High School Reunion…

Our 40th high school reunion is next month 😳. When the call went out, on Facebook, looking for interest and help, I said I’d make a flier. This is easy for me. Left-handed, half asleep with jet lag, I can crank out a simple flier with a low opacity photographic background of the scene of […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 16

Closing up went easily, including setting up the timer for the soaker hose on the slope below Stella’s pad. I watched the connection carefully as we didn’t bring a pressure reducer for the setup (next time). Things looked good, and the slope will get water three mornings a week. Yesterday afternoon I took an old […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 15

Our AN was unable to locate the scrap metal person on the Island and so will load up the truck around 8 this evening. I had some hope that the rest of the metal could disappear without my participation, but not enough that I’m disappointed. On the other hand, the enlarger did get picked up […]

Dinner

Dinner was far more enjoyable than I imagined it was going to be. Our friend was, perhaps, more comfortable than usual in the presence of his sweetheart. While he held down a lot of the conversation, others were allowed to participate. Her brother is quite the ornithologist, and we sat in front of Stella for […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 14

I’m waiting for friends from the mainland to arrive for dinner, and confess to a fair amount of anxiety. We’ve known the couple since we were kids, tho like us, they were not a couple back in the day. They are about 10-years older than we are, and he is getting less and less socially […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 13

My first order of business was to go to town and slay a list that included the hardware store, some family birthday shopping, and the market for dinner shopping for company tomorrow evening. I did a new thing upon my return… I rewired a light fixture from a standard 110 plug to a twist lock […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 12

The dump was the happening place to be this morning. It took 45-minutes to get in and out. One single person checks people in, runs the scale, and takes payment. Another directs traffic when necessary and drives the heavy equipment. I’m fairly sure I’ve figured out the structural stuff in the lower barn. Forensics take […]

TV’s

Stella came with two screens. A smart 32ish” in the living room space, and a 20” in the bedroom, with a build-in DVD. They are both mounted on amazing articulating arms. We Never watch TV in the bedroom. The idea of a big screen in the living room is very attractive as a second screen […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 11

There is now an opening between the lower barn’s main space and the dark room! The good news is the electrical that’s in the way is ‘the end of the run’ for each circuit. This means we just have move the outlets in question to the east in each space, rather than figure out how […]

June/July 2021 Island Trip – Day 10

It’s been very windy all day, and instrumental in deciding that I can’t leave the awnings deployed when I/we’re not here. The only awning now open is on Stella’s protected west side. I’ve closed the roof vents to protect the actual vent lids, as they clatter in the wind (surely something that’s adjustable). The weather […]