2023 Life Logs, Day 150: Potpourri
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Weather: Sunny; High 62, Low 47 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was a potpourri of activities … boat, Encore meeting, Encore shopping, starting the moving process, doing laundry, dealing with the new computer that is having issues, and going to Ollie’s end-of-year band concert.
I started the day by going to the boat to put a second coat of anti-fouling paint on the dinghy. When I left, I took one more photo of the boat and the dinghy next to it which triggered a flood of then and now moments. Over the past two months, so much work has been done by me, Heather, Jed, and the Goldpebbles. On April 4, I started the removal of old varnish.
On April 6, the bottom of the boat was soda blasted to remove the build-up of bottom paint.
The boat now has all of her teak cleared of old varnish, cleaned, and teak sealed. Her bottom has two new barrier coats and two coats of anti-fouling bottom paint. She has a shiny new green waterline stripe. Her top sides have been polished. Water and electrical systems have been improved. The booms, the mast, the bimini covering, and anything else that got in the sights of Ollie has been rid of dirt, mold, and mildew. The dinghy bottom has been painted with anti-fouling. I am sure I am leaving things out and I am sure there are more things that could have been done. But she looks great and is launched tomorrow. The name Eider has been removed from the back of the boat. After the renaming ceremony, she will be called Ardenna, a genus of seabirds that include shearwaters. Shearwaters, just like this sailboat, use a “shearing” flight technique of flying close to the water, seemingly cutting or “shearing” the tips of the waves. Go, Ardenna!
By 11:30 am, I was in an Encore planning meeting. I went home to walk Shadow and then took him with me to the laundromat, to shop for some items for an Encore event on Thursday, and to deliver four boxes of books to the library for their July book sale. This is part of the moving process that must accelerate over the next four weeks if I am to be moved by July 1. I dropped Shadow at home and went to meet with Art Gilbert who has been working with me on my issues with the new computer. He has exhausted what he can do. But tonight I talked with Heather and Jed and they think all of the problems stem from the fact that I am trying to upload everything on the computer to the cloud. They had some suggestions that I will try before taking the computer back to Best Buy.
Then came the best part of the day, Ollie’s end-of-the-year band concert. He loves playing the saxophone and I enjoy watching him. This was a combined 5th and 6th grade concert.
I am constantly amazed at the quality of music instruction in this school district. It is very impressive.
