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Yesterday was largely a day of satisfying things.
S was able to make plans to go sailing with P. This was kind of a big undertaking, because this trailer needed to have some work done on it, plus the boat needed a good cleaning, plus the schedules and weather had to align.
Towing the O'Day with Big Red seemed to go okay. S came home very tired and sunburned, but it seems he and P had a great time. On his behalf, I am very satisfied, because I know just how hard it has been to orchestrate this expedition!
Originally, I was going to accompany S to help with rigging and launching the O'Day, so I got most of my weekly chores done Saturday afternoon so I'd have a window of time to help out early Sunday morning. But as it all turned out, my usual weekly Scrabble game time wound up interfering with that plan, and S pivoted to launching from Henry Hudson Park anyway, so I found myself with some extra time Sunday morning.
That meant I had time to punch some ducks!
I've been out of ducks to give for a while. I'm pleased to have some again. Yes, I make that joke every time.
Since I had vacuumed on Saturday, that also meant that I could do some mopping on Sunday, while S was out of the house. It's easiest to mop when I'm home alone, because if both of us are around someone inevitably needs to walk through the kitchen in the midst of the mopping. The mopping was badly needed, is all I can tell you. I even managed to get some wood floor polish applied to part of the dining room floor, and now that part looks so good! And I even wiped down the basement steps! So satisfying. There was also a half-assed effort to clean some windows and mirrors in there, somewhere. Better than they were before.
For the afternoon, I headed down to the boathouse to try and tackle at least a couple of the things on the long boathouse project list.
I spent some quality time with some of the club's singles, mostly just trying to get a sense of their condition and what repairs they might need. This is partly in the interest of building a list of parts to order so we aren't just doing one-off emergency orders.
As part of that, I tracked down the riggers and seats for a boat that has been on loan to the club:
It is very satisfying to get all of the club's equipment better situated. I do enjoy finding and organizing things.
I also spent a few more minutes in the shipping container filled with supplies and tools:
There's still work to do to get this space better organized, but in this case I put some storage boxes away, and then got a small donated shelf moved into a spot where I could start putting painting, cleaning, lubricating, and finishing supplies on it:
You can see on the lower right that after a certain point I stopped trying to put every single can of spraypaint onto the shelf. But it is so helpful to finally be able to see what's here, most especially so we can get rid of the stuff we don't need, like the 800 different kinds of wood stains, and the chalkboard paint. And now I have a better sense of what things I might want to get so we have more of the stuff we actually need and use.
After that, I moved to the shed to inventory some regatta supplies. Here I am partway through the project of putting all of the regatta bow number cards in numerical order:
You can see from this picture that we have lost some of the bow number cards over the years, and that people have industriously made replacements in at least some cases. Many of the replacement cards are terrible, however, and there are even more numbers that have gone missing in recent years. But it was very satisfying to get what's here into numerical order. I then did a voice recording inventory so I now know exactly what needs to be replaced and can get the replacements ordered in a timely fashion.
And really, these are all excellent projects to have undertaken, in the name of getting ready to roll my sleeves back up to work on manuscript-writing, the highest priority work project for July.
S was able to make plans to go sailing with P. This was kind of a big undertaking, because this trailer needed to have some work done on it, plus the boat needed a good cleaning, plus the schedules and weather had to align.
Towing the O'Day with Big Red seemed to go okay. S came home very tired and sunburned, but it seems he and P had a great time. On his behalf, I am very satisfied, because I know just how hard it has been to orchestrate this expedition!
Originally, I was going to accompany S to help with rigging and launching the O'Day, so I got most of my weekly chores done Saturday afternoon so I'd have a window of time to help out early Sunday morning. But as it all turned out, my usual weekly Scrabble game time wound up interfering with that plan, and S pivoted to launching from Henry Hudson Park anyway, so I found myself with some extra time Sunday morning.
That meant I had time to punch some ducks!
I've been out of ducks to give for a while. I'm pleased to have some again. Yes, I make that joke every time.
Since I had vacuumed on Saturday, that also meant that I could do some mopping on Sunday, while S was out of the house. It's easiest to mop when I'm home alone, because if both of us are around someone inevitably needs to walk through the kitchen in the midst of the mopping. The mopping was badly needed, is all I can tell you. I even managed to get some wood floor polish applied to part of the dining room floor, and now that part looks so good! And I even wiped down the basement steps! So satisfying. There was also a half-assed effort to clean some windows and mirrors in there, somewhere. Better than they were before.
For the afternoon, I headed down to the boathouse to try and tackle at least a couple of the things on the long boathouse project list.
I spent some quality time with some of the club's singles, mostly just trying to get a sense of their condition and what repairs they might need. This is partly in the interest of building a list of parts to order so we aren't just doing one-off emergency orders.
As part of that, I tracked down the riggers and seats for a boat that has been on loan to the club:
It is very satisfying to get all of the club's equipment better situated. I do enjoy finding and organizing things.
I also spent a few more minutes in the shipping container filled with supplies and tools:
There's still work to do to get this space better organized, but in this case I put some storage boxes away, and then got a small donated shelf moved into a spot where I could start putting painting, cleaning, lubricating, and finishing supplies on it:
You can see on the lower right that after a certain point I stopped trying to put every single can of spraypaint onto the shelf. But it is so helpful to finally be able to see what's here, most especially so we can get rid of the stuff we don't need, like the 800 different kinds of wood stains, and the chalkboard paint. And now I have a better sense of what things I might want to get so we have more of the stuff we actually need and use.
After that, I moved to the shed to inventory some regatta supplies. Here I am partway through the project of putting all of the regatta bow number cards in numerical order:
You can see from this picture that we have lost some of the bow number cards over the years, and that people have industriously made replacements in at least some cases. Many of the replacement cards are terrible, however, and there are even more numbers that have gone missing in recent years. But it was very satisfying to get what's here into numerical order. I then did a voice recording inventory so I now know exactly what needs to be replaced and can get the replacements ordered in a timely fashion.
And really, these are all excellent projects to have undertaken, in the name of getting ready to roll my sleeves back up to work on manuscript-writing, the highest priority work project for July.
