Thursday

Today is Thursday and for a change there is nothing exiting planned for the day. But who knows!

We plan to clean house, do a little furniture rearranging and more importantly I already started to clean out some drawers and closets.

This clean up involves going over not needed clothing and give them away for charity. This is not a small task. I already have two large plastic bags filled with things no longer needed.

In the past I tried to give away stuff to friends but not everything was the right size or the correct style so I got stuck with the leftovers. I decided that now is the time to really clean house.

Probably by the time we catalog everything and put them in bags it will be sometime in the afternoon and then we will drive over to the Salvation Army Thrift Shop and drop them off. That is the simplest way of doing this thing.

They are very appreciative, they give paper receipts and this is tax deductible. This last is not the most important thing but it is a very useable fact.

This is now a few hours later and I am proud to say that we accomplished what we set out to do.

Something else.

It is a darn shame that in a big city like New York is with its mélange of different nationalities one can not find a Hungarian butcher or meat store. There was one in Manhattan but it burned down some years ago and was never reopened again.

There are several Russian stores where one can find good cold cuts but none is as good as the real stuff I like. Well, who needs them. Today we visited a store where they speak Hungarian and sell all the good stuff we all like. The fact that it is a Romanian store is not important because they compensate that with the good Hungarian flavors.

The interesting thing is that the guys behind the counter are mostly Hispanic but they all understand and respond in Hungarian when that is how one orders. Unfortunately we went in there hungry and being such a way we ordered everything under the sun. Spent a fortune but at the end had a great dinner at home with the cold cuts, szalonna (bacon) and toportyu (crackling) and their fantastic bread.

And I almost forgot the beer that accompanied this scrumptious (and low calorie) dinner.