New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 3
Well, we did stay up to see in the New Year, promptly went to bed, and, you guessed it, slept in again 😂. Leftover prawns and Parmesan omelets fueled us up for another day of getting things done. Our AN and his treasure of a wife stopped over for a visit before we launched into […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 2
As is our usual pattern when entertaining, we stayed up very late after our friend left, and then slept in equally late 😂. Tho not feeling urgent about accomplishing lots of things, we did, with many ThankX to my DH (the patient one) for swapping out both the exterior ‘prison yard’ light at the east […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 1
We had an easy trip up. My DH dropped his car at the mainland ferry parking and joined me in the truck for the ride over. The afternoon was easy, yet we got some good stuff done! We emptied the drier shed of all our belongings except for a vise, which my DH will remove […]
Shelf – I
One of the gifts our son-in-laws gave us was to help my DH move mom’s oak book case from the garage into the studio. Today we took the shrink wrap off the shelf, replaced the floor protectors (all 8 of them), micro-remove, probably, four decades of spider webbing from the bottom and back of the […]
And it’s a Wrap!
Well, almost… The prep for Christmas will be finished after wrapping two more little things for the littlest ones, and bottling this year’s cordial! The cordial is absolutely wonderful. Without getting too purple in my prose… Its sweetness is perfectly tempered by the forward flavors of clove and cinnamon that linger, along with the plum, […]
MIL’s Birthday!
Late this morning we picked up my step-daughter, fetched my MIL, and had a delightful lunch at a historic pub on the island my MIL lives on. Fortunately, her island is accessible by a bridge 😏. MIL opened and enjoyed her gifts, which included an abundance of chocolate (a fav), some really nice coffee, and […]
Empath
I have mentioned that I am an empath. A strong one. It came to me yesterday why this falling out with the former tenants hit me so significantly. More than just suddenly having a friendship you thought you had suddenly hitting the rails… It’s because I didn’t see it coming. The empath side of me […]
Various…
The cashier’s check sent to the former tenants for a partial deposit reimbursement finally cleared the bank on the 6th. They received the check, and accounting showing why they didn’t receive a full refund, on the 27th, within my legal limits to deliver both. It was a long 9-days somehow. Cashing a partial deposit refund […]
House Plant Management
Yesterday and today were repotting days. The first plant was a Hoya owned by my late-former MIL. Her husband built a lovely stand for it, which the Hoya has thoroughly embraced over the years. The stand is about as tall as I am. I took one of the stays off the stand to remove the […]
Peopleing
Today my DH and I went to do some Christmas shopping in the second town south from us. After a stop at my second favorite mixed media shop (where he was very patient, and interested in the shop’s offerings), we ventured to the town’s core. There are numerous lovely, independently owned businesses to explore. Our […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 