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Thursday – 3/9/2017

Worked library voter lists. Then we drove to Crossgates Mall in Albany in search of rain proof coats for our Netherlands visit. Went to Burlington Coat Factory. Dreadful place. Never enter that store again. Walked across mall to Macy’s. now suffering from early signs of consumption revulsion. Nothing water proof there. Stopped at Dicks where we found two water proof jackets. Saved. Continue reading →

Saturday – 3/4/2017

15 degrees when we got up. Winter is back for sure. Bob’s Diner for breakfast followed by quick shopping at Price Chopper. Home for coffee then a walk up to the indoor Farmers’ Market for Berkshire bread. 18 degrees. Cold fingers and face on walk back going into a stiff wind.

Karen noted this house on S. 6th St. again. Odd arrangement; maybe complex elevations inside.

Read much of a new NYReview of Books.

Went to library at 4 to see how the Living Library program was going. Karen talked with Jeff Rigby about repairing a book; I made paper birds with Pamela Badilla.

Off to TSL to see BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) a 2015 movie. Very compelling scenes from strip mining for coal in Inner Mongolia. Workers and goat herders lives in a tumult. Moved on to iron production. Workers with lung diseases. Ended with scenes in a ghost city of apartment towers somewhere west of Beijing. A tour de force about unrelenting uncontrolled exploitation of the earth and people by Chinese state capitalism.

Friday – 3/3/2017

Weighed 230. Noticed my notecard dating back to 2009 showed me at 260. Odd loss of weight. Though, I have noticed that I have been indulging in less face stuffing moments. Maybe peanut butter is the key. 

HAL mtg. 

Went to library about noon. Mtg w Emily Chameides, Carol Pledger, & Brenda Shufelt about volunteer processes. Stopped on way home to talk with Tessy Keller about her dealing with volunteers. She asked for help with ticketing system. 

Drove to Albany for dinner and movie with Anita Harris. Snow squalls along the way. Dinner at Van’s followed by Iranian movie The Salesman. A bit slow, melodramatic but also not aHollywood movie. 

Sunday – 2/12/2017 – Florida Trip

Left Smithfield NC after drive by of the Ava Gardner Museum. Only people well into their 70s recognize her name let alone feel compelled to visit a museum of memorabilia. 

The land along 95 is the coastal plain. Low and swampy. Not much to look at. Lots of very large billboards in SC. Where is Lady Bird Johnson?

Detoured into Savannah GA for quick bite to eat. Karen got oysters. We renewed our liking for this town. SCAD is bigger than ever. 

Drove 500 miles to St. Augustine Beach. Excellent meal at the “original Cafe Eleven”. Nice ambience. Hard to imagine music in this small venue.  

Ava Gardner Museum, Smithfield NC

Savannah GA

Georgia Florida Gift Shop, Kingsland GA

St. Augustine Beach FL

St. Augustine Beach FL

St. Augustine Beach FL

Tuesday – 1/31/2017

Local Produce

Went to corner store for some cereal for Linda. The prominence of sugar is amazing. Who would have thought of Reese’s Puffs?

Up and out to dentist appointment for root canal. Another $1,000 procedure!

The three of us went to the library. Karen to talk with Brenda Shufelt about the replace Peppler print.

Took Linda to see the library for the first time. Lunch at Cascades. Chatted with Linda about her doings. She is working on a research project at Mass Mental on how mentally ill relate to  their clinicians. Structured interviews.

Met with Seth Lachterman in mid afternoon. Prep for tomorrow’s CMH meeting. 

Geodesic dome house along Rte 25 in Stockport.

Linda and I went on a little ride in the country. Stockport Creek, then along Hudson River to Rte 25 to 9H to Stottville.

Stop at Price Chopper for bread for garlic bread.

Flat Tire

Dave Drake called at 6 to say that he had a flat tire. So we agreed to declare victory and we would get together another time. This left us short spaghetti sauce. Opened freezer, hot sausage into the nuker and 30 minutes later sauce. Karen made garlic bread a la Joy of Cooking. Very good.

Monday – 1/30/2017

Walked up to hospital for blood tests.

Stopped at Cascades for peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.

Then, a brief stop in Hudson Opera House to look at the Alleys of Hudson photo display. Peter Spears, photography.

HOH lobby. Construction is closing in on final work.l

Cleaned up downstairs.

Then, did more revisions to UTM piece. Done now. Talked with Ole Breuning about Northern Dutchess Hospital.

Linda Larson arrived with Karen at 7pm when she returned from her Soup Group meeting in Cambridge. Linda’s annual visit. 

Leftover tuna casserole for dinner.

Friday – 1/27/2017

Sound of a front-end loader backing up beeping repeatedly at 4am announced snow removal. Didn’t get up until after 8. Heard this poem on radio:

Happy the Man

by  John Dryden (1631-1700)

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, 

He who can call today his own

He who, secure within, can say,

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Translation from Horace??

Worked on UTM RPM instructions, then more volunteer website for the library. Matt Almeida at 11am. 

Walked to library for Program Committee mtg. Good  review of projects. 

Stayed art library until almost 4. Then walked to Tom Ferrell’s Auto at Worth Ave. to pick up care after auto inspection. 

Went to bank where I ran into the same truck driver with torn rotator cuff  He didn’t remember meeting earlier at Bobs Diner  

Karen cooked chicken with beer can in the butt  very good.