Talked with Emily about family health insurance for new hire. Then spoke with Caitie Hilverman about board development work and board meeting.
Board meeting was active and engaged. Caitie, Charlie, Annamaria, and others showed real energy.
Tennis with Ted. Knee continues to be troublesome. Good hour.
Made butternut squash soup.
Chat with Anne, Ted, Ellen Feldman. Ted is in Redhook.
Spent time trying to get Lightroom up and running to replace Photos app, and UTMH work. Went to play tennis with Ted at 2:30 pm. 40 degrees but little wind. Balls didn’t bounce much so many ball were hit at ankle height. Then we had snow flurries. Time to end the outdoor season?? When will the city take down the nets? Usually already happened by this point in the year.
Hung up banner for last DOG show of the year.
Watched more of Homeland and Ally McBeal
Up early. Listened to Only a Game podcast.
HAL Board of Trustees mtg – active, happy meeting. Received $58,500 PPP money from SBA. Good for 2 1/2 months salaries etc. Lots of talk about new fundraising strategies. Emily made extensive report on our online library programming.
Went to Letterbox Farm to pickup order of eggs and greens.
Karen participated in Balance for Seniors from the library. I did my exercises for the first time in weeks.
Ordered grab bars and other bathroom stuff from Amazon. This will allow us to make the first floor bathroom safe for us to shower in. Short term fix without all of the work planned for a walk in shower.
Karen made meatloaf and sautéed spinach. We drove a portion over to Dave Drake. Had lengthy drinks with Ted and Anne.
Watched the first 30 minutes of China Moon (1995). Gave up at that point. Back to Person of Interest
Off to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat at some distance from others. Not as crowded as usual. Couple of cracks about practicing social distancing. Went to ShopRite. Parking lot was over half full. never seen this at this early hour. Some shelves, noticeably paper products and water were nearly bare. Meat in thin supply. Certain air of frenzy about some of the shoppers. We stocked up on canned goods. Also went to Walmart. Both places were sold out of tofu!
Walked up to Farmer’s Market on upper Union. Warren St. was quite empty. Noticed workers moving pews out of the Presbyterian Church. Maybe the roof project is going to get underway. The market had quite a few people. No Berkshire Bakery bread. Bought a bacon and gruyere quiche.
Largely a day lost to the strange vibe of the COVID19 pandemic.
Played tennis at Old Chatham for 2 hours with Ted. Felt like a break through. Much fluid play and more good exchanges at the net. Love the HardTrtu court
Karen got up early to go to NYC. Train cancelled due to derailment at Penn Station. Decided to cancel trip. She returned to working on the pile of old boxed materials from the barn. 
Found prep school photo of me in box of Orton family photos recently brought in from the barn.
Confab with David Ackerman about marketing materials and contracts. Leon Greene has been signed up to start work, hopefully as CEO soon.
Ted picked me up for tennis at Old Chatham Tennis. 5-7pm. Break through night. Served very well because I consistently threw the ball high enough to slow down the back swing. 2 sets 6-3, 6-2.
Spent several hours working through photos from 2018 to make a list of events. Also extended the project on ValuEdge history. Cleaned up a few family finance issues.
Karen’s new 27” iMac arrived. Got it started installing from Time Machine backup. Still working on it as we went to bed.
Played tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis… only got one hour of court time. Worked on new grip for backhand. Ended set at 3-5.
Went to TSL to see Parasite (IMDB link), the Korean movie much talked about recently. Interesting, strange movie….
We had a dinner for 14 people. Dave Drake cooked the duck breast and red cabbage. Karen made various dishes as did Mark. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap made a desert, others brought wines and hors d’oeuvre. Ed, Meredith, Maggie and Parker came up from NJ. Ted and Anne came too. Pauline Decarmo, Susan???? Unfortunately none of Dave’s kids came.
On the way to Bob’s…..
7:28 am
Attended a marketing workshop at the library. This one given by staff from MHLS. Biggest surprise was to hear from folks at RoeJan Library that they only raise 30% of the funds from taxes!!
First visit of the season to Old Chatham Tennis Club. Played with Ted on the HarTru court. Lots of fun on this surface.
UTMH team meeting and other work.
Tennis lesson with Saif.
end of outdoor season at Total Tennis
Jesse and Anna
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.
in the Steel Plant building at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY
Early breakfast. eEllen Liburt came by to talk about her professional website
Met with Bill Stenehjem about HAL board. He is mostly interested in programming.
UTMH – various with Seth.
Tennis with Ted. Karen is teaching her online course
Met Dan Ronsani at library to talk about what he wants to do on the board,
Smoked some weed and had too much drink.