Friday Travels.
The GoodWill drop off went flawlessly. It took a while to empty the very full car. The Goodwill attendants took pity on me as I grabbed for an extra large box of books, and the box tore. The box weight was too much for the box to slide easily out of the car. I expressed […]
The Getty
I spoke with The Getty today. They want my mom’s archives. It’s a process, particularly since Southern California isn’t exactly ‘open,’ and The Getty is being extraordinary conservative regarding employees accessing campus. My contact had broad access via computer and was able to locate an entry on my mom and confirm with me that her […]
Storage
After our book-box exodus from mom’s storage unit, and spending a lot of time shelving and sorting books (lots more sorting to do), I was able to narrow the storage unit down to the following: 12-boxes of periodicals that will be stored at our place until they find a home. 9-boxes that will return to […]
Correspondence
As the book sorting is winding down, the next ‘project’ has organically presented itself: Sorting Correspondence. I found several boxes of letters inside of one of the boxes of books, and was immediately waylaid. Rather than read much in-depth, I sorted by ‘sender.’ Some of this was already done. One box was dedicated to several […]
Fast Island Trip
Today we took a (our) truck load of furniture up to the Island with the furniture we didn’t encompass into our home, and a few boxes. My husband asked me, tongue in cheek, if we’d ever get to a point where we’d stop moving furniture around from place to place. I asked, “Doesn’t everybody do […]
Regrets
The COVID-19 situation has benefitted me in one weird way. Due to mom’s AL community being off limits to all non-essential visitors (family included), I am otherwise alleviated of any regrets I might have had for not being able, or simply not, seeing her during the last 3+ months of her life. There were times […]
Treasures
I got stuck late yesterday afternoon as I resumed sorting books. While clearing an existing shelf, I found my mom’s archery scrap book. Girl was in the news!!! They’re so many clipped articles (well over a hundred) that she (or her mom) never finished making the scrap book. I’d like to finish this project in […]
More Boxes
We made another run to storage this afternoon, with the truck, and brought home another 40 boxes of books, author’s papers and clothes. I did not recall just how many boxes of books I packed… This makes 64, not including about a dozen boxes of periodicals. The periodicals are mags my folks were charter subscribers […]
Alpha Elvis
Our cat Sumi has always been a badass. He aggresses any feline interloper off the property, walks with swagger, supervises chickens while they free range, and brings us rodents and birds in droves to express his love. Enter Elvis at the beginning of the year. We kept the cats separated at first, and followed all […]
Coyote
This morning as I was walking towards my DH desk, motion to the left of the chicken coop caught my eye. It was a juvenile coyote, literally, dancing down the side of the chicken enclosure. I ran for the long-gun safe, and grabbed the air-rifle. Of course, by the time I got back, the pup […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 