July 2025 Island Trip – Day 4
The east field took about an hour to complete this morning. I’m glad to have gotten to it before the day warmed up, and while there was a breeze about. You can tell where the leach field for the septic is. The grass over it was 18” long and dark green. It’s the best looking […]
July 2025 Island Trip – Day 3
I got up on time (!), and made a lamb stew in the crockpot. A trip to town yielded a few things including some Malbec for the stew. I ran into neighbors at the grocery and had a great chat. This is one of the things I love about the Island. Taking a pause for […]
July 2025 Island Trip – Day 2
Today started later than I intended, but then last night lasted longer than planned. I spent time catching up on writing and plotting. This evening will involve an earlier bedtime. It took longer than I expected, after talking to Tim on the phone, to unhook and load Stella’s propane tanks, breakdown more boxes than I […]
July 2025 Island Trip – Day 1
Tim bowed out of being my body guard at the Andy Grammer show siting mobility wonkiness. And it’s just as well as parking was challenging, and the round trip stroll was at least a mile, with significant elevation changes, from where I was directed to leave the truck to the venue, over not a lot […]
Battery
This morning the truck gave me the tell-tale ‘click-click-click’ sound when I tried to start it. 🙄. When trying to start it at the end of May, it red-lined. No clicks. The AAA tech ran and then reran diagnostics after we let the truck run for 10-minutes, and the battery checked out. This time, with […]
Small Victories!
We treated ourselves to motorized cellular shades for the upper windows (12-foot ceiling) in our living room at the conclusion of our kitchen remodel. They stay open June through early October, and then are closed. No daily up and down. So imagine my surprise when I went to raise them, via remote, this spring and […]
When Frogs Fly
Here’s a pic of my class quilt. It’s silly, ridiculous even, fun, whimsical, and just what I wanted it to be! There’s beading, starfish, pennants, necklaces, a crab, ribbon grasses, and more. This piece will likely live in Stella. It’s about 38” by 34”. It was a joy to make, and collaborate on with my […]
June 2025 Island Trip – Day 14
The ferry running late got me to our Mainland home by 4PM. It was an easy departure except for feeling really sad as I left. Unloading the truck went swiftly with my DH’s help, and a shallow nap didn’t accomplish much except to screw up my sleep 😏. So today I’m tired. It’s drizzling enough […]
June 2025 Island Trip – Day 13
The line trimming got done. Additional mowing was accomplished in areas where Miguel doesn’t mow, the driveway was ‘groomed’ with the mower deck lowered, in hopes that the tenants will comply with my edict that they drive on the driveway, rather than next to the driveway… Interesting to note that yesterday I observed the tenant’s […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 