During our first three years of married life, Ron and I have done battle with each other’s demons:  mine from Rose Cohen and Marjorie McLean and his from his ex’s.

I realized this morning that Peter and Bonnie were right; I have been suffering from brain chemistry imbalance, for lack of a better descriptive, resulting from abuse and possibly pre-natal stress.

Ron’s been neglected, betrayed and taken advantage of, both by one particular member of his family and his ex-SO’s.

I have a lot of bad memories, mostly around work.  For years, I was in the wrong type of job and I still have problems in environments with a lot of other people.

Ron is helping me to heal and I hope to be doing the same for him.

Meanwhile, my New Year’s wish is to live in a place where our neighbors like us and where we “fit in” socially.  That would require either that we move or that some households around us change.  Time will tell.

It’s been a week and apparently Ron’s body talked itself into recovery for fear he’d have to go to the doc otherwise (argh).

I think I’m finished with converting preowned to NEPS “look”.  Too much work, ridiculous.

Went to the Senior Center today.  Went to Steering and Emma’s opening last evening.  Got Chinese for supper.

It was cold today.  12 degrees right now.

The jasmine started blooming today! Sweet plant, tough as nails.

I got a tooltips example to run by minor brute force and finally gave up on bower. What a nuisance, this tutorial notwithstanding. Setting PATH was ridiculous. I ended up having to edit the registry because it exceeded 1024 characters.

Feel like I wasted the day. Haven’t even read the NYTimes biz section yet.

I did take about three hours to listen to and read along with the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Moby Dick marathon. An excellent use of time, come to think of it. I enjoyed the experience thoroughly, first time venturing into the book. Followed along a bit last night as well, especially Chapter 40. It gave me a small insight into Melville’s genius, both literary and psychological.

We’ve skipped all the live music planned for this weekend: Wepecket, Higher Ground, WHFMS.

Did the transfer station run. Quite a bit of recycling and trash today. The transfer station was quiet, mercifully.

Day 5 and Ron still feels miserable. I’m getting the idea that whatever he caught isn’t the same bug I had. He’s promised to call the doc if he’s not better by Tuesday.

Season 4 of “Downton Abbey” starts tonight!

Watched the fourth quarter of one of the best football games of the season, San Francisco versus Green Bay, played in 3 degree weather.

Ron cut down two trees at Edgewater – one in the front and one in the back – plus pruned back on Dixon and cut down the cherry tree at Lori’s
Woods Hole Folk Music Society
Discovered that Ron’s Revolutionary War ancestor was a Minuteman
Collected signatures at the West Falmouth Post Office to shut down Pilgrim
Ron got new “toys”: saws, at least two, mitre and chain.
New garden next to the back stairs here, Emme designed the layout; new daffodil/narcissus garden in our small “bosquet”
Robert’s graduation
Fireworks at Willowbend
Ron switched from disability to normal retirement
Fourth of July at Ed’s
Wes and Susan came to visit
Watched the Fire Ball ceremony and heard Emma play at the PowWow
Hummingbirds in the back yard
Attended lectures at the Jonsson Center
Was Emme’s taxi to and from her job at the Falmouth Chamber
Summer trip to Newport with Emme and James: Green Animals Topiary Garden, Kite Festival
We lost our Mr. Fluffles
Cape Cod Conservatory big band at the Craigville Tabernacle
ron was quoted in the Mashpee Enterprise story about the Wompanoag Language Reclamation Program
I had an article on workplace bullying pubished in the Cape Cod Times
Craigville Beach bonfire and rock band; Ron danced – in public!
Visited the Rooneys in Martha’s Vineyard
Waved to the tourists from Oak Street overpass on Labor Day weekend
Fixed the kiosk at Santuit Pond Estates
Anti-war demonstration in Orleans in September
Wepecket Island Records concerts at the Wamsutta Club, New Bedford
Ron finished sanding and cleaning the deck at Edgewater!
Blood donations
Visited Blithewold
Santuit Pond cleanup with the Mashpee Conservation Commission
Got our street removed from the no-plow list
Dissolved my company, CapeCoder.com, Ltd.
Miserable tooth extraction
Rally at K-Mart plaza in Hyannis to shut down Pilgrim
Had heat lamp installed in the bathroom
Visited Betsy, David and family in Jaffrey for Thanksgiving

We are very lucky:  never lost power and never lost heat.  Easy shoveling, but a LOT of snow: it was up to the level of the back deck.

…this is not a bad place to be.

The big storm started this morning.  Street is already white.

Ron woke up sick as a dog.  Poor fellow!

Focused on minor storm prep yesterday, like taking down the outside lights and garland.  Got everything put away this morning.  Much easier without a tree!

Yesterday, cooked up all of the organic farm bacon and made scrambled eggs for breakfast.  We barely ate the rest of the day, it was so filling.

Stopped by to see Cathy last evening.  I had a Christmas gift that had been misdirected.  Chatted briefly with Mary on the phone.

Got my d3 apps to work with a bit of tweaking.

Flurry of email correspondence with the Falmouth Chamber about the Forum on RaiseUp issues.  I was of the misimpression that Chambers set their own agendas, but nay: they do their masters’ bidding.

The weather outside is frightful; but the electric fireplace is so delightful.

I paid two bills due today.  We went to the Senior Center for day-olds.

Spent most of the day troubleshooting websites but everything is working now.

Dropped off the old New Year’s Eve celebratory items we used to use at Newport Overlook to Peter’s.  Hope the kids enjoyed them.

After First Night, I brought Ron home, then went to Stop & Shop.  The bon mot du jour goes to a gentleman shopper who came out of the store the same time as I did:  “It’s cold out here!  I want to go back.  They even have food!”

We went to Sandwich for First Night again this year.

Unfortunately, Ron is coming down with the same bad cold that I just got rid of. It was bitter cold, not a good idea for an ailing person, so we called it an early night.

The Village Band

One of the trees at Town Hall

First Church

Fish or Snoopy?

Members of the Who Dat Jazz Band

Daniel Webster House

Many ladies of all ages, and at least one man, wore these headpieces.

Fairy Garden, Daniel Webster House

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