July 2026 Island Trip – Day 3
Today was busy but simple. I: Got the rest of the rider mowing done. There’s some push mowing to do around the house and the east entrance to the property. It should take about an hour. An improvement over today’s 3.5 hours. My neighbor to the east walked over (while I was mowing), and we […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 2
At some point in the night I started dreaming about a beep, high-pitched. The dream wrapped itself around the noise. Don’t ask what the dream, was about 😂. At beep #6 I opened my eyes and realized it was the smoke detector. Why, WHY do those fuckers lose their battery power in the middle of […]
July 2026 Island Trip – Day 1
On our drive to the ferry, I circled back online with an Island friend who I thought might know one of Tim’s friends, because Tim’s friend lives on his boat, and my friend used to. Sure enough, I hit gold! Research is a good skill 😏. So now me and Tim’s friend have swapped phone […]
Text Foible
This afternoon I hung two fun garden centric signs in the atrium. One from my eldest (left), and one from Tim (right). My DH was in a meeting, so I texted the image to him. Or so I thought! Turned out I botched the third letter of his name, hit send, and it went to […]
Pictures
I’m populating a shared photo album so we can run a slide show during the celebration of life for my folks in September. I plumbed my Apple pictures, and moved onto other folders on my computer, starting with backups of my parent’s computers. Starting with dad’s, I ran into a couple of dozen photos of […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Day 13
The morning went swimmingly. A fellow stopped by to buy the jacks, which we were unable to use under Stella, and he helped me put the desk my grandfather built (my mom’s father, who I never met) into the back of my truck! Then a few hours later a woman and her husband stopped by […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Day 12
The heat backed off today. I split my focus between sewing and taking care of chores that will advance a smooth departure tomorrow, but nothing too strenuous. The hardest thing I did was untangle a 100’ hose that a gremlin or goblin must have gotten ahold of, because it was put away in an untangled […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Days 10 & 11
I’ve been in Irrigation Irritation hell for the last two days. How a valve/timer/filter setup sits quietly on a shelf for 7-months with no one even looking at with a sideways glance can ‘wakeup’ with stripped threads is beyond me. And the specific filter that needs replacing isn’t available on the Island 🙄. I even […]
June 2026 Island Trip – Day 9
Had an OK day: Headed to town for a short shopping trip, which I didn’t finish after not finding a small simple cutting board at two places, and then not finding a parking place to try the third retail establishment. At that point all I wanted to do was go home 😂. Embarked on setting […]
