Author Archives: tbavendam

Days I do Habitat, I drop Carli off at James at 630 AM. This was waiting for me this morning. So sweet. However, he wanted me to wear the ballon around the Habitat site today. We have had a lot of rain over the past several days. Thursday and Friday, they worked in rain. YesterdayContinue reading “The best way to spend Mother’s Day”

Two friends for my Krakow trip and 3 women I have not traveled with yet are heading to St. Remy de Provence – arriving May 19th and returning on May 28th. Yesterday I went to AAA to get an International Driver’s License. I am not sure who the old woman is in this photo. WeContinue reading “Getting ready to travel again”

Wednesday the cabinet guy came to install the “tower” on top of the granite only to discover that the granite installers installed the back splash when they should not have. When I saw the granite last Friday after the installation I saw the back splash and thought the cabinets must be notched out for theContinue reading “Let there be light”

It was a clear day without wind as we started turning wall panels into walls; securing them to the foundations, sheathing them and top plating. In the photo to the right, two stacks are the exterior and interior walls for one house. Below is a foundation waiting for walls. Above is the house I workedContinue reading “An amazing day”

I can hear the footsteps of the man who lives above me. He is an early riser so if I am awake or near awake I hear him. This morning I heard him and then at some point later I heard other footsteps. There were quieter than his and tonally different. The next thing IContinue reading “Footsteps in the early morning”

Yesterday was a busy day with health care visits. I saw my cardiologist at 9 AM; dentist at 10 and neurologist at 1 in 3 different locations. Thanks to genetics I have a lot of plaque in my heart vessels so my lipids are being monitored carefully. All is well. My dentist is still outContinue reading “The spikes are off”

Thursday night I attended the taping of Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me at the Tennessee Performance Arts Center. It was memorable for a number of reasons. It was my first time at TPAC and it will not be my last. The only thing I did not like about the theater is that it does notContinue reading “Wait, Wait”

I started volunteering at Nashville Tools for Schools in December of 2021. This group of retired guys meet Monday-Thursday mornings in a very nice workshop. My first day there, they had labeled one of the two bathrooms for Ladies. They have had a woman or two volunteer for short times in the past, but IContinue reading “Nashville Tools for Schools”

While I wrote the letters to Allegiant and Princess yesterday, I needed to mail them today. There is not a mail box on this property. People just put the letters on top of the locked mail boxes which makes me a bit uncomfortable even though when I have done it, the letters seemed to arriveContinue reading “You gotta laugh….”

Pain: I have been putting off writing my letters to Customer Relations regarding my cruise suitcase not making it to San Francisco and the bad Customer Service that led to us almost not getting on the cruise. I find complaining pretty painful and I am not sure I expect anything to come from either letterContinue reading “Pain and Joy”