greetings from Minnesota!
Jun. 7th, 2022 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingMy flights on Monday afternoon/evening went smoothly, and I arrived in MSP around 8:25pm. I spent the night at Nick's house (he is doing better, and is now working to get an appointment with Mayo Clinic for a specialized type of inner ear scan), as did Mom and Dad -- I slept on Nick's living room sofa, which is not really a sofa-bed but it's just long enough (and I am short enough) that it works as a bed in a pinch.
This morning Dad and I did a quick walkthrough of his and Mom's new house (a nice townhouse/duplex thing in suburb of St. Paul) and then drove up to Cass Lake. The drive took longer than planned, due to interminable road work (something something shoulders/medians) on north I-94, but we made it safely to the marina and the boat trip to the island was dead easy -- the water was literally mirror-smooth most of the way.
We currently have no functional internet, so I am using my phone as a mobile hotspot. It's all right for text-based sites, but it's utter shit for anything that involves images, let alone gifs and videos. Alas! Hopefully we can get in touch with Centurylink to fix the wifi soon.
Hmm, what else...
Our main task is to move the shore station outward along the dock (it's a very minimal dock this year, just four sections extending outward and no crosspiece or L-turn, due partly to unusually high water and partly to our dock guy having trouble finding staff) and then get it settled under the sand instead of sitting on top. Dad's plan is to hook it onto the back of our boat and slowly drag it along, while I walk beside/behind and keep it from bashing into the dock. We shall see if that works in practice.
We also need to clear some large fallen branches, lay the old boards around the edge of the cabin (for walkways in rainy weather), and assorted other cabin-opening tasks that got short-circuited when Nick had his crisis and my family had to book it back down to the Twin Cities last week.
Dad has a virtual Finance Committee meeting in about 10 minutes, and after that I think we'll tackle dinner.
This morning Dad and I did a quick walkthrough of his and Mom's new house (a nice townhouse/duplex thing in suburb of St. Paul) and then drove up to Cass Lake. The drive took longer than planned, due to interminable road work (something something shoulders/medians) on north I-94, but we made it safely to the marina and the boat trip to the island was dead easy -- the water was literally mirror-smooth most of the way.
We currently have no functional internet, so I am using my phone as a mobile hotspot. It's all right for text-based sites, but it's utter shit for anything that involves images, let alone gifs and videos. Alas! Hopefully we can get in touch with Centurylink to fix the wifi soon.
Hmm, what else...
Our main task is to move the shore station outward along the dock (it's a very minimal dock this year, just four sections extending outward and no crosspiece or L-turn, due partly to unusually high water and partly to our dock guy having trouble finding staff) and then get it settled under the sand instead of sitting on top. Dad's plan is to hook it onto the back of our boat and slowly drag it along, while I walk beside/behind and keep it from bashing into the dock. We shall see if that works in practice.
We also need to clear some large fallen branches, lay the old boards around the edge of the cabin (for walkways in rainy weather), and assorted other cabin-opening tasks that got short-circuited when Nick had his crisis and my family had to book it back down to the Twin Cities last week.
Dad has a virtual Finance Committee meeting in about 10 minutes, and after that I think we'll tackle dinner.
