So I got on Craigslist and looked for $500 Volvos. There was nothing that cheap, but another red one in Essex. There was a white V70 for $800, but it needed their struts replaced, which would be something like $500! There was also a ’97 blue GLT in New Haven, near dad’s house, but it […]
So I finally got around to replacing the control arms on the Volvo. I started on the driver’s side and the frame bolts loosened easily, but the ball joint clamp bolt refused to budge. I tried using PB Blaster and then a propane torch but only succeeded in setting fire to the rubber ball joint […]
I have hired Finn Yarborough from Earth House Productions about four times now and I always chide him that he has to hire me someday. Well, he sent me an email a couple of weeks ago saying, “The day has finally come!” Finn had made a little video about a rice farmer in Ferrisburgh who put together […]
It only rained a little bit, but it was like the time we brought the German kids up there. in the cloud, about 50 feet of visibility, 40 MPH wind, enough moisture inside the car to start dripping off of the overhead hardware. We opened both front doors and watched the cloud go through the […]
Yep, today Olivia and Errol brought Olivia’s friend Lilly to Mount Washington. Audrey was going to go but was asked on a 3-night camping trip at a campground in Groton, so clearly she went there. We did the whole bit, prepped the day before, I got up at 4:15 AM to take a shower. Woke […]
I am testing things here…
This week was warm and sunny, 70˚ days, not a cloud in the sky for almost ten days. We moved the RV, hand washed all the crud off of it, cleaned out the interior, and got it ready to move away for a bit. I got the tires inflated on the old minivan and I […]
Over the last week I’ve been getting things together to tow the Volvo. I finally found my tow rope, which is 30 feet of static-line rope with steel caribeners on each end. The 30 feet double back and forth over three circuits, so it’s about 10 feet long with 6 bands of rope between the […]
I made an appointment to get the front end aligned at Dona’s Car Store. Errol and I took it over and went to the Grand Union while we waited. When I got back it wasn’t in the alignment bay, but in the shop on a floor jack. Bear came out and told me that both […]
Errol turned 4 today. We woke up at about 7 AM, just minutes after he was born. Errol refused to accept that he was four because the party hadn’t happened yet. It seems that he feels that until he blew out the candles, he couldn’t be four yet. We have a great time. There were […]
Went to Norwich immediately after dropping the girls off at school. Worked there for five hours. I replaced the Sullivan and Theater DVDs and reprogrammed the Theater controller. I also checked the projector, it acted OK while I was there. I relit the exhibit space and tweaked some other lights. and I stopped by the […]
School is a half day and Audrey has an orthodontist appointment. I dropped Olivia at school and took Audrey and Errol down to Barre. Audrey’s appointment was just a brief check, we’ll go back in the summer. Next we went to the Chopper of Prices, Romaney’s Staples, and Petcolnad. I priced some folding folding tables […]
Spent the day at the office prepping for Norwich, didn’t finish and had to go back in the evening and stay up late.
Errol and Olivia were playing in the back yard. Errol kept hearing high-altitude jet planes and thinks that it’s thunder. He insists that Olivia come inside so she won’t get rained on. At one point they were chasing each other around the yard and Errol ‘hit the tree with his eye’. Errol was screaming and […]
Brad “Bear” Ingalls was our union local’s President for the last several years and was one of the original posse that made the local happen.
He had come to the last meeting, as he seemed to be getting better. But by Equinox he was down again. TJ, the vice-president went to visit him on Mar. 22 and he was clearly not well.