Author: thecapeblog

I’ve had this weird swelling in the socket above my right eye for about five days now. Cold bothers it, heat helps it, and it doesn’t interfere with my vision.

We were going to see Helen Caldicott speak in Plymouth tonight but opted to watch videos of her presentations instead. Well, at least we could hear her.

We helped out last night at the Woods Hole Folk Music Society. Really nice concert and enjoyed working with the group.

I made chicken pie and killer soup with the 5 buck cluck from Roche.

Our Toro leaf blower is shot, can’t find parts even though I bought it less than 3 years ago.

Ron and I collected signatures at two post offices today. Woods Hole was cold and windy and not very productive. West Falmouth was much better. Talked with some interesting people.

Our friend Joyce Johnson invited us for a hot lunch afterwards – homemade kale soup, delicacies from Pie aLa mode and homemade chocolate cake and gingerbread. Delicious!

We stopped at Soares just to say hello, then I picked up some CDs at the library, got money and gas and fetched Emme on the way to the home show.

Was pleased to see several people there whom we know, including Terry who I sometimes run into at the Transfer Station, Tom Gonzalski and Tom Capizzi, and got info on future projects. I bought Emme a pretty bead bracelet from a fundraiser.

I made brown rice with chunky tomato and sausage sauce for supper.

Gave Fluffles his ACE this morning and groomed him almost completely. Ron cut his nails and I got a pile of undercoat off.

Ron insisted that I stop trying to comb out a couple of very large clumps. Even so, Fluffles looks great, like a house cat and not an alley cat.

We went for a walk today at one of the Bourne Conservation Trust’s properties, Little Bay.

Paid bills today. Picked up a prescription for me and a “trank” for Fluffles so we can groom him ourselves.

Had a few other errands and that pretty much took care of the afternoon. Ran into a member of the User Group who was doing handyman tasks for one of our neighbors. Hope he can give us an estimate on putting up walls in the basement.

Found some good papers and free eBooks on abstraction, MVC versus Web Forms, Web Parts and User Controls, Scaffolding and Responsive Design, Knockout and JQuery.

Ron managed to clean the front of the stove with a solvent! Too bad that I’ve ruined the finish through the years using abrasives.

Planted the moonflower seeds in an Earth Box in the cold frame.

Finished leaf cleanup here yesterday. Did the transfer station run with Peter.

Found Ron’s DAR lineage online – very pleased about this! Turns out, his Revolutionary War ancestor was one of the Minutemen. There’s a fair amount of info online about this part of Ron’s family tree.

More emails about CCMTA and NationBuilder. Got an email blast set up, we’ll see if it goes out today. I managed to put together a list of email addys for our Congressional district and a rough transcript of the NationBuilder training video.

Angry call from Candy. Her “mean girls” have been at it again. Why couldn’t they just leave her alone?

We had something like slush last night, but it’s just raining now.

Have been leaf blowing and raking this weekend. Yesterday, we dropped off the leaf vac for servicing.

Cleaned up the vegetable garden and the front beds yesterday. Did the “U” in the back today. Picked up a bag and a half of leaves, sticks and other debris with the mower.

Cleaned out the Earth Boxes and planted pumpkin seeds in one of them. Also set up Fluffles’ grass in the cold frame.

Made matzo brei this morning.

In Peter’s lawn.

Good meeting with presentation by Chief George Baker on the hopelessness of escaping a catastrophe at Pilgrim.

I made couscous and sausage for supper.

I raked in front of the fence, behind the deck and the vegetable garden.

Have some pretty plants with red leaves coming up: lettuce?

Was going to a Master Gardener’s lecture tonight in Falmouth, but I’m too tired.

In addition, I’m halfway through a pile of laundry.

Ron sorted through more old paperwork today. I picked up KI pills for all of us at the Board of Health. I made chicken soup and pasta salad with the rest of the 5 Buck Cluck.