Electronic Life Angst, and Analog Relief
My phone informed me today that 114 of my passwords had been compromised. I was unaware I had 114 online accounts… This is not a great way to start the day, nor do I think this happened overnight. None of these logins were my financial institutions, but this definitely altered the path of my day. […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 9
Deep hibernation in bed felt really good this morning. I slept well, with a brief 3:24AM moment to close the roof hatch. The frogs had gone to bed, and so why continue to invite the cool air in if there was no frog song to go with the cool air? My DH’s text showing me […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 8
LJG’s electrical is complete. We will have to manage/balance her internal loads carefully (make sure her heater and electric kettle aren’t on the same circuit for example) as she is hooked up to a 30 amp plug that’s run off a 20 amp circuit in the panel. ThankX dad!! 😂 We are good at juggling […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 7
My first post-Covid exposure antigen test was negative. With that news, I went to the drug store to pick up a couple more tests, vitamins in case I do end up needing to stay, and a 250-piece puzzle that fits on Stella’s pop-up table. After lunch, catching up on the dishes, a little puzzle time, […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 6 Part 2
We got the pad for LJG and the ‘road’ from the access road to Stella down to the barns re-established today. This allows one to back down from Stella, do a two-point turn on the access road, and then head down to the driveway nose first. I am thankful for this, as backing a vehicle […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 6 Part 1
And then everything changed… Well, the bottom line is we were possibly exposed to Covid Friday evening. We went to dinner with our neighbor. Yesterday morning she was told she was exposed on Thursday. She tested positive yesterday afternoon and had it confirmed at the hospital. Being 74 she didn’t want to mess around. We’ll start […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 5
It rained all night, and continued all day. This brought our LJG project to a halt. Our AN didn’t want to try and move her into place until it dries out. Sinking either our trucks or any of his equipment into the mud isn’t recommended. We are working on getting different insurance for all the […]
March 2024 II Trip – Day 4
Today is the 11th anniversary of my dad’s passing. I’m glad I was here. One of the last things my AN and I did today was move a piece from the metal pile to in front of the house for the new tenants. They want to use this piece as a big planter. Our AN […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 3
Many more hours, and much progress was made with our utility project, particularly after I rented a utility finder. We employed extra 12-gage wire, used to hook up the electrical fence to its energizer, fed it down Stella’s sewer pipe (with great difficulty) in order to discover the location of the sewer pipe in the […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 2
Our AN regraded the entire area between the north side of the upper barn, where LJG will live, to the edge of the garden below Stella, and then from the edge of the drive that leads to Stella down to the east. I have always been perfectly content with the way things were graded, and […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 