I don’t feel tired physically, but pretty much on empty mentally. I could use a reboot, but short of a medically-induced coma, not sure how to achieve that.

We did the transfer station run and changed the bed sheets today. Picked up some meds and a griddle, ordered supplies for Robert’s senior project.

I’m staring at a lawn that could use mowing, a heavy raking and aeration. I hate the idea of schlepping big gas-driven machines from point A to here and back. There are parts of the yard that would benefit from a good watering, and I hate the idea of hauling around sprinklers and heavy hoses. I’m tired of looking at hot spots on the lawn.

Blah.

We stopped at Mac’s On the Pier in Wellfleet, then did our parking stint at Payomet for the Leon Russell concert.

As if his foot-in-mouth remarks in Britain, his selection of Paul Ryan and his ill-advised statement on the assassination of our Libyan embassy staff weren’t enough, Mitt Romney’s appointment of Robert Bork as the chair of his Judicial Advisory Committee pretty much guarantees that Barack Obama will be re-elected come November 6.

I can’t believe that this is the same person who was Governor of the Commonwealth and who ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate.

Is this the real Mitt Romney? Were we fooled back in 1994, or has Mitt suffered a medical condition that caused this radical metanoia?

I would suppose that the candidate’s recent reckless decisions are consistent with his Master of the Universe persona as a founding partner of Bain Capital. Perhaps I’m wrong, but it seems to me that his extreme right wing opinions are out of step with most US voters, and that he and his campaign must be aware of that.

Thus, the question: since he doesn’t seem to want to be President, what does Mitt REALLY want?

It’s finally starting to feel like Fall, and time to gear up for two nasty chores: the deck at Edgewater and thatching the lawn/lawns.

Today we went to the WWII air show. I got ready later than planned then made us even more off schedule by really messing up the location, but we spent as much time as Ron wanted. Then we went to Spaulding for the 2012 patient reunion.

We sat with a well-spoken lady from Falmouth and hope to talk with her husband about radon remediation.

The event was running quite late, though, and I’d planned to leave at 1 to go to New Bedford. So, we left before the lunch.

Turns out, the person I was planning to meet wasn’t coming in to the office. So, I managed to screw up our day. Ron was very understanding, much to his credit

I did some banking and paid some bills, rearranged the vine over the slider, watered and did a small amount of weeding in the front. Not bad, but pretty unsatisfactory, considering how I’d planned to spend the day.

We received our excellent “Move To Amend” flag today.

We tied up the big grasses at Edgewater. Ron sprayed with RoundUp and trimmed the grass here.

I’ll never forget the morning
When Grandpa ate the awning
To impress a pretty lady
Who went for men who were shady.
Anatole of Paris, lyrics by Sylvia Fine

One of the shades in the second bedroom collapsed this week. It was too small for the window that I had replaced a couple of years ago and I’d been putting off getting a new one since then.

I picked up a shade and it turned out to be a fraction too wide. No fault of the store, we hadn’t measured it accurately enough.

Ron brought the shade to the local hardware store to trim.

Meanwhile, I realized that we had the wrong kind of brackets. The old shade had been mounted over the window, not good. So, I went to a third hardware store and got brackets that allow the shade to hang inside the window frame.

Turns out that after the shade was trimmed, it was too narrow. When I tried snapping it closed, the shade “jumped” off the brackets.

This foolish shade already cost us about $16, ridiculous, so I didn’t want to get another one. So, I cut and painted a piece of wood shim and nailed it behind one of the brackets and added a shade pull. I think the shade will work okay now.

We did the transfer station run. I fed the plants in the front gardens.

We finally used our Beach House deal, and had an excellent dinner with equally excellent service.

After waddling home, we started hearing fireworks from across Old Barnstable Road. It was a very impressive display, and almost made up for the ones we missed on July 4. In some ways, it was far superior: no traffic and no parking hassles.

Ron admitted this topped the sound of gunshots that he heard sometimes from his apartment in Berkeley.

This morning, I visited C.L. Fornari’s gardens in Sandwich, a fundraiser for the Barnstable UU church. They’ve only been in that property for five years, and it’s amazing what she’s accomplished in such a short time. Really inspiring.

The St. Johnswort is flowering again. I don’t remember that from last year.

Morning glories started blooming.

I mowed and weeded yesterday at Edgewater. Pulled the extra post in the back yard out of the ground. Someone went to a lot of trouble to put it there, but why is a mystery, like the boat mooring that the septic installers got rid of for us last year.

Bought an inexpensive little bluetooth speaker so that we can listen to music from Ron’s Mac or his iPhone. Sound quality isn’t great, similar to a radio, but it’s nice to have music outside and in the living room.

Saw Peter yesterday. He looks MUCH better, more like himself. James was elected to Student Council! Not bad for his first week of middle school. He had to get 20 signatures to qualify.

After I had the oil changed in Fairhaven on Friday, I didn’t notice until leaving work that the hood hadn’t latched properly. It bounced all the way from New Bedford to Sandwich to Mashpee. On Saturday, I figured out how to fix it. I don’t know why no one explained it before, it’s not that complicated.

The part that “catches” the latch had seized up and just had to be freed with a screwdriver. It seems the spring and the cable are okay (knock wood). We cleaned and oiled it, and it seems to be okay now.

Finally got the O-F and PANA domains to point correctly. The PANA site is now reachable through a test domain, lonesomeroadsoftware.net