Island Sunday

On Friday I started cutting wood for the kitchen island. Yesterday it rained all day so, since I work on the deck I couldn’t do anything. I did laundry instead. Today was cloudy windy and DRY so I spent most of the day on the project. I’m fitting the island under a 50’s style Formica tabletop. It is rectangular with rounded corners and presents some interesting design challenges.

If I shape the cabinet to match the rounded edges I limit the storage space available. If I don’t I make a compromise on the appearance. I chose to go for storage space and make it look as good as possible.

We ate our first meal of the pulled pork for lunch today and it was good. I like cooking the pork. It is very forgiving and always seems to come out good. The ribs were great also.

I also finished the Harry Potter series today. It certainly goes out with a bang. I’ve now gone back to listening to my podcasts. I have 6 months of podcasts backlogged—many hours of listening.

As I casually rinsed off our lunch plates today my thoughts drifted to the disaster in Haiti. Here I was using lots of water while there are literally millions of people there who have no running water, let alone roofs over their heads. While conserving water here would have no real affect on the Haitians, the fact that I have water available any time is a blessing that I have always appreciated. The biggest inconvenience I must deal with is waiting for the water to get hot when showering because the hot water heater is at the other end of the house. On 60 minutes tonight they showed bodies being scooped up by a front loader and being dropped into a dump truck to be buried in a mass grave. The sight of human arms and legs dangling over the edge of the shovel of the loader as it lifted the bodies really drives home how serious this disaster is. Be thankful for what you have.

We have only 2 months until the river run and I have just begun my “training”. Between being sick and then taking medication that left me feeling little ambition to do anything I’m wondering if I’m going to make it this year.