Author: thecapeblog

Managed to print off the labels today and mail most of my holiday cards. Kept a couple back so I could include notes.

Ron will take care of his at some point.

I ordered cards from CVS and was a little disappointed in them, but don’t dislike them enough to not use them. The color came a little garish for my taste, but Ron says they are fine.

I’ve been busy with programming. Got the school site up pretty quickly this time and think I’ve worked out a way to cross-authenticate using cookies on two subdomains.

Still working on database connectivity for the Commissioners, hope that’ll be done tomorrow when the IT guy gets back in the office.

Ron is really enjoying the holiday lights that we put up.  All LEDs, including three new 20-bulb battery-operated strands.

Finished outdoor decorations yesterday.

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Ron had a check-up appointment this morning, so I finished up the leaves at Edgewater. It rained a little, sort of a heavy drizzle, but that didn’t slow down Peter’s lawnmower at all.

This afternoon, I set out the extension cords and started putting up the outdoor holiday lights. Ron helped after getting back from running an errand. By that time, it had started raining again.

We decided not to do the tree this year, so we put the big string of white LED lights on the clump of trees at the right corner of the house. As a result, we had enough LEDs for the rest of the bushes. Ron set up the spotlight and it all looks very pretty. Photos when it clears!

Ordered Peter’s birthday gift today.

Checked in with DPW, they approved the work we did on clearing overhanging branches and are taking us off the no-plow list. The new sign should be installed in the next couple of weeks.

Emails were delivered late. Strange.

We had a good day – laundry, errands, annual holiday visit to Highfield, leaf cleanup at Edgewater – but by the time the moon was out, we were pretty beat.

Fortunately, we had some chicken and vegetable soup in the freezer so I didn’t have to cook supper.

I worked the blower on the front yard, cleaned out the bushes, the left side, the day lilies, around the rock garden. I was so tired that I interrupted Ron, who was using the lawn mower in the back, to pick up the piles I’d accumulated. I’m hoping the rain will hold off so he can finish his work tomorrow.

At 9:45 this morning, we realized that we had a 10:30 appointment to donate blood at Cape Cod Hospital.

We ran into traffic in Cotuit – probably an accident – but were only a few minutes off schedule.

Our donations finished in the exact same elapsed time: 4 minutes, 55 seconds. This delighted the staff.

They recommended that we take it easy for the rest of the day, so after a stop at Home Depot for Krud Kleaner, we headed to Dennis to the Cape Cod Museum of Art so we could see Emma, the shop and the galleries. Ron loved it; he’s hoped to find good art on the Cape, and this was a start.

On the way, we picked up some beautiful wreaths at Cape Cod Organic Farm in Barnstable. We had a nice chat with a worker who did her undergrad at a school in NH. We’ll probably go back!

After the museum we splurged and had lunch at the Underground Bakery in Dennis, which had been recommended by one of the docents at the museum.

In anticipation of my first day at the new assignment, Ron set up the coffee pot the night before.

Yesterday, he made a nice lunch for me and put dinner together as well.

Had two meetings at the Commissioners office and camped out at Sturgis Library in the interim.

Picked up some last minute PassMass petitions at the Barnstable County clerk’s office.

Ron had raked the front yard. I had just enough daylight to clean up the back with Peter’s lawn mower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checked out Peter’s new mailbox, provided by a decent soul who knocked over the old one some time yesterday. We loaded his trash and recyclables onto the truck.

Having found the receipt (in my pocketbook), we brought our request for price matching to Mill Store for a credit and picked up a (bad) heat lamp bulb at Home Depot. Did some food shopping.

Loaded our trash and recyclables and did the transfer station run.

We raked the area in front of the fence and put away the Autumn decorations, including James’ pumpkin, which is composting in the back.

I made a version of the train wreck casserole we had in Jaffrey for supper; leftovers for lunch, fish that didn’t taste that great but didn’t poison us, either.

We had a fine visit up North and an excellent Thanksgiving feast.

The truck brakes were found to be okay. The mechanic thinks the warning light problem might be a bum sensor in the emergency brake. Peter and Bonnie were gracious enough to bring Truck home for me. I was so happy to see it in the driveway last evening!

Ron’s lawyer is actually communicating with him. May it continue.

I may have already written that the lawn mower repair was minor.

Today we did a little banking, visited the Cataumet Art Center’s annual holiday open house and then took a ride to East Sandwich to pick up my beloved wall clock. Ron did laundry this morning, I updated the O-F website with pix from yesterdays stand-out; otherwise we’ve been pretty indolent all day.

I plowed through two bags of receipts, all of Ron’s coat pockets and piles of paperwork in a futile search for the sales slip from Mill Stores for the Duraflame “fireplace”. It’s on sale at a couple of places and they have a policy of honoring competitor’s pricing within 30 days of sale. I will be quite vexed if we can’t find it.

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The brake light on the truck started blinking on and off yesterday, but I/we were able to do a pile of errands anyway: senior center, library, Yarmouth and Barnstable town halls, Botello, Rita’s.

This morning, Jack Strumski and Peter Randall were in to help us with homeowner stuff. Jack is the PM for our siding project.

The lawnmower repair was very minor, a $1.50 part and minimum labor charge. Thank goodness!

The truck is in for diagnosis.