June/July 2023 Island Trip – Day 6
Let me start at the conclusion of the day… We had a lovely late afternoon and evening with our tenants. We cooked, but had dinner at their place. They have the cool deck after all. Conversation ranged from politics, to our local wildlife (in evidence), to business ethics. The mosquitos drove us in despite repellent […]
June/July 2023 Island Trip – Day 5
My DH hunted and gathered after a late breakfast. Town was incredibly busy, being July 3rd in a tourist town. While he was gone I kept working on pricing for the estate sale. It’s well more than half done. My tenant and I pruned back fir branches from the west side of dad’s garden so […]
Irritations
The neighbor to the north asked me last night about the ‘No trespassing’ signs. I explained. Then this morning she came back with how another neighbor had asked her, so she was asking me so she could explain to them. Sounding like middle school?? THEN, she brought our neighbor to the east into it 12-hours […]
June/July 2023 Island Trip – Day 3
I slayed a batch of errands this morning including taking 6-pieces of stove pipe to the Island Asset Reallocation Emporium. It’s essentially a place you can take stuff you don’t want, and they sell it for cheap. Some of this pipe was, in its day, very high tech fancy stuff. None of it can be […]
June/July 2023 Island Trip – Day 2
One of my tenants is working on their French, In my book project, I found six small volumes in French and ask them if they’d like the books. They did! My father made duffle bags for sailing. I have two of them and thought my sailing tenants might enjoy using them. After making sure that […]
June/July 2023 Island Trip – Day 1
The ferry ran like clock work this afternoon. That is seldom a given these days. Next to me in line was a sweet old ford tractor, and once on board, I had an opportunity to chat with the tractor owner. Not only does he field mow (!), but he knew who I was after I […]
Books
1835 and counting… I’m close to half done entering the books into the library app I’m using. Both my DH and I are editing books from our personal collections, to get real with ourselves, make shelf space, and not afflict our children too terribly much down the road 😏. Though, that said, there will be […]
Upper Barn
My tenants are interested in renting the upper barn for part of their ever expanding business adventures. They offered me way too much money for it, plus improvements. We agreed to talk over the weekend, including money. I am unable to find comps on any of the islands, and am unwilling to take advantage of […]
Museum Exhibit Catalogues
I’m going through the box of catalogues my folks saved, over a 50-year period, trying to figure out if my mom edited any of them. Unlike books, the editor isn’t mentioned. I can make cuts by (very early) date, and can assume she did edit catalogues based on which museum and curator is involved. The […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 