by Peggy Robin
Shop local at the third annual Cleveland Park Winter Market.
Hear holiday tunes by saxophonist Nathaniel Gillian starting around 3pm.
For more information please visit:
City Ridge
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by Peggy Robin
Join us for our 10th Annual Holiday Tree Lighting!
I’ve seen it a number of times in the past, but now I have a way to receive a text alert whenever it’s a good night for viewing.
Tonight’s the night! Here’s the notice from “Spot the Station”:
Time: Sat Nov 18 5:36 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 83°, Appears: 10° above SW, Disappears: 13° above NE
And the forecast is for clear skies: 5:00 pm Clear 52° Cloud Cover 0% Wind NNW 11 mph Humidity 40% Rain Amount 0 in
I’ll be out there looking up!
I recommend getting the app on your smartphone. Open your App Store, search for “Spot the Station,” download for free, and sign up.
You can also sign up on your computer – go to https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/signup.cfm - but the location finder does not work very well for people who live in Cleveland Park. Let me explain:
If you sign up on your computer, as I did, right after a friend emailed me about it (thanks, Sue, for the tip!), you will be prompted to enter your state and city. You select DC from the list of states (yes, DC is listed as a state, just as we deserve to be!) and then there’s another drop-down menu for all the towns in that state. For DC there are 100 “towns” listed. That’s a lot of towns, isn’t it? You would think one of them would be the town of Cleveland Park. But no, it’s not among the locations offered.
Here are all the “towns” offered within a few miles of Cleveland Park (going as far north as Chevy Chase Circle and as far south as Dupont Circle). Note that some of them seem to be garbled versions of actual places:
Archbold Parkway (Maybe they mean Glover-Archbold Park? That’s the only thing that comes up on Google Maps)
Battery Kemble Park
Beach Parkway (I’m guessing they mean Beach Drive)
Chevy Chase Circle
Curb Parking (Who knows how this got in there? An A.I.
mistake?)
Dalecarlia Parkway
Dumbarton Oaks Park
Dupont Circle
Fort Bayard Park
Fort Reno Park
Francis G. Newlands Park (Google Maps puts the pin down at
Chevy Chase Circle – but that’s already listed, see above. Francis G. Newlands
WAS the name on the fountain, until, by general consensus that he was unworthy of
the honor, the plaque was removed.)
Glover Parkway (Could this be another reference to Glover-Archbold
Park?)
Klingle Valley Parkway
Melvin Hazin Park (It’s actually spelled “Hazen”)
National Zoo
Normanstone Parkway
Old Stone House
Pinehurst Parkway (Google Maps says they mean the Pinehurst
Tributary of Rock Creek)
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
Rock Creek Park
Soapstone Valley
Tenley Circle
Ward Circle
Woodley Park
The odd part is, if you choose Maryland as your state, you get a drop-down menu of 60 towns and a few parks, from Annapolis to Westminster, all spelled correctly – and no oddities, like that “Curb Parking” option on the DC menu.
The phone app, on the other hand, is free of this nonsense. You don’t have to choose your neighborhood; you simply let the app access your GPS and it puts down a pinpoint on your address.
While you are looking up at the ISS, you can also see how we down here on earth look to the people up there. Go here: https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/
I hope the ISS crew gets a notification of how many people (like me!) are tracking them as they fly through space!
Peggy Robin
Curb Parking, District of Columbia 20008
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Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland ParkListserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
· 60+ Artisans & Exhibitors (view the vendor list here) -
start your shopping for unique gifts.
· Six incredible acts on
the Main Stage, fueled by
Washington Gas. MC'd by Drew of Petworth News! Learn more about the Main Stage
line-up here.
· An adorable
Dog Show, presented by District Vet, with great prizes to
local businesses. It isn't too late to register – sign up here.
· An amazing day of movement, music, and dancing in the Kids' Zone,
presented by Tara Hoot! Your kids will love this year's Kids' Stage line-up,
which includes Mr. Rob, Teatro de la Luna, and more. Check out the performers here.
· Activities all day in our Activity Tent: Join us from 11
AM-2 PM to decorate
a plant pot and plant a seed (sponsored by Petworth Ace
Hardware) and from 2 PM - 4 PM to Create
Your Own Character Zine with An Open Book Foundation.
· Fabulous specials
from local Petworth businesses – valid only the day of the
festival (check out their
deals here).
But wait, there's MORE! This year, we're excited to have an amazing line-up of FREE pre-festival family fun! Join Petworth Peanuts at 8am for a Kids Fun Run at Sherman Circle (for ages 3-10), enjoy a free Stroller Strides class with FIT4MOM DC at 9am, and then hop over to Yoga for Movers and Shakers with Lighthouse Yoga at 10am on the Petworth Playground.
Petworth Main Street and the CelebratePetworth Team
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The Gene Pool |
by Peggy Robin
Enjoy a FREE Holiday concert with the United States Navy Band
Let's start with my favorite local blogger, Popville:
by Peggy Robin
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The "Get Out!" event of the week is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Thursdays.
by Peggy Robin