Traffic Light!

That's right, Van Brunt Street in Red Hook just got it's very first traffic light. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't just witnessed it with my very own two, marginally sighted, eyes.
It's on the intersection of Van Brunt and Bowne streets. I supposed it has been put in to help control the flow of traffic down Bowne Street, and onto the ramps for the BQE, but if you've ever driven around Red Hook, you might be skeptical (as I am) about the necessity of said traffic light.
I know that there are days when trucks abound on Van Brunt, and double-parking or construction has slowed the street to one-lane heaven, but to me that's part of the beauty of Red Hook.
It's slow, and who cares?

anyhow. Working from home some days allows me to witness my neighborhood in its daylight beauty, I hear the kids at recess playing games, inevitable screaming in delight or horror. who knows. I don't remember the playground eliciting shrieks from my own childhood, but I also don't have the best memory, so perhaps I did indeed scream with rapture during four-square games.

So tomorrow is our first official softball scrimmage, and I have to dorkily admit that I am uber-excited or some such variation of excited that would communicate extreme excitment. I suppose in my heart of hearts I am screaming with delight about softball, much as the small children across the street are right now as they drag each other across the playground, each with one foot in a plastic hula hoop....
what? seriously, that is what they are doing right now. Is this some official game that I am unaware of? In watching them, I can see that the exercise might be trying to elicit some type of teamwork, but it seems only to be causing bodily harm.
good luck to them.
and good luck to my softball team tomorrow.

xo
alyce