2021 Feb/March Island Trip – Day 3
Today my AN, his son and I started processing the wood he took down last fall. 35 alders ranging in circumference from 6“ to 30”, and generally 10-15’ in length. We started with the bigger logs. Bucked to 18”. The guys estimate they weighed at least 150 pounds a piece. There were a lot of […]
2021 Feb/March Island Trip Day 2
I met with our AN yesterday to plot our work today. More on that later, if I can move when we finish up. Thank Gawd we are all in violent agreement about a lunch break! The day started early with my DH catching a ferry and returning to reality. One of the thing I like […]
2021 Feb/March Island Trip Day 1
It was a good and productive day. Those words don’t always live in the same space! Due to good planning, and early to bed last night, we were able to roll with the early morning, and even had a few minutes to relax before finishing packing up the car and truck. T’was nice. The drive […]
Launch Day
This morning we head to the Island, very early. Because I had the opportunity to do 6-hours of continuing education geared for small forest owners yesterday, most of the trip prep was done late last week. Groceries, packing the right clothes, and more importantly, the right books, etc. My intrepid husband stays one night and […]
Digital Photobook
I’m in the middle of creating a digital photo album of mom’s last 3+ years. I’m stuck… Mostly due to the limitations of the website. The photo upload process went well, but you can’t organize the pictures on the website. I’d like to create the album by subject: Outings, Friends, Family, Activities etc. The upload, […]
Misc…
The snow is 88% gone. It was in the mid-40’s today, and the sun came out enough to cast weak shadows. I love the snow, and it felt amazing to hunt for potting soil, in all the usual places, without returning indoors needing to defrost my hands. And while I have three different bagged soils, […]
Shnow!!!!!
Snowmageddon arrived early yesterday evening. We have a drift on our upper deck that’s deep enough (14”) that I want to give it a name. Accumulation, while due to wind is hard to judge, is approaching 10”. We spent an astonishing amount of time today watching the birds enjoying the suet feeder. My DH refilled […]
Next Island Trip
Is at the end of the month. I was hoping to get up earlier, and there are lots of little reasonable reasons to wait. One is that our conservation district plant-sale pick-up is before heading to the Island, and most of the plants I bought are for the property. This way I can plant when […]
Valentine’s Day / Kitchen Plans
My DH and I just made sexy plans for Valentine’s Day to lift a piece or two of flooring in the attic, and cut a small hole in the sheetrock in the upper back of our pantry in hot pursuit of the beam the holds up the wall between our kitchen and dining room… We’re […]
Letters
In sorting through my mom’s archives I’ve slowed down to sort/explore/enjoy what must be a 6’ high stack of correspondence dating back to 1979. Mom kept copies of the letters she sent to others, often stapling their letters to hers. Converting feet of paper into reams (500 sheets) of paper roughly amounts to more than […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 