April 15, 2023             I first met Lollie the person sometime in my early teaching career at a grading, and I thought she seemed cool.  Lollie the person is a small woman with an enormous heart, with a quirky way of being and dress, stylish but not intimidating. Lollie and I talked about getting my…

The end of the trip is always a sad time for me…but usually I am also happy to get home. This year we never left home, well, except to go to the hardware store, and this year we have a new space to use, so it is a very different trip. Here’s a bunch of…

Days: 9, 10, and 11 (August 9, 10 , 11, 2022? Maybe?) It is getting pretty slow and weird and hot here, but we are still taking steps, trying to move things forward, and using many, many screws. Here’s a shot of sometime I think yesterday: Lessons Learned: Wow, this is hard work, and we…

Days:  7 & 8, August (I have lost track of the days…maybe the 8th day of work? or the 7th? And the 8th day of the month? Which makes the days on the last entry wrong, which is how you know you are on a trip.) New Observations: Dragonfly: When we were working on the…

Friday was sort of a lost day due to Robert spending two hours on the phone in the cool part of the day dealing with identity theft from March. Just FYI, smaller credit unions are better at catching this stuff as B of A gave some guy claiming to be Robert 30 K in credit…

Lessons learned/observations: The best time to go to Home Depot is early in the morning. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. with a nightmare and a hot flash, so I got up, which is not unusual for me, but then Robert got up, too, and Harold, so we decided to do the hauling trip early….

Day 4: August 3, 2022 Today’s thoughts: Sometimes it feels like we are spinning our wheels, not getting anywhere, and all plans for miraculous home improvement are just that, plans. This is also much like life. Harold not only likes Home Depot—he also loves Pets Mart! He got a giant tennis ball and a bully…

Day 3: August 2, 2022 Lessons from Today: Harold likes Home Depot. He really, really likes Home Depot. We would prefer to use another store, but our area offers only Ace and Home Depot, and we need supplies. Did I mention that Harold likes Home Depot? He did not pee on anything or assault anyone,…

July 30-August 14             Most years, we take a trip up the coast in the Bus (and before that in a Prius, and before that in the Accord, and before that in Buttercup, my 1984 Volvo wagon). This year, however, we have decided to stay home and work on our house. What with one thing…

July 16-19 2022             I can’t exactly remember when I first met Tirian. For me, she was always there, like water, earth, and sky. I suspect it was in Montessori school in Ashland in the very early 70’s, learning the words and how to eat cattails and Tiger Lilies, and T’s Mom Esther was part…