August 2021 Trip – T-Minus Half a Day
I head out tomorrow morning for a 4-night stay on the Island. My 40th high school reunion is over this weekend. Fitting in time for some business, lighting improvements in the lower barn, checking on the apples and plums, probable mowing (rain makes the grass grow), and dinner with Tim will fill the rest of […]
Visitors
Friends left this morning after a four night stay. They are on a three state round-trip road-trip in their hot rod. This is a car that makes you jump when it starts should you not be expecting the roar. I’ve known her for more than 36-years. He is her third and best husband. It was […]
A Humming Bird Named “Asshole”
I attached a birch branch to a corner of our upper deck railing for a vining annual to grow on. The plant happily took over the branch until it drowned when its pot stopped draining. Alas. I swapped out the pot, added a another plant, and left the birch branch in place. We have two […]
Reclamation!
I’ve mentioned more than once how my parent’s belongings filled up a tremendous amount of cubic in our home, and the relief I felt at reclaiming one guess bedroom, albeit one of its walls serves as a library. We have company coming in for the weekend, which has sent me on a moderate cobweb and […]
Septic…
Our mainland septic system tossed us a mini worry today. My nose told me something was up! I was heading downstairs and smelled something stinky. Not exactly sewage, but not pleasant either (grey water is most odiferous). My first stop was the downstairs bathroom where indeed there was water on the floor. I flushed the […]
Transparency in Piggyback Stress
It took more than a year after my mother’s death to allow these thoughts to run through my head in full sentences: Mom’s illness was incredibly stressful. This doesn’t need further parsing. After my dad died, the weight of the consequences of her illness, all of them, fell to me, a natural outcome as her […]
First World Let Down
I’ve spent the last 5-days hustling our garage and kitchen getting ready for our new fridge. This is the first element of the kitchen redo. One orders appliances, well everything really, as far in advance of the project (any project) as possible these days… Covid kinda wiped out the world’s supply chain. I placed the […]
Threads
We’re trying a new recycling service for 6-months called Ridwell. They pickup every other week, taking plastic ‘films’ of many description that regular recycling won’t accept, light bulbs, batteries, ‘threads,’ and a revolving alternate. We are flabbergasted at how much plastic we no longer throw out. I felt guilty last time I was on the […]
Touching Base with an Old Friend of My Parents
I made contact with the person I wasn’t able to see on the Island earlier this month due to flakey ferries. We had a Zoom call this morning. I’ve known him since I was, probably, a tween. He was always a grownup in my eyes, and then my folks and his folks became fast friends […]
Sweet Chat with My Uncle
My uncle called me twice yesterday, in quick succession. I was in the middle of both fluorescent to LED fixture and bulb conversion choices, and couldn’t take his call. I called him back this evening and had an engaging conversation. He told me about an intern who’s going to start working with him on his […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 