Muchacho Polaco

good times!

It has been over 30 years since I last stepped foot on Mayn Island. But really it’s been closer to 40 years since I spent any considerable amount of time on the island. However a month or so ago we did a little reunion with Cousins and sister and partners and stayed on the island for a few days. It was a memorable experience to be sure. What’s odd is how distorted things get in the memory and I was surprised to find that much of my recollection was off as it related to where things were located et cetera.

We stayed at the Mayn Inn which is the hotel right down the street from where my grandparents used to live. It was burnt down when I was younger and therefore not in operation. Not long ago had been restored and is now fully functional. And I might not ridiculously overpriced.

I really like Donna and Allison’s partners. Donna is married to Paul and Allison is with Matt. Both are very different and a lot of fun to hang out with.

Yun was on the news recently being interviewed. We did a spectacular job and we were all very proud.

Last weekend was our second attempt to use the camper this year. Our third attempt in total. Fortunately the weather dipped into the low 40s overnight and was 70s during the day. About the best we could ask for. We still have a hard time getting there early on Friday night. Still, we found a spectacular place and got set up pretty quickly.

I bought a little ramp for my mini bike so loading into the back of the truck is so much easier. The campers mostly packed up now so we only have to bring this stuff we’re going to use like food and clothes. So the setup and takedown goes much quicker now. On this trip we had all of the appliances working and running water certainly makes a nice difference. The electrical is great because we upgraded the inverter and now seems we have plenty of electricity. I did order some ryobi battery Chargers so I can use my ryobi batteries to charge laptops and phones. I brought three laptops in hopes that I would have plenty of battery life along with 5 small battery Chargers, but still it was insufficient. I did get a lot of work done over the weekend which was always a bonus.

I’m hoping to go back sooner than later and maximizing the use of the camper this year. We were waiting to go to this weekend so unfortunately that’s not going to happen and then I leave for Dublin on Thursday with the guys. Maybe when we get back.

I love the isolation. We have thousands of acres of BLM land for our own use. This is a plus with the dogs.

Our morning walk this morning.We nearly ran into this little family. If you look closely you can see one of the kittens in the background.

Although still in the hundreds in the day it drops to the mid sixties in the mornings and evenings which makes things very pleasant.

We are so very excited to have our new windows installed. I paid for them back in April and it’s taken this long for them to be made and installed. Installation took less than three hours. In the future I will order the windows myself and have my regular worker install them as that will be much more affordable and faster.

We had the windows custom made for our needed sizes and wanted our indoor and outdoor frame colors to be different (tan insided, brown outside). There’s a gas between the panes which tints them when the sun hits them theoretically will reduce the temperature inside the old ones were so bad that this is a massive upgrade for us. We only did 3 yesterday and we’ve got a lot more to do.

As much as we would love a new washing machine the old one works really well so it’s hard to justify purchase of a new machine. In this case the shocks had gone out and so I paid $15 in labor to repair it.

We spray pretty religiously to prevent these guys showing up in the house . However, we don’t spray inside the sheds and last night I was stung once again on my left hand . This is my third sting. First time was on my back and the second two now have been on my hand. The hand is far worse in that it radiates down the entire arm and makes it feel like it’s on fire. Today my entire arm is numb, which is better than what it felt like last night.

I spent last week in Scottsdale for a work-related conference. We stayed at the Westin which was pretty phenomenal.

AE puts this event together and provides everything – including hand-rolled cigars and whiskey bar that I quite liked.

And it was HOT for this time of year!

Our washing machine died this week… and we have lots of wash to do. So we found a laundromat in town to get that done while we await repair or replacement. The last time we did t this was the first month of marriage.