May/June 2022 Island Trip – Days 12 & 13
Day 12: The two main accomplishments on day 12 were spraying the apple trees and cleaning the old redwood gutter across the entrance to the house, I’ve never seen so many tent caterpillars. It was horrendous. Insecticidal soap certainly seemed to do them in. The gutter wasn’t much better except it didn’t wiggle in huge […]
May/June 2022 Island Trip – Day 11
Today was better than yesterday. I was not compelled to nap for hours, my mood was better, I got a few things done, my neighbor the east and I got a dump run in, and met with my AN about a bunch of work he’s going to do for me: Replace the culvert under the […]
Medication Malaise
One of the antibiotics I have to take for diverticulitis is a pisser. We don’t get along at all. There’s no getting around taking it even though there’s a new treatment protocol… Which includes the cousin of an antibiotic I’m allergic to. So I sit here fighting: Depression Extreme reaction to things I can normally […]
May/June 2022 Island Trip – Day 10
Another day of little ambition due to the fatigue that accompanies diverticulitis. I worked on the house shower grout while in the shower, got a load of laundry into the drier and put away, despaired a little over what a piece of shit the washing machine is while not hearing from the appliance folks, had […]
May/June 2022 Island Trip – Days 7, 8 & 9
I did too much on Day 7. By the end of it, I had a temperature, and went to bed before 9PM. Some of the day’s highlights, if you want to call them that, were: Rolling out the BBQ and the fire pit. Going through the drier shed trimming out the rose that gets in […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 6
Today was a little thick… On the mainland front our General Contractor failed the sheetrock texture job his subcontractor did. In that moment I decided to stay on the Island. There is enough to do here to occupy me for some time. Then the window timeline slipped in a bad way. The window dudes told […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 5
I spent most of the day reading Donna Tarte’s “The Goldfinch.” At almost 800 pages, it’s a commitment, and I’m, obviously, hooked. My neighbor to the east came by, and we weeded Stella’s slope for an hour+. Weeding is always better with additional people. Not only does it go faster, but the conversation is always […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 4
The day included: Oyster (rather than mussel) picking. There’s an protected oyster lagoon that’s run by a research outfit from one of our state universities. We were in the tidal flats downstream from this lagoon. There are lots of escapees. Lunch was amazing. I have a pail of oysters for dinner tomorrow. I mowed for […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 3
The day started with another trip to town. Economy support are us! I now have the piece of sheet rock I need to finish up the lower barn, a hose to use around Stella that will reach all the way around her, and is flexible, a secondary sprayer for Not herbicides, insecticidal soap concentrate for […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 2
The weather forecast changed overnight. What a surprise!! No rain today, which let me continue with my grass taming endeavors. The day unfolded like this: I got about 75% of Stella’s exterior de-grubified. Pollen and dust (lots) settle into the edges of every trim piece, her gutters, window edges, etc. I was compelled to do […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 