Furniture Move Baby Steps…
I’ve reserved what we call the Y’all truck for the move. Careful and scaled drawings have convinced me a 10’ truck will suffice. It’ll be snug, but better that than too capacious a vehicle with items swimming around incurring damage. I’ve surveyed and shifted the storage unit in order to help make getting in and […]
Scope Creep 1.5
Of course, more rot has been found. It’s still not nearly as bad as we’d feared. And the poor roofer put his foot through the sheetrock into the studio below where he’s working. No injury, thank goodness. It’ll get fixed. The best part of all this was when Brian exclaimed in his choppy English, “Man […]
This Old Routine
Swedish folk duo, First Aid Kit’s “This Old Routine” resonates deeply and gets me thinking about my parents toward their later years together.
My Mother’s Constitutionally Protected Rights
I came across an article today (link below) about the preponderance of people over the age of 65 with some amount of mental decline, and guns in their homes. All of the imaginable statistics, sliced and diced, are included in this article. Come to find out, the neurologist who first diagnosed mom with Alzheimer’s, instructed […]
Scheduled Furniture Move!
While it’s still more than a month out, due to all the goings on in our life, I’ve scheduled mom’s furniture delivery for August 14th. The mover is scheduled to help once I get the truck to the AL community. The Community’s facility guy has been emailed asking if he has availability. I just need […]
Scope Creep 1.4
The deck is off the roof. This was no small undertaking: Remove everything from the deck. Remove glass railing system over two days. Unscrew every deck board possible. Toss off roof. Attempt to pry one nailed board up, and reconsider our strategy. Whip out skill saw and cut decking between each stringer. The stringers are […]
Christmas Wrapping Paper
Our ‘side project’ early this afternoon was to reclaim our atrium. It’s been in an altered state since the hardwood project started almost two years ago. My husband removed a cat ramp he built when we first moved in to allow the cats access from the upper deck into the atrium attic whose outside wall […]
Phone Bill & a Philosophical Moment
I paid mom’s apartment phone bill last week. The bill gives a detailed listing of all the calls she makes each month. When mom first moved to AL, she made upwards of 20 calls a month. This last bill detailed the one call she made in late May. It was to my cell phone (a […]
Toothbrush
Mom’s electric toothbrush arrived. I opened the package yesterday, and a sad series of thoughts ran through my head. They went something like this: I (or perhaps someone else) introduces mom to the toothbrush she has reasons for not wanting to use. You have to constantly plug it in. If its battery runs out what’s […]
Scope Creep 1.3
No such luck re minimal rot of the roof sheathing. There is a leak in the roofing membrane (somewhere) under the decking. Our contractor highly, highly recommends we replace the roofing NOW. To find the compromised bit of roofing (done by removing the roofing membrane until one doesn’t see further rot in the sheathing) is […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 