December 2022 Island Trip – Day 3
Using the truck as a wheelbarrow, I finished getting all the dead lumber off the east side of the wood shed, and onto the burn pile. This after a tea with the tenants, who seem delightfully invested in my beverage comforts!! After cleaning up the remainder of the dead lumber and nettle roots from the […]
December 2022 Island Trip – Day 2
I slept well last night. Stella’s (coil) mattress is brand new and tells us we need to replace our old early model space-aged foam mattress. It came with a ‘declining’ Simon’s 30-year warranty about 21-years ago. If we made a claim, it’d eat 8-months of our lives and cough up $57.98. I started the day […]
December 2022 Trip – Day 1
The drive up oscillated between very foggy and brilliantly sunny. My timing was such that I was able to stop at a hardware store and pick up heat tape for Stella’s water line should we need it. The forecast looks OK while we’re here, and seeing as how things can be unpredictable, I thought ‘why […]
December 2022 Island Trip. – Day 1 – Prelaunch
Everything except the cooler is packed. I need to decide what shoes to wear up, and whether to take a ‘nice’ coat of some description. Nice means the garment has no paint or pitch on it. The weather is supposed to be cold: 20’s, 30’s, low 40’s. I’d load up the truck now, but it’s […]
Legacy Work
Legacy Work is working with your late loved one’s papers, artifacts, history etc… Like pulling family photos together, cataloging your loved one’s art or other collections, archives, or, like today, all but finishing cataloging my mom’s poetry. I’m adding the electronic copies to the spreadsheet, having gotten all the loose paper versions entered. There are […]
The End of Covid Precautions in Our State
I discovered the above in a letter from our Master Gardener Coordinator saying our Land Grant University, who we operate under, is following the state in cancelling all precautions re Covid protocols. I am not happy. Below is what I wrote to the coordinator. Dear Coordinator, With the university’s choice, forced perhaps, of dropping all […]
Moving Back In
Enough has been accomplished at our mainland home (vent cleaning and carpet install) project that we’ve begun moving back in to the rest of the house! This flurry of activity creates its own chaos as we work on trimming things down: The bin of ski gear we haven’t used in over 15-years, the self-inflating camping […]
Mon & Dad’s Mail
It’s a rare day anymore that we get more mail for my folks than for us, but it still happens from time to time. At this point I have the head space to call the organizations still sending mail and ask them to remove my parent’s names from their solicitation lists. My big push to […]
November 2022 Island Trip – Days 3 & 4
All the hours got used up… And not all the things got done. This is a repeated theme on the Island… Day 3: Day 4:
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 