Democracy
This grand experiment of Democracy is under attack. Democracy requires seeing what is, as well as what you want.
Interesting that those waving the flag the hardest are actually supporting a “king” instead of a Democracy.
Kayaks
I’ve finally ordered a couple of kayaks. This was the result of some searching, reading, and research. I’ve done some canoeing in the past, but not really kayaking. I had to try to understand the verbiage: what is “calm” water versus “flat” water?
I looked through Craig’s List and other used options. At the end of the day, I realized that we aren’t going to be doing a ton of advanced activities with the kayaks, so getting the “basic” model was probably appropriate.
We both agreed that we wanted a “sit-in” instead of “sit-on-top”. We wanted something on the lighter side and stable.
Thus, I’ve ordered the most affordable model that I could find. We have a couple of Lifetime Cruz 100 kayaks on order. Delivery is scheduled for 10 days. I also needed to order a rack to carry the kayaks. That has been completed.
Fortunately, the kayaks come with paddles. We’ll still need to pick up some lifejackets.
Cabinet
I’m still working on building the kitchen cabinet. I’m learning a lot through the process. I’m hoping that the end result is acceptable. No matter what, I’m hoping that what I’m learning will pay off in the future.
Painting
Rm and D1 did some painting over the weekend. I wish that I had the talent that they have. They both do such wonderful, beautiful pictures.
Dinner Out with Hazel
We headed to Grateful Grain with Hazel for dinner. We’re working on culturing Hazel to noises and crowds. Rm made some excellent chicken sandwiches, including toum. However, it turns out that, apparently, lots of other people had the same idea. There were no parking spots available. The outside seating was completely full. Dang. This isn’t going to work. I remembered that Olive Pit Brewing was in this general direction, so I proposed a change of venue. Off we head. As we are getting close, Rm lets me know that we are in her 14 minutes, as we hit some construction. All is good as we arrive, it’s open, and not packed.
The food was excellent. The beer was good as well. Hazel behaved. We did move from the outside to the inside, mostly due to a motorcycle that kept going around. Hazel did some barking at people walking by, but not horrific.
We’ll go back to Olive Pit Brewing.
Student Project
I met with a student on her project. I put together three web page options for her. We reviewed them and she was really happy with one (the one that I predicted she would like). It’s great to be able to help a kid in some small way.
AutoCrat
I set up and showed our Transportation Director an AutoCrat workflow. He’s been copy/pasting a bunch of information to create Trip Sheets for the bus. Earlier, I had set up a form for him. He was happy that the form saved him lots of time and energy.
When I showed him the AutoCrat workflow, he was ecstatic. This will save him hours of time.
BBQ with Friends
Meeting new people when you’ve moved can be a challenge. We found a couple of terrific ones here in Maine. We recently had a BBQ with them. They shared their house, they have a wonderful, historical home that they put a ton of work into.
The BBQ was wonderful. The friendship was even better.
I am slightly jealous of the exceptional woodwork that Joe does. He’s done a fantastic job of redoing the headers that support the house.
MOOSE
MOOSE will be coming to a close by the end of the month. Our assignment this week was to review work that is being done by other groups. I discovered that our team is in pretty good shape. We still have work to do but are getting pretty close to being done.
This week I’m going to try to create a video for an introduction and overview. I’m thinking it should be a cartoon-based video.
