Driers and Mice etc.
No, mice are not in the drier, thank goodness. But last weekend after a rep from our gas company, who was out to swap some piece of our meter, confirmed that our brand new drier was indeed spewing un-combusted natural gas out of its vent and onto our front walk, I called the company I […]
Boxes Retired
Well, at least on the mainland… I have everything of my parents, that I’m keeping, out of boxes. The items may not be in ideal places, or organized perfectly, but the cardboard is no longer part of the equation. I am able to be a little more ruthless in editing. Just because mom kept a […]
Dear Mom & Dad,
I took your great grandson on a walk today. A half mile from home it started to rain. He was delighted! Once home we brought firewood in, and he really wanted me to build the fire in the stove right away. So, on the first functional day of fall, we turned on the furnace, and […]
Milestone
I hit a milestone in both the estate business conclusion and the ‘feels’ today when my mom’s final tax refund arrived in the mail. It brought me up short in a way I didn’t expect. Administratively, I’ve been muttering to myself, ‘Where the F is this refund… Mailed (no, couldn’t e-file) it off four months […]
Canning!
Since returning from the Island, with amazing amounts of plums and apples, I’ve been ‘puttin’ food by.’ We also have 4-half gallon Mason jars sitting in the downstairs pantry brewing a vodka based plum cordial. This year’s innovation is whole cloves in addition to cinnamon, lemon, ginger, and just enough sugar to call it a […]
Apple Integration
So, 2.5 years after switching my main computer from a very tired PC laptop to an Apple laptop, I finally finished dealing with transferring my email to the Mac. It was all about an antique Window’s email file not wanting to transfer over to the Mac. Long story short, all of my archived email is […]
Address Books
My uncle called me Friday. I let the call go to voice mail in order to center myself. I knew he’d call again! 🙃 When he did, he exclaimed he’d tried to call 3-4 times before…. Not. Long conversation short he let me know a cousin in FL had photos that were destined to head […]
August 2021 Island Trip – Day 13
I picked more apples before bringing in the orchard ladder and ‘picker.’ The picker is a basket of sorts on a long pole. On one side of the basket (7-8” in diameter) the metal edges extend up and then bend toward the inside of the basket so you can get these bent bits around fruit, […]
August 2021 Island Stay – Day 12
After a repeat of yesterday’s lazy morning, we: Decided the wheelbarrow was worth putting a few minutes of labor into as well as a couple of washers and screws to hold it together. We will also treat it to a solid tire. There are just some things that one doesn’t need to do anymore… Reinflating […]
August 2021 Island Trip – Day 11
We did indeed stay up way too late, slept in, had a farmer’s breakfast after which my DH took a long deserved nap. I puttered, taking care of small bits and pieces in the barns. We found our crab at the port, fresh out of the pot. It was too hot to take home, and […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 