Monthly Archive: May 2016

trim trim

Dave and his saw came over cutting trim, trim, trim, all around the edge of the living room, once with baseboard, then with quarter round along the floor, and manufacturing little bits that make...

goodbye, Dr. Castaldi

strange to be in downtown Stamford where I’ve spent time over many years – Curley’s, Mill River Park, working in Landmark Tower, Champion building, the Financial “Centre”, going to the Ferguson Library, Capriccio’s, shopping...

yard work 3

spread five small bales of hay in the vegetable garden barely covering one third of it shopped at Gilbertie’s bought parsley, rosemary, thyme (English) lavender (silver), Greek oregano and fuzzy oregano “Dittany of Crete”...

yard work 2

tackled the upper yards today pruning raspberries and butterfly bushes removing dead branches from the lilac maple saplings, sassafras suckers from the shade garden pulling up wild mustard with its white flowers yanking out...

yard work

pruned the butterfly bushes pulled up maple seedlings cut maple saplings too big to pull weeded peonies in side bed refreshed the thyme and sage pruned our side of the thick hedge cut out...

barn love

took mom to the cardiologist today bookended between tea at Tusk & Cup and the Pond Trail at Topstone on the way home captured photos of my favorite barns subtly examining my attachments grateful...

turning point?

probably the wrong way to phrase it living moment by moment, you wouldn’t notice but grabbing onto miniature milestones seems helpful especially when they cluster today’s the public hearing on the subdivision I started...