This evening my spouse and I were watching a documentary on the building of the Acropolis in Greece, really amazing. And it occurred to me that we also enjoyed two historical experiences today.
First we went to Ziegler's to see about getting some shades for the windows in our breakfast nook. They are lovely big windows and I enjoy watching the birds at our bird feeders but at this time of year the morning sun comes in our east facing window and blinds us as we have breakfast. I knew that Zeigler's had been around for a long time because they did the window treatments in my house on Tonkel Road about 40 years ago, but they have been in business longer that that - 78 years according to a sign in their showroom. We found exactly what we wanted and a nice young man named Michael is coming tomorrow to measure and finalize the details. I insisted on very white shades to go with our white woodwork. The name of the color we ended up with is called Picket Fence. That reminded me of Tom Sawyer, a bit of literary history.
After that exciting visit to an historical place we had lunch at the original downtown Coney Island. While sitting there waiting for my chili dogs (yes plural, you can't eat just one) I saw their sign that said they have been in business since 1914. 111 years! That's some history.
Here is a before picture of our breakfast nook after the sun was higher in the sky. Plan on seeing an after picture sometime soon.
I do not make a habit of taking pictures of food so I can't show you the coney dogs. They were soooo good.
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