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 […]
Pictures
I’m populating a shared photo album so we can run a slide show during the celebration of life for my folks in September. I plumbed my Apple pictures, and moved onto other folders on my computer, starting with backups of my parent’s computers. Starting with dad’s, I ran into a couple of dozen photos of […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Day 13
The morning went swimmingly. A fellow stopped by to buy the jacks, which we were unable to use under Stella, and he helped me put the desk my grandfather built (my mom’s father, who I never met) into the back of my truck! Then a few hours later a woman and her husband stopped by […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Day 12
The heat backed off today. I split my focus between sewing and taking care of chores that will advance a smooth departure tomorrow, but nothing too strenuous. The hardest thing I did was untangle a 100’ hose that a gremlin or goblin must have gotten ahold of, because it was put away in an untangled […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Days 10 & 11
I’ve been in Irrigation Irritation hell for the last two days. How a valve/timer/filter setup sits quietly on a shelf for 7-months with no one even looking at with a sideways glance can ‘wakeup’ with stripped threads is beyond me. And the specific filter that needs replacing isn’t available on the Island 🙄. I even […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 