by Judy Handley | Apr 6, 2019 | 2019 Life Logs |
2019 Life Logs, Day 95: From Bow to Rye, New Hampshire
Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Weather: Mostly Cloudy; High 39, Low 33 degrees F
Location: At Home with Rich and Leslie Kole, Rye, NH
Visiting with good friends in New Hampshire is always a happy time. This morning I woke up in Bow at the Kanegsberg’s and tonight I am tucked in bed in Rye, New Hampshire, in Rich and Leslie Kole’s beautiful home. Leslie and I taught together in Concord, New Hampshire, for many years, and when she retired, she and Rich moved to Rye on the seacoast. Rich is a phenomenal chef,
so dinners here are always a delight. Tonight we had a wonderful salad and a delicious shrimp and sausage paella. Good food and good company always makes for a great evening. Earlier in the day, I worked with Helaine to pack up some of the things from her kitchen cabinets that she knows she won’t need in the next month before their move. When we finished our packing job, we went to a restaurant called The Common Man for lunch. Everything about the day was delightful from beginning to end.
by Judy Handley | Apr 4, 2019 | 2019 Life Logs |
2019 Life Logs, Day 94: Trip to New Hampshire Plus Anniversary Wishes to J&J
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019
Weather: Sunny; High 46, Low 23 degrees F
Location: At Home with Alan and Helaine Kanegsberg, Bow, NH
Justin and Jo were married 12 years ago today and each year they seem more madly in love. So here’s to 12 beautiful years together with wishes for many, many more.
I drove to New Hampshire this afternoon, met with my friend Detta Porat at the end of her school day to catch up on happenings, and then headed to the Concord Yacht Club meeting at Gretchen and Mike Coughlin’s in beautiful Canterbury, New Hampshire where there was still snow on the ground! As this group grows older, there are fewer and fewer members who still have boats, but there is no lack of sailing stories. No one can spin a yarn better than a seasoned sailor,
so we ate and sat around and listened to a few of those yarns. A couple of members that I haven’t seen for years were there tonight which made it a special evening for me. Alan Kanegsberg has been our Commodore for years and even though he and Helaine are moving to Massachusetts, he will continue to keep us organized. Thank you, Alan, for your dedication to this group. After the meeting, I drove back to Alan and Helaine’s to spend the night at the Hotel Kanegsberg where we stayed up late to continue talking. Wonderful evening.
by Judy Handley | Apr 3, 2019 | 2019 Life Logs |
2019 Life Logs, Day 93: Taxes Filed
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Weather: Sunny and Windy; High 50, Low 35 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
For the first time in 45 years, I filed my own taxes today! I used a free online filing service on the IRS site which was easy. On Monday I tried using the free Turbo Tax service, but being my first attempt, I kept making errors. So, I started fresh today with a different service and things went much more smoothly. I know I filed taxes myself before I met Mark, but somehow, once we were together, that job became his and I let that be. It feels good now to have done it for myself. And I’ll get the $150 that H&R Block would have charged. Nice compensation for a couple of hours of work.
Otherwise, I got ready for a trip to New Hampshire. I leave tomorrow just after noon and head to Bedford to meet with my friend Detta after her school day. Then I travel on to Canterbury for the Concord Yacht Club meeting tomorrow evening. I end my day at the Kanegsberg’s in Bow where I will spend the night. They have sold their home to move into a beautiful state-of-the-art retirement community in Massachusetts. After many years as a regular ‘customer’, I’ll be spending my last night in the Hotel Kanegsberg. It makes me a little sad, but I am so excited for Alan and Helaine. On Friday I will travel on to the New Hampshire coast to the town of Rye to visit with my friends Leslie and Rich Kole. Then on Saturday I’ll head home. It is the first soccer Saturday of the season and I am going to miss Sam’s first game on Saturday morning. But I will go to Jonah’s Sunday game which is off-Cape.
by Judy Handley | Apr 2, 2019 | 2019 Life Logs |
2019 Life Logs, Day 92: Busy Day
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Weather: Sunny, Still Cool; High 48, Low 38 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
This second day of April was a busy one. I started my morning with a visit with my snowbird friends Bruce and Jane Woodin who just returned from Florida. They had a wonderful, warm couple of months, but it is great to have them back home. Bruce showed off his Christmas cactus
which thrived while they were away. We had tea and then Jane and I went for a walk on the bike path. We did the mile+ walk that Lynne and I did last Friday. I came home, had lunch, worked on my puzzle, elevated and iced my knee, and then went to pick up Ollie after school. An hour later I went back to pick-up Jonah from his after-school program and in-between I did a load of laundry. Once Jed got home, I hurried home to have a quick dinner and then head to the Waquoit Bay Reserve Visitor Center, about a five-minutes’ drive, to attend a Tuesday night science talk. During April, they are hosting these Tuesday night talks to highlight research happening on the Reserve. Tonight’s talk was about carbon fixation in salt marshes. Karen and Peter Baranowski told me about the talks and it was great to see them there tonight. I came home and finished working that 1,000 piece puzzle that Lynne and I started (hurray, hurray),
but I didn’t get to the taxes today. I’m giving myself one more day. So that will be tomorrow’s BIG job.
by Judy Handley | Apr 1, 2019 | 2019 Life Logs |
2019 Life Logs, Day 91: The First of April
Date: Monday, April 1, 2019
Weather: Sunny but Cool; High 47, Low 27 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I spent this first day of April wishing it were a little warmer, but thankful for the sunshine. I had early morning PT, which ended up to be a longer session than normal, and then I spent my afternoon gardening. I worked outside to get the raised beds ready for planting and worked indoors planting some flats for starting more seedlings indoors. I’m hoping the seedlings we planted in Heather’s garden on Sunday survive tonight’s freezing temperatures. When I checked the weather on Saturday, it showed ten days of low temps above freezing. April Fool’s. That has changed and now the low for tonight is forecast to be 27 degrees F—well below freezing. I’ll head over there in the morning to spray them water which should help a bit and hope that most of them survive. The only thing I planted outside here today was hardy sugar pod peas. Tomorrow I’ll start my day with a walk and then a visit with Bruce and Jane Woodin. They have been traveling, so it will be good to catch up. Then I need to come home and get serious about filing my taxes. Wednesday is my deadline. If they are not done by then, I’ll have to pay H&R Block to do them again. Then I pick up Ollie and Jonah after school. It will be a busy day.
