What's up in the Neighborhood

The NeighborhoodAmong the topics in this most recent spin around the Capital Region's online neighborhood: horse patootie, a jockey on a bike, A to Z, the Altamont Fair, mall food, a caterpillar, Western Mass, the ER, cupcake trucks, and photos.


Kevin says he "couldn't give a horse's patootie" about The Track.

Fun in Saratoga Dan almost crashed into star jockey Calvin Borel.

Silvia profiled her neighborhood -- A to Z.

Albany Jen was thinking about "what flavor connects me to Albany most."

The Exiles had a fun day at the Altamont Fair...

... but CAPOW came away disappointed.

Ellie had... excellent mall food?

Liz lunched at the At the Plaza Food Festival on the ESP.

Bennett went to the Cooperstown Farmer's Museum.

Sebastien spent a rainy day at MASS MoCA.

Drew hiked up Mt. Greylock.

Jackie came across a caterpillar that was preparing for its "metamorphizing sleep."

Albaniana went to the Clark and stopped at the Grafton Peace Pagoda.

Paula profiled the oldest house in Albany.

Christy had a bad experience at the ER.

People went back and forth at Tablehopping about the best local cupcake truck.

Carey and Rob "put some miles on our fair town" with the help of some friends.

Kristi wondered how much she should tip wedding vendors.

Albany John stopped by the Route 66 Smokehouse Wynantskill.

And two of Chuck's photos are winners at the New York State Fair!

Comments

Thank you for the link on this. It's interesting to see how we've gotten a lot of "yes, you should tip," but not a whole lot of people came in with hard numbers.

Thanks for the link-up, Mary and Greg... how cool is it that the two pictures that will be shown at the NYS Fair - the Nipper statue in Albany and the Coca-Cola painted facade in Schenectady - have Capital District ties? Almost makes me think I should have photographed the metal statue of Uncle Sam and tried for a trifecta...

http://www.chuckthewriter.com/8/nys3.jpg
http://www.chuckthewriter.com/8/nys6.jpg

Thanks for the linkage, folks!

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