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 […]
May 2022 Island Trip – Day 1
Upon my arrival I was greeted by waist and head-high grass. My AN had warned me… And he had knocked some of it down, but oh boy, if I mowed 4-hours a day for 6-days, that’d get it all under control 😂. I will strive for ‘ the up-side of not looking abandoned.’ Truth be […]
Exposure
We’ve had our first direct (that we know of) Covid exposure. It surrounded the construction project. Contact 1 exposure was 5/15. They tested positive on the 19th. Contact 2 was on the job 5/17-19, and they tested positive on the 20th. I worked closely with Contact 2 May 17th and 18th, and they stopped by […]
Two Years
Mom’s been gone for two years now. Quite the anniversary. It wasn’t a hard day. Reflective mostly, and I spent a lot of time in the garden over the weekend. Something mom derived great pleasure from. I have a picture of mom on my sewing table with her perennial garden in the foreground. While there […]
Photo Resignation
This morning I placed the pictures of mom that I scrapbooked into an album whose cover I created some years ago, That was enjoyable, fun even. Most of these pictures help me remember her as a vital, engaged, and often happy person. While I’m sure my mom struggled with some level of depression, my entire […]
A Comparison of Two Jobs
I’ve had this post cued up for over a year. It’s about the realization that my last two positions, for other businesses, helped me understand that I am not cut out to work for non-profits or small entrepreneurial businesses. I don’t mean ‘Oh, woe is me’ (tho there was a bit of that here and […]
Dad’s Birthday
Yesterday was my father’s birthday. He would have been 89. I thought a lot about him and missed him throughout the day, but wasn’t ever in a funk. Perhaps in part because the remodel was too distracting… Maybe that was dad’s plan! While not the best at finishing a project, dad was very knowledgable and […]
Housekeeper
Aside from a false start in February 2020 (for more than just Covid protocols) we’re starting with a housekeeper tomorrow for the first time in, probably, over 20-years. When we bought the house, the previous owner’s housekeeper stayed on briefly until she changed careers and went into real estate. I’m sure this job, for the […]
Driven to Scrapbook
We spent a number of hours on Sunday cleaning our studio and study. These spaces were especially impacted due to the structural construction done before to the upstairs kitchen work started. As I went through the study (my office), I was confronted with my own lack of follow-through regarding lots pictures and slides. Yesterday I […]
Notice
Monday evening my tenant texted saying she needed to move back to the mainland due to family concerns. She’s lost two siblings in the last 8-month, and is about to lose another, and yet another has dementia. We talked. She’s devastated. And she was worried about ‘breaking the lease.’ I told her not fret. I […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 