1) August has come to an end. The time of Queen Anne’s Lace is over. This year my favorite month included a much quieter than usual week in Provincetown, Hurricane Laura blasting through the Old Hometown, and of course renovation of the kitchen (ending its third week today). I continue to be grateful that no one I know was killed or injured by the hurricane, and that so very many people have strongly-held opinions about shades of white paint.
1a) I was reflecting at one point last week that I miss my life with people.
2) Massachusetts holds its primary today (in which over 900,000 have already voted), and I was fifth in line at my polling place when I arrived four minutes before the polls opened. They moved the polling place to a larger space at the high school, which has a different entrance. After I’d completed my ballot, I was asked very respectfully to slip it into a manila envelope with a poll worker since they were having trouble with one of their machines. I trust the poll workers at my polling place - we are familiar to each other after all these years, if not on a first-name basis - but I can imagine people having issues with that procedure if they didn’t. I can’t imagine that temporary solution flying too well on Election Day in November.
3) The workmen have returned to lay the floor tiles today (I’m sure at the end of the day I’ll do another kitchen reno entry), and I’ve already been asked back to a) verify how the tiles should be laid out, b) reassure them that there were enough tiles for the pantry (different pattern, and a larger size tile), and c) how to resolve where the two different tiles connect at the pantry entrance since the tiles aren’t the same size (I don’t really care, but if it’s truly awful we’ll add a threshold).