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Monday, September 25, 2023

Bits and Pieces


Today, Marie and I did our last jigsaw puzzle for a while. This one is called Morning Stop, and it was a lot of fun. Also 300 pieces, and it took 1 hr and 15 min. Tomorrow we head for the Adirondacks!

jigsaw puzzle


I'm going to fill in with a few odds and ends from the week here that I wanted to show you, but they didn't make the cut on their own day.

This is part of Ellen's fairy garden. She has a big round space in her yard filled with white gravel and fairy scenes.
fairy garden


The Rondout Harbor, where we saw the Trinidad, also has a maritime museum. We'll save that for another trip since it won't sail away. One of their displays is the steam tugboat, Mathilda. This was built in Quebec in 1898 and is one of the few surviving steam tugboats, although it is no longer in the water.
tugboat


We got a big kick out of it for reasons other than historical. The name is spelled the same as our friend, Mathilda, with an h.
tugboat mathilda


Two more shots of the Trinidad. I love the high stern with the windows in the captain's cabin. The captain always occupied the stern because in sailing vessels the wind comes from behind, so all the bad smells are carried forward.
trinidad ship stern


The recreated ship sails under the current Spanish flag.
spanish flag


Finally, I can't resist sharing this shark sign.
shark sign


I also edited today, and we did errands and visited Selma again. It's been a great week here. We don't have to say goodbye yet, but the focus will change.

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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Lunch with My Veteran

  Thanks to the Applebees free-meal-for-a-vet program, Om and I went out to eat today. old couple

Applebees was displaying their line of US and Service flags. The weather was nasty with a cold wind and rain, but it made the flags stand out! line of flags

Om had the free small steak-- they have a very nice selection of the free meals, and I had a cheeseburger. Every once in a while I get a craving for a burger, so this should hold me for a while. And I'm stuffed.
man in restaurant


In other news: the weather is dictating a change in focus for a few days. I did accounts all morning, worked on food a bit, and fixed the two braces that fell down last night in the trailer. No clue why 5 were fine and 2 were not. Then I put one more layer of resin on the table top and that did get the bad divots out. It's still not perfectly smooth. I'm not sure what the secret is to make that happen. Anyway, it no longer totally annoys me. After we had lunch I did errands and went to stores. Hopefully, I have almost everything for the rest of the snacks now. We'll see. Sue is coming again tomorrow to help, so I want to be ready for her. I plan to load the dehydrator yet tonight. Surprisingly tired, but oh well. Keep chugging.

25 BIG ITEMS to complete- (37 done). Did 4 small ones and added some and 38 small ones to do (32 done). 19 days to go.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A Picture Quilt

 
I'm not sure how successful this is, but I was just having fun anyway. The squares are all made from reflections in a car window.

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