Month: August 2010

Celebrating Jeff’s 40th at Nancy’s in Oak Bluffs.

This fall we are redoing our porch, so I walked around the Oak Bluffs campground today taking photos of porch details for inspiration.

What the fuck, man??

(Really “West Tisbury Farmers’ Market”)

We flew stunt kites in Ocean Park today.

We were not the only sailing vessel out of Edgartown on a for-hire sunset cruise tonight.

Kat and Chris waiting for their drinks at our favorite pre-dinner-drink spot on the island.

My glasses broke at the bridge Friday morning.  I fashioned a temporary repair out of aluminum flashing bent into a tube, filled with Gorilla glue, and darkened with a Sharpie (Lis said “Of course you did”), which got me through the day.
 

Lis brought home a praying mantis from work today! They found it in the museum, and Lis figured our garden would be a better spot.  Here it is guarding our basil plants — maybe it will catch whatever’s been eating them.

We’re getting our floors redone; they got the sanding and first coat done today.  When a woodworker says a water-based finish “raises the grain” of a piece of wood, this is what he means: it swells the different components of the wood structure differently, leaving a rough texture.

We are having our floors redone, so Parker is staying with Lis’s mom.  He looks like he’s settling in just fine.