March 2024 Island Trip – Day 6
A few days late… Knowing I was coming right back, it was easy to scoot out. I left the fridge on with the remaining food, as well as my stash of art supplies that go back and forth with me, my camera and Stella’s Bible. The Bible is a 4” three ring binder with every […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Days 4 & 5
The tenants expressed interest in using the drier/tool shed as a practice space for his brass horn studio. I was game as long as we discussed some sort of accommodation for heating the leaky structure during the colder months. I set about removing the encroaching rose from the inside of the building, and from the […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Day 3
I stopped into the county assessors office to ask them to help me understand why the properties overall value, for tax purposes, increased 35%. The gal who helped me was extraordinarily thorough. Like, grad school level explanation of all the moving parts, many of which I didn’t know about. I left with their annual Statement […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Day 2
It was a people intense day: A beekeeper that the tenants met came out this morning to see if the property was a good place for one of his hives. It is. This came about some time ago when the tenants went to a seed swap at the grange where they met Scott. I am […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Day 1
The day did not start off optimally with the new trailer once again separating from it’s hitch. This time I was a mile from home and my DH came to my rescue. We got back to the cul de sac, and I managed to get to the ferry and keep my reservation. Further, the gent […]
Crazy Trailer People!
It’s been a fun/interesting weekend. We went to a town over the mountain pass yesterday to look at a 20’ 1972 Aristocrat Land Liner for an office, as well as guest accommodations, on the Island for my DH. We’ve been on the prowl for something to fill this need for a while. This was the […]
On a personal note…
After a weekend of doing far, far too much, my lower back threw me a curve ball Sunday night. I couldn’t walk for a spell. I have given birth three times, and surfed kidney stones. There is little that sends me around a bend in terms of pain. This did. A dining room chair was […]
Lois Continued
On Saturday we called the PD of the island Lois lives on and found out the muddy encounter took place on 1/30. The PD put in another Driver Retest request with the state after responding to the muddy encounter. The timing is kind of amazing. If this had happened two days later, the police would […]
A Day with Lois
We spent most of five hours today with my mother in law, Lois. My DH has scheduled a day off every, more or less, three weeks to spend with her. Today was the first. Lois has dementia, which is in an odd way easier for her and my DH to manage because she is willing […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 