July 2026 Island Trip – Day 8
I spent time writing more notes on the sub-floor of the trailer for our general contractor before heading out this afternoon. And on paper too. There’s too much context to impart should this project take place when we’re not there. The materials are loaded in the trailer along with some very specialized tools and a […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 7
Rug extraction is finally done. Well, it’s as done as I can get it. Im gonna estimate 97%. What ever I couldn’t effectively do, our general contractor will do. And speaking of our contractor… After letting our buddy know (who said he could do the work this week), that I was going to request to […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 6
I spent hours in the lower barn today getting real about things. This was brought about as I cleared and cleaned surfaces. I posted a number of items on the Island’s ‘Buy Nothing’ board. No nibbles yet, and I’m determined, should no one need/want the items I posted, to move them along via other means. […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 5
It was another day of doing all the things. Laundry took some management. The washer/dryer is teeny (an RV model that lives in the lower barn). It takes an hour to run a wash load. For various reasons, not all of them clothing, I had four loads. And twice the washer didn’t start when I […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 4
The mowing is officially done for this trip, including cutting what is now the croquet pitch in Stella’s meadow a lot shorter so the balls don’t get bogged down in the grass. I even used the blower to move the drifts of trimmings off the ‘pitch.’ My DH got the irrigation at the house up […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 3
Today was busy but simple. I: We’re making a frozen GF pizza for dinner (DH is on deck 😏). This is something we excel at. Could probably write a fun article about our process when everything else is done 😜. If I think of it, I’ll update this post with a picture of what’s going […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 2
At some point in the night I started dreaming about a beep, high-pitched. The dream wrapped itself around the noise. Don’t ask what the dream, was about 😂. At beep #6 I opened my eyes and realized it was the smoke detector. Why, WHY do those fuckers lose their battery power in the middle of […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 1
On our drive to the ferry, I circled back online with an Island friend who I thought might know one of Tim’s friends, because Tim’s friend lives on his boat, and my friend used to. Sure enough, I hit gold! Research is a good skill 😏. So now me and Tim’s friend have swapped phone […]
Text Foible
This afternoon I hung two fun garden centric signs in the atrium. One from my eldest (left), and one from Tim (right). My DH was in a meeting, so I texted the image to him. Or so I thought! Turned out I botched the third letter of his name, hit send, and it went to […]
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