I spent a good deal more time today than I wanted to on switching hosting companies for this blog. It’s still not 100% – I have to fix the DNS setting – and I have to upload images.
It took a good part of the morning, but Ron was able to clean and grease the lawn sweeper. We’ve got most of the grass cleaned up, and we fit in a transfer station run as well.
I found this little fellow on MacArthur Boulevard; fortunately, it was before the driving wind and rain earlier this week.
I called both the State Police barracks in Bourne and the Highway Department to see if he’d been reported missing. I also posted a “Lost and Found” in capecod.craigslist
It doesn’t seem like anyone’s going to claim him, so we may just add him to our collection of stuffed animals.
We do need a name for him, though.
Ron and Josh Schurman are friends from college who hadn’t seen each other for over 40 years! Josh is a clinical social worker/therapist and a fine guitarist. We saw him open last night for Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin at the Courthouse Center for the Arts in Kingstown, RI. We also met Josh’s wife Kate Dunnigan. Kate is a professor of history and the chair of the Social Sciences department at the Community College of Rhode Island. She has a particular interest in labor history. I hope we have a chance for a longer visit with them.
And, yes, it is possible for Ron’s hulking GMC Safari to get 49 miles to the gallon.
We’d be buried in bullion by now. The last 24 hours have been a horror show, almost as frightening as the remnants of the hurricane Sandy.
Heard a loud “boom” a couple of hours ago that sounded like a transformer exploding, but we kept our power, thank goodness.
It seems like the 2012 election season went on for at least a decade.
I put out signs in Mashpee and at Falmouth town hall for Questions 2, 3 and 4. After the polls closed, Ron drove us back to pick them up. Glad we did, too, since most of the candidate signs were gone by that time as well.
Setting up a Question 3 sign in Falmouth center was an impulse. I assembled it with a metal holder and tape from Eastman’s. I’m glad to have done it; Question 3 passed overwhelmingly, so I can share a tiny bit of reflected glory.
New subject: I tried reconstructing last year’s polar chart project but ran into some snags yesterday so set it aside for now.
Found this cute little fellow while foraging yesterday in the vicinity of the Bourne Tranfer Station off MacArthur Boulevard. Posted to Craiglist Lost & Found this morning.
I caught up with our lawn expert Tom Gonzalski today. We haven’t asked him to do a whole lot for us this year although I’ve consulted him a couple of times, and he’s always been willing to share advice.
Tom told me there’s another storm coming, not as big as the fringes of hurricane Sandy, but enough wind to take down most of the remaining leaves. He encouraged me to get as many leaves as I could off the new grass now.
I’d pretty well raked the front yard at Edgewater over the weekend, so I went over this afternoon to do the back. Lost count after 13 or so of the number of times I emptied the grass catcher, but I got it done before dark – early now that we’re back to Standard Time.
After talking over options, I finally asked Tom to schedule us in about two weeks for the last two pre-Winter treatments at Edgewater.
Ron is about 60% of the way through with the deck! It looks fantastic from the front and from the yard. I’m thrilled.
This morning, we dropped off a load of blow-downs at the transfer station, drove to Plymouth to pick up yard signs and decided to grab brunch. We were lucky enough to stumble onto a local favorite, Metro’s Cafe on 3A.
We did a second transfer station run with recyclables and trash, then I removed leaves from the front yard at Edgewater. The leaves were so deep and so damp, it took 4-5 passes with the lawn mower in some areas.
Ron did more work on the deck railings.
Candy and John came over for supper. Started a beef stew this morning, served hot rolls and blueberry pie with ice cream.
Kept it simple since we’d planned to do outdoor work. I had a disastrous time making waffles this morning, ended up with pancakes.
Ron picked up some supplies at Home Depot. I mowed and cleaned up in front, filled two wheelbarrels full. Tried out the new lawn sweeper here and at Edgewater.
It’s over: Halloween, P&B’s anniversary, hurricane Sally, last week’s transfer station run.
We had around 63 trick-or-treaters this year.
I left the office around 2:30. Met Ron at Edgewater to load up the truck for the transfer station: tree limbs, yard clippings, piles of recycling, trash.
Came back to make supper – steak, baked potatoes, asparagus – and to put out more decorations.
The kids shrieked with delight at Ron’s getup. Fun night, and I’m sad that it’s over so soon.
In spite of strong gusts, Frankenstorm did very little damage to either yard. We cleaned up branches at both. I did some raking here and put down compost on the right side of the “U” and a little in the vegetable garden; more to follow.
Ron bought some more rebar and reinforced the trellis. We worked until it started to thunder and rain.