Category Archives: Hudson

4/27/2019 – Tanzys, Goodwill, DOG , tennis, drinks

Saturday 

 

Outside Tanzys

Construction next to Ruth and Michael seems stalled.

Breakfast at Tanzys. Talked with Tom and Tisha Mulligan about travel. Barcelona. Rome. Sicily. Most of the Hudson police force was there too. As always the food was great. 

Farmers Market is back outdoors. Cold, windy.

Then to Goodwill to find a new lightweight jacket. Came home with jacket and new sweatpants and a large cast iron sauce pan. This to replace one of the nonslip pans  

Picked up four frozen chickens at Letterbox Farm.

Karen went to balance class at the library. Three people came in the gallery. 

Tennis at CGCC with Ted. Cold and slow. Played for a little over an hour. 

Ted and Anne came for drinks. The usual fun. Lots of talk about Rome. 

Stoned. Listened to the Last Walz. Then Bosch. 

4/26/2019 – colonoscopy

Got up at 6 am to take the second round of last night’s laxatives. Third day of this process.

Appointment at 10:30am at CMH. 

Anesthetist said that she was starting the propofol drip. I woke up sometime later back in the ambulatory room. Never actually met the doctor, Dr. Blachman. He walked in when I was already lying on my side falling asleep. Everything went well. Everything normal.

Lunch at The Cascades at 1:15 pm with Karen. Miranda Barry and Charlotte Sheedy were there. Charlotte still doesn’t recognize me. 

Had a new sandwich, The Catamount.

Catamount (Vegetarian) $8.25
Hummus, cucumber, roasted red peppers, grated carrots, sprouts, and mozzarella cheese with a touch of balsamic vinaigrette served on mixed grain bread

Think this will be my go-to sandwich in place of tuna on multi-grain.

Talked with Matt Almeida. Things are slow on his end.

4/19/2019 – web project, work, drinks at Le Perche

Friday

Cold slowly departing. Spent much of the day working on various aspects of updating and integrating materials into this website. Long telecon with Troy Web. Making good progress on many matters. Communication seems much better. Talked with Matt who had not done very much.

Long nap. Made red lentil gorp.

Went to Le Perche to meet Richard and Roberta Cummings for drinks. We had run into them last Saturday at Bob’s. They told us that Friday was a Le [perche night for them. They didn’t show this evening. Chatted with staff. Talked a bit about Karen’s book group discussion the evening before about Michelle Obama’s book. Jonathan called Karen from San Francisco where he had participated in a conference and given a talked he described as most important. Very warm damp weather in the evening.

4/13/2019 – breakfast, DOG sitting, drinks with Ruth and Michael

Saturday

Breakfast at Bob’s with short visit to ShopRite. CVS to pick up Tadalafil. Only took two 20 mg tablets at $106. See if it works. Gallery sitting rest of day. Karen went to her balance class at the library and then to Ctr for Photography at Woodstock for an opening.

Seen at ShopRite. Not sure why “paws” is better than “feet”?

Spent lots of time on 2011 road trip project here. Also a posting on AD of John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system.

Emily and Michael Chameides came by the gallery at the end of the day. Left exactly at 5:30. Good talk with Michael about his supervisor role and other local politics and policies. Very smart guy, Low key, pleasant to boot. Since I speak with Emily regularly we barely spoke. They enjoyed the exhibit, LandEscapes.

Michael O’Hara and Ruth Tamaroff came for drinks at 6:30. Lots of talk about Michael’s two week visit to Rome in January. We are planning a visit in May.  He gave us very detailed descriptions of places he visited with suggestions along the way. I took three pages of notes. Very much fun visit with them. Ruth was a bit tippy on leaving. Michael seems impervious to drink.

4/5/2019 – work, DOG, other

Friday

Weather was cold and rainy. Snow shower in the afternoon.

Spent part of the morning finishing up hanging the DOG show. Will have to wait until late for the arrival of the monitor for the videos.

Long telecon with Troy Web at noon. Seth almost came unglued because of his laptop failing. But we got through it. TW is still not acting like a partner. Tendency to do just what they are asked with no responsibility for giving us feedback. Talked with Matt Almeida from the car at Subway out in Claverack. 

Walked around with Karen to drop off gallery cards at the B&Bs and other.

Construction continues next to Michael and Ruth’s house.

Ruth Wetzel dropped off the monitor at 7:30.

3/24/2019 – painting, gallery, Indian music with kids,

Sunday

Slight coating of snow on the ground. After breakfast Karen went off to Williams Lumber to buy more White Dove paint. I was sitting at the breakfast table looking out when she came in from the barn. She promptly fell flat on her face on the two steps up to the deck.Very upsetting to me. She just jumped up and said that nothing was hurt. Probably bruised knees.

More work on Sicily photos. Prepped and painted walls in gallery. Karen painted the doorway in the kitchen.

Went to Hudson Opera House for a concert of Indian music with kids from Hudson performing. Lots of fun. You can hear the kids in the background. As the music gained pace some began to dance around.

Ran into Pauline Decarmo on way home. She gave us some weed to tide us over. We also talked about her design work of UTMH.

Stopped at new store next to Vico. Strange place. The Hudson Underground. The Hudson Underground. 

Beer can chicken, spinach, leftovers

 

3/23/2019 – breakfast, farmers market, travel photos, art opening

Saturday

Late breakfast at Bob’s. Whitney and Steve were there. Karen and I talked about a road trip in September. Went to Walmart. Karen arranged for my first shot of the new anti-shingles vaccine.

Worked on the photos from the Sicily trip in 2018. Over 1,400 from this Netherlands-Sicily trip in October. The iPhone time stamps and the camera time stamps are slightly out of synch causing troubles with the sequencing.

Went to art opening in late afternoon at Hudson Opera House. Too many people. Stopped at Red Dot for a drink and appetizers.

On the way home ran into Michael O’Hara outside his house. We stood over the construction site next door.Just as I noticed that the first floor joists are attached to a ledger board instead of sitting on top of the foundation Michael said that the contractor had poured the wall 18” too high. What a mess. Then Michael told the story of how the original building had collapsed because they had dug down 2 feet below the bottom of the original stone foundation. The clay subsoil gave way causing first a side wall then the front wall to slip in under the building. Big SNAFU. So far this is not an advertisement for competence on the part of the architect owners nor the contractors.

Watched the fourth in the Kavanaugh Q.C. British TV series from the mid ‘90s. Followed by another VEEP.

 

3/20/2019 – assessment response, travel photos, Anita Harris, UTMHH, tennis

Wednesday

Most of morning worked on response to new real estate assessment on 114. 

More work on February 2011  road trip photos.

Spoke with Seth then Kurt Lozier at SOMML. Ole reported on his conference at NY Home Health Association meeting yesterday.

Anita Harris. 

Tennis doubles at Total Tennis. 

3/13/2019 – transformational learning, work, tennis

Wednesday

Late breakfast. More research about adult learning models. Transformational learning.

Walked to PO w Karen.

More crap about Gayle Gendron. She called WW and accused him of going behind her back to Seth. David is ready to part company but wants to involve a lawyer. Told him that was unnecessary. Seth is equivocating. trying to get commitment from Brandon about support and training responsibilities.

Walking back home:

 

Looked at city re-assessment documents. The comparables don’t make sense. Set up appointment with GAR Associates.

Wrote part of a posting about learning strategies on AD.

Tennis doubles at Total tennis. Played very well, especially serve. Tossing the ball high. Then discovered on the way home that I had left my phone at TT. Drove abck. Building left unlocked. No phone. Went home and look on iPad with Find My Phone app. It was opposite St. Jospeh’s Catholic Church on Spring St. in Catskill. After some calls to Paul Ambrose found out it was at Steve Horniak’s house. Drove over and retrieved it at 10 pm.

3/8/2019 – work, AmericanDelusions, new grocery

Friday

Tree removal in the alley.

Some UTMH work. Troubles w Wexelman causing troubles about how apps are working. Set up marketing meeting in Hudson in ten days to talk lead generation. Brief chat with David A about commissions. Again didn’t really understand him.

Wrote AD piece on International Women’s Day.International Women’s Day.

Went to new grocery store on 2nd St. Rolling Grocer 19.