Next Trip…
I’m heading to the Island early Monday morning for most of 2.5 weeks. Tomorrow I will list a number of things on the Island centric FB boards, hoping to find new homes for, again, the kiln and wheel, a built-in open cabinet, and the darkroom enlargers. If I have luck, it will clear space to […]
Letter to a Dead Friend
Dear Bud, The friends you introduced to me all those years ago, at that long-closed music venue… The ones who got married, and were such an amazing couple, with such love, such talent, and graciousness oozing from every fiber of their being, both of them, are splitting up after at least a decade of marriage. […]
RIP Uncle D
My DH’s Uncle D passed early this morning while in recovery from heart surgery. Within the last couple of days he’d been doing really well, and so this is unexpected. Uncle D’s daughter wrote a lovely, heartfelt announcement on social media. Uncle D spent his last years in his daughter’s amazing, fulfilling, and loving care. […]
What Equals Grumpy?
While feeling better today, my right hand has come down with a case of the twangs. It feels a lot like carpel tunnel, which I had in 2010. I did very little requiring any sort of dexterity or strength yesterday, and did some distinctly gruntish sort of garden work today, but only for an hour. […]
Vaccine #2
I got vaccine #2 yesterday. After a crappy night’s sleep I am moving pretty slow. Could be from not a lot of sleep or the vaccine! My arm hurts like hell, my left knee is more offended than usual, and the long muscle of my left thigh feels like a plank. I have very few […]
Photos, Continued
I spent the morning going through, and trying to organize, the rest of the printed photos rescued from both my parent’s houses and dad’s darkroom. I confess to tossing a couple of hundred of people/places I don’t know and have zero way, now, of finding out about. Also on the cutting room floor went many […]
Call from My Uncle
My mom’s bother called this morning. It was an interesting conversation… He started by saying how he’d been intending to call for so long. He called me less than a month ago. After asking how we were a few times he launched into a reminiscence: He shared that he was rereading letters from my mom […]
Posthumous Advice
A friend called today. Someone we’ve known since we were itty bitty kids. He wanted to hear a friendly voice, and I was honored that he called me. Our conversation settled in on vermin. We are both dealing with squirrels, which he catches and drowns in a cistern. His experience is that as soon as […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 