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7/27/2019 – breakfast, shopping, tennis, reception

Saturday

Up early for breakfast at Bob’s. Shopping. Tennis with Ted. Already in high 80s. Cindy Weisbart arrived about 3:30pm. Karen cooked her famous “sesame chicken egg roll in a bowl”

Reception for 5th Annual Group Show – “50 photographs, 50 photographers, one video…” A mob scene. Very hot and stuffy. Paula Tognarelli spoke at some length. Fortunately Karen interrupted her to get an explanation about some malfeasance at another gallery that she was speaking about.

Paula Tognarelli and Steve Gentile

7/26/2019 – yard work, work, tennis, Rhiannon Giddens

Friday 

Raked yard. Checked on sun coverage for possible vegetable garden next year. Hung last of the pictures for the annual group show. Cleaned up storage rack in side room. Threw out boxes from barn storage.

Talked with Linda Larson at length. Possible laptop purchase. New poetry book. Also Harvey Meyerson who is back in Silver Spring. His recovery is quite slow. Keeler mob will be at Bantam first week  of August.

Karen left at noon for her Woodstock photo group.  

Tennis at 3:30 with Ted. Ended just after 5 with set at 8-7. Wrist felt much better.

Went to Albany for concert at The Egg. 

7/23/2019 – house, work, tennis

Tuesday

Mike Herman sent in a proposal for a new patio to replace the rotted wood deck. We met and confirmed the design. They got right to work. The existing wooden structure had been built ten years earlier directly on soil without any ventilation. It was completely rotted out. Pancho and Jerry suggested a masonry patio to replace it. Obviously this would never rot. $4000.

Demolition

UTMH team meeting. Conversation with Ball Assoc. about PR. More with David Ackerman. 

Doubles. Weather pleasant. Played extremely well. Lots of good exchanges at the net. Felt very active and engaged. Partnered with Joe Delamorte, Ted, and Paul Ambrose. 

7/3/2019 – web project, work, tennis

Wednesday

Mostly worked on furthering the consolidation of old materials into this website. Lots more to go. Contacted Harvey about going to Bantam Thursday and Friday. OK.

Any scratches??

Went with Karen to Home Depot in Catskill to buy some shades for the back room. Ended up spending $800 for two bottom up-top-down room darkening shades from Levelor.

Brief meeting with Seth and a call to SOMML. They are already on vacation.

Checked out the correct grip size for tennis. Reduced my wrap by one layer.

Played tennis with Ted for 90 minutes at 4pm.  92 degrees, intense sun. Sluggish, perhaps yesterday’s 3+ hours of tennis has its residual effects. Still managed to keep ahead of Ted, though I called off the set early.  New wristband is a help. But this wrist problem may become disabling and require a rest period. Really tired at end of session.

Karen made her signature dish of chicken chunks with chopped cabbage coleslaw. Watched several The Closer.

7/2/2019 – work and tennis

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting. Meeting at NYRWA to move project to next phase. Invoice UTMH. 

Tennis lesson with Saif at 4pm. Lots of work on  ground strokes, especially proper follow through with arm. Wrist bothering me more especially trying overheads. Good work on tossing the ball higher on serve. Still have not found the grove.

Waited around until 5:45 for the first of the doubles guys to show up. Once again got stuck with George and Henry because they show so early. Dreadful first set. Last set was competitive. Ted and I against Joe and George. BUT, not so smart to schedule a lesson before two hours of doubles. I was dead.

Joe and Paul announced that Bill Zvoboda had entered hospice. We took a group photo to send to him.

(left to right) Ted Dewsnap, Kevin Kelleher, Bob Gegen , George Traver, Steve Horniak, Joe Capobianco, Mark Orton, Justin Misevcis, Paul Ambrose, Frank Rosa, Henry Congegrane, Chad Silver

Today’s doubles group started out with these four guys:

(Left to right) Bill Zvoboda, Marty Darling, Joe Capobianco, Paul Ambrose – circa 25 years ago

6/30/2019 – Tanglewood Brass Extravaganza, tennis, drinks with David Drake

Sunday

David Drake came by to pick me up for a trip to Tanglewood for a Brass Concert. Wew especially like the percussion piece and the Symphony for Brass by Malcolm Arnold. Musicianship was extremely high. Good turnout for a Sunday morning. Demographics – average age in the 50s. We were back in Hudson by 1:30.

Pauline Decarmo minded the gallery.

Tennis

Played wtih Ted. He got ahead in our set 4-1, then I got it back to 4-5 serving for the set at 40-love when a big downpour ended our play.

Drinks

Karen came home early from her trip to Lowell MA to meet with Soup Group. We had a drink at Swoon. Also an appetizer: Roasted Cauliflower …spicy lamb ragout, shaved pecorino, herbs. Very good. Worth emulating.

Evening sun on Warren.

6/24/2019 – web projects, work, tennnis, book group

Monday

PT with Corey Smith at 7:30am. Asked him about a private consult to set up a home exercise protocol using the mat, rubber bands, and weights I already have.

Spent many hours working on integrating old websites into this one. Adding many new Projects as well as posts. Lots of material to work on. Played tennis with Ted at 1pm. Felt infinitely better than yesterday’s outing. Won a set 6-1. Pretty bouncy all and all.

Non-fiction book group. Just six people. I hadn’t read the book, No Ashes…. Pretty good discussion nevertheless.

6/23/2019 – walk, gallery, tennis, drinks

Sunday

Went for walk up Warren after breakfast. Great weather.

Walked down to train station to see Noah off. Train was l;after than he told us. He was outside the house when we walked back. Brief chat with Noah, John and Stephanie.

Gallery duty.

Played tennis with Ted at 3pm. Felt very sluggish and generally lousy. Drinks with Dave at Swoon.

6/18/2019 – work, tennis

Tuesday

Breakfast with Dave Drake at Bob’s.

UTMH team meeting. Review new website with Tony Kieraldo. Then afternoon meeting with Troy Web to review changes to software. Warren Wexelman participated remotely. Very productive. 

Doubles at Total Tennis. Not very good. My new shirt.  

8:20 pm. End of tennis