March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 6 Part 2
We got the pad for LJG and the ‘road’ from the access road to Stella down to the barns re-established today. This allows one to back down from Stella, do a two-point turn on the access road, and then head down to the driveway nose first. I am thankful for this, as backing a vehicle […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 6 Part 1
And then everything changed… Well, the bottom line is we were possibly exposed to Covid Friday evening. We went to dinner with our neighbor. Yesterday morning she was told she was exposed on Thursday. She tested positive yesterday afternoon and had it confirmed at the hospital. Being 74 she didn’t want to mess around. We’ll start […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 5
It rained all night, and continued all day. This brought our LJG project to a halt. Our AN didn’t want to try and move her into place until it dries out. Sinking either our trucks or any of his equipment into the mud isn’t recommended. We are working on getting different insurance for all the […]
March 2024 II Trip – Day 4
Today is the 11th anniversary of my dad’s passing. I’m glad I was here. One of the last things my AN and I did today was move a piece from the metal pile to in front of the house for the new tenants. They want to use this piece as a big planter. Our AN […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 3
Many more hours, and much progress was made with our utility project, particularly after I rented a utility finder. We employed extra 12-gage wire, used to hook up the electrical fence to its energizer, fed it down Stella’s sewer pipe (with great difficulty) in order to discover the location of the sewer pipe in the […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 2
Our AN regraded the entire area between the north side of the upper barn, where LJG will live, to the edge of the garden below Stella, and then from the edge of the drive that leads to Stella down to the east. I have always been perfectly content with the way things were graded, and […]
March 2024 II Island Trip – Day 1
We got here. That’s the big news! The trailer, Lady Jane Grey (LJG) is temporarily parked in Stella’s meadow, which we may have to rename 😏. Our AN and his sweet wife came over this afternoon to consult and plot. The plan start tomorrow morning. We planned to go out to dinner this evening for […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Day 6
A few days late… Knowing I was coming right back, it was easy to scoot out. I left the fridge on with the remaining food, as well as my stash of art supplies that go back and forth with me, my camera and Stella’s Bible. The Bible is a 4” three ring binder with every […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Days 4 & 5
The tenants expressed interest in using the drier/tool shed as a practice space for his brass horn studio. I was game as long as we discussed some sort of accommodation for heating the leaky structure during the colder months. I set about removing the encroaching rose from the inside of the building, and from the […]
March 2024 Island Trip – Day 3
I stopped into the county assessors office to ask them to help me understand why the properties overall value, for tax purposes, increased 35%. The gal who helped me was extraordinarily thorough. Like, grad school level explanation of all the moving parts, many of which I didn’t know about. I left with their annual Statement […]
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