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May 8, 2025: Late at Night

It still gets dark late at night, say around 11:00 p.m. In a month’s time, it will be dusky. I enjoy having the daylight – tonight I took Tyra for a ride, which is something I had not done for a while. She has a new saddle – it fits Pete. My saddle doesn’t fit me. Okay, so I will in the near future need to get a saddle that fits her that I can ride. Not immediately though. We just purchased two new saddles, one for Pete who rides Tyra and one for me who now rides Hrimfara.


Pete won’t be riding for some time because he can only use his left hand. Plus, if he were to come off (which is very unlikely) he might injure his right, dominant hand – the one that he had operated on.

Pete seems to be doing amazingly well. It was a wise idea to wait until after school was out before going under the knife. He doesn’t have to worry now about classes or doing any writing – I think the past two days for him have been somewhat relaxing. Somewhat. Because we are so heavily involved in the book project our lives are seldom relaxing.

I did found time this evening to work on Shelf Life – at the end of the day of course. I am working on the section on our relations with VCRS, the recycling center. I have not written anything incriminating – rather, the main idea that I am attempting to get across here is that no one quite knew what to do with an overabundance of books. Cardboard, cans, mixed paper, office paper, yes, but books, no. They were not set up for this. And then I appear and bring the touchy subject of what to do with the books to their attention. The staff did not handle this very well.

Had they had foresight, this would have benefitted their organization. They have ignored this fact.

Today I met with Tom, our realtor friend, and we first talked about available properties, this in preparation for Monday’s Rasmuson visit. I had always wanted (since its sale) to check out the interior of the building that once housed the local laundromat. Today I was able to cross this want off my list. I accompanied Tom and his assistant McKenzie over to the site. They got the key the realtor left behind – and we entered the building. It reminded me of the Igloo Hotel near Cantwell. What remained, after the building was gutted, was a shell – lots of trusses, holes in the roof for ventilation, walls with insulation on them, and some terrible graffiti on the wall that was held together with plywood.

I sort of agreed with Tom that this place should be low on our list because, as Tom said, “It would need a serious makeover.” Sort of. I saw it through Pete’s eyes as having potential. It is a large, 4,000 square foot room, and it has a lot of potential.

I still am going to hold out for the Eagle Hotel, but this place is now a close second.

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