece of land. He had grape vines that he used to make his wine with….fig trees, a peach tree…….and a huge apple tree…..When we used to go and visit he always picked fresh apples off the tree and gave them to us to eat…….They were the most DELICIOUS APPLES I ever ate, but I never new the name of them. I doubt he knew either……My whole life I have tried many many apples. Jac and I used to take rides to the apple orchards up state to buy small bushels of apples, but I could never find any that tasted like my grandfathers!……Then I tried McCouns, and they were the closest to the ones my grandfather had……crisp and slightly tart……..They are my FAVORITE apples!……….WHICH ARE YOUR FAVORITE APPLES?????………………..Just a reminder………….tomorrow October 5th at 1:00pm….EST……….Cathy and I will be presenting a Fall FACEBOOK LIVE SHOW…….There are great SALE PRICES….higher than we have had in the past……..if you can…come and join us for fun and stories!
…………………….If there were one moment, or one year in your life that you would want to relive……….WHAT WOULD IT BE????………….After thinking about this question I posed to myself….I really had to think hard…..If it was a moment…..it would be the day I married Jac…….but if I had to pick a year……it would be 1978……….That was the year I became THIRTY…..the year this photo was taken……Don’t get me wrong….my twenties were fabulous…..I started working at Anne Klein….a wonderful journey….I lived the kind of life a New York city boy in his twenties would live…..Lots of friends and going out almost every night……But it was also a time of GROWING PAINS…….Not really knowing who I was….jumping around from here to there……one relationship after the other….a some what chaotic life!…….In 1978, when I became THIRTY….it all changed…..By then I was established in my career…..I was lucky to have great success…..I was feeling more of myself, and who I wanted to be……I had a clear direction……..That was also the year of a momentous decision……Jac and I started to date seriously….there was no more running….Jac always said to me…..”I taught you how to LOVE”……and she did……Did my life take a 360 degree turn…..no…..My 30th birthday was at STUDIO 54, and it was a blast, but it was somehow different from all the other nights, and early mornings I spent there!…I no longer felt the NEED to go out every night, and probably do some things I shouldn’t have done….but no regrets……I was at ease with myself….I was comfortable in my own skin……which had a great deal to do with Jac……..My 30th year was an awakening for me in so many ways……Of course if I could snap my fingers and relieve a part of my life again…..it would be the years Jac and I were together……but my “awakening” of who I was as a man was clear to me…….If I could relive one year it would be that year……….1978.