Sunday NYTimes.
Leiden chat at noon.
Drive to New Lebanon Shaker Village. Drove back along County Rte 9 4-5 miles to intersection with 203. Too cold for much of a walk.
More George Gently.
Drove to Sagaponack in the Hamptons on the south fork of the eastern tip of Long Island. 4 hour drive (199 miles). Andrea bought a house here at a bargain price earlier in the year. Arrived for lunch, chats with Andrea, Noah and Nyla, tour of the house and a visit to the beach. Continue reading
UTMH team meeting and other work.
Tennis lesson with Saif.
Dr. Jenny Shaffer presented a lecture entitled “Harnessing the Past to Create the Present: The Multiple Lives of Charlemagne’s Chapel at Aachen, ca. 800-2019″. Lecturer is friends with Ted and Anne. Interesting for its traversal of so much European history.
Did set up and course monitoring for today’s HAL Ghostly Gallop 5k walk run race.
While waiting for the race to get started I walked around this noe empty building. It looks quite small at street level. But it is in fact a four story 1960s concrete pile. May become Hudson city hall and other uses.
Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.
75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack.
Up early. Worked on Angry (Old) White Man essay. PT at 9:30.
Dropped package off at UPS. Building undergoing renovations. Didn’t know that that end had a curved roof.
HAL mtg about Volunteers at Verdigris at 11. New Board member Carol Pledger. Emily and Brenda too. Very good discussion of volunteer program.
Returned to work on volunteer management software
Tennis at night. Played much better than usual until last 20 minutes.
Worked on clean up of gallery. Lots of holes to fill in.
Packed up boxes. Went to UPS. Then to Lowes for a new light bulb for bathroom.
New construction off Healy Bvd. And an ugly house.
Tennis at night. Not very inspiring.
Went to gym alone. Karen is mending her ankle.
After breakfast spent time working on a mock up of a website for the Greenport Historical Society. ghs.markorton.com. They haven’t asked for one but I will propose it to them as my contribution. Continue reading