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Title: Steve Bathrick
Caption: Darren (Pulver) was already here and Steve came soon after. The idea was to move two stones we had delivered from Pleasant Vally Stone. They were for two steps for the Poustinia. The little one room cottage we sometimes use for guests. Roberta Crosley, Our first tenant, who was of Polish extraction called the little house a Poustinia, a name we liked. The name connotes a small cabin used as a religious retreat. Steve had a machine that should have made it quite easy to move the stones. The delivery man from Pleasant Vally left them as close as he could to the cottage. Steve's machine as not quite the machine I was expecting. The fluid in the hydraulic lift on the top part of the machine sprayed out and that section wouldn't work. After a couple more mishaps the stones were set in place. Darren had to shift the soil in order to get the stones level. Steve hadn't been over to do work here fro some time. His son Andrew and then his son Travis took over the mowing and Andrew plows our driveway. They used to come work with Steve here (see past entries under Bathrick) but by and by they grew up and wanted to take on the work as part of their working lives.
Date: October 16, 2021, Saturday

Title: Gabriel Wolfsburger
Caption: Gabriel came over to see Catherine's (Murphy) two newest finished paintings before they were shipped to NYC for her exhibition in November.
Date: October 14, 2021, Thursday

Title: Kelly Vinett
Caption: Kelly dropped off a drawing I had left at Pamela Salisbury gallery. This is a drawing that we didn't put in the exhibition and was in the closet. She also brought extra catalogs from the Vassar show. Yesterday we took down the exhibit at the Pamela Salibury Gallery. Kelly is an assistant to Pamela and studied with me at Vassar College.
Date: October 5, 2021, Wednesday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben came to work for us.
Date: September 24, 2021, Friday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben came to work for us. He spent part of the day working on a photograph for China 1987, installment 12.
Date: July 22, 2021 Thursday

Title: Benjamin Busch
Caption: He visited.
Date: June 7, 2021 Monday

Title: Ruperta Aquino
Caption: Rupurta came to work.
Date: May 25, 2021, Tuesday

Title: Self Portraits: 2021
Date: September 24, 2021

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Josh and Chie came by to drop off a Xmas present for us. We gave them some Millionaire cookies and some lemon squares in a reusable roasting dish.
Date: December 23, 2017, Wednesday

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Chie and Josh came by to drop off a Christmas Present.
Date: December 23, 2020, Wednesday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben got to work about 10:10 am because he hit a bit of traffic. First, he did the trash, then made coffee. Catherine and Ben discussed various cakes Ben could make for Sarah's birthday. Afterwhich Bern went to work on my China Project. Today he is working on the image of the entrance to the pool hall turning itto night from day. I spemnt the day working on this website as welool as on China. I am iusolating the sky from the image of the palm trees and large rock in the front of the swan hotel. The trees make this a particular painstaking operation. After we all had lunch the three of us went up toi Cathy's studio to do a simple temporary set up for a possible new painting. Ben and I spent the rest of thye day working on the China project,
Date: November 2, 2020 Monday

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Josh and Chie came for a visit. Josh had to be at Vassar to teach by 11:45 am. Catherine (Murphy) made a cake for them, so we served it along with mint tea (mint from the garden). The brought a whole box of great looking pastries. We visited and looked at work in the studios. Chie was going to drop Josh at Vassar, go home to Beacon and then pick him up at 5:00 pm.
Date: October 20, 2020. Tuesday

Title: Tim Liefer, Dana Kilgore
Caption: Tim and Dana worked on the replica of our patio in Catherine's (Murphy) studio.
Date: October 15, 2020 Thursday

Title: Jean, Darren, Aliah Pulver
Caption: They worked in the garden. When we are far apart they don't wear masks.
Date: October 15, 2020. Thursday

Title: Tim Liefer
Caption: Tim came to modify the facsimile of our patio that he built in Catherine's (Murphy) studio. The facsimile is for a painting Catherine is going to start soon. He cut off 3 feet from the back end and with a lever pushed the structure back to the balustrade. He did this by himself and rather speedily. We thought he would need another person and that it would take longer.
Date: October 13, 2020. Tuesday

Title: Judy Linn
Caption: Judy Linn had some business at Vassar. She came to see Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) new paintings. Judy called and said she would bring lunch and we looked up the Thai Restaurant near Vassar Brother's Medical Center to tell her what we would like. She treated us to lunch.
Date: October 11, 2020 Tuesday

Title: Self Portraits: 2020
Date: September 24, 2021

Title: Visitors 2020

Title: Patricia Fagen
Caption: Pattie Fagen is the curator who is handling a show of my drawings at the Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. She came over to look through the work so we could start working out what would be in the exhibition. The exhibition will be from about the middle of June into a week or two of September 2020. After the studio visit we, Pattie, Catherine (Murphy) and O had cookies and tea in the house.
Date: December 23, 2019 Monday

Title: Sharon Hennessy and her daughter and her daughter's partner (I will be getting the name soon)
Caption: Sharon who Catherine (Murphy) first met when they were both at Skowhegan. (At that time an art summer school for students between their junior and senior years in 1966.) We saw her once since then but still many many years ago. Sharon has emailed for the last three years to see if we could get together around this time of year. She lives in California but comes to this area at Christmas time to visit her daughter. We were supposed to go to Montreal for Christmas but Billy wasn't feeling well so we were home and able to visit with Sharon. We had enough snacks for everyone's dinner. It was nice to see her after all this time. And also to meet her daughter and her daughter's partner.
Date: December 22, 2019

Title: Judy Linn
Caption: Judy came here on Tuesday and the three of us, Catherine(Murphy), Judy and me drove up together to Williamstown to have Christmas at Billie Finn and Arthur Salvadore's house. (see William Finn and Arthur Salvadore December 24, & 25 in Groups). Today the three of us drove back to Poughkeepsie.
Date: December 24 and 25, 2019, Tuesday and Wednesday

Title: Kallie Lampel
Caption: Kallie brought the newer car to Al's because the low oil light was going on. He waited while they did an oil change. We then had lunch. After which, he did some chores and then went to Adam's Fairacre Farms to buy some things. We tried to deal with too much data on the computer. After which we went over to the heated studio and tried to make sense out of some of the photographs, partly to see if we could find the missing China photos. I couldn't take that for too much longer because the disorganization made me want to hit my head against the wall. So that's why now we are doing input on the computer.
Date: November 22, 2019 Friday

Title: Aaron Strang from Culligan
Caption: Aaron started delivering salt here more than a decade ago. A few years ago other people came and when I asked where Aaron was. I was told he wasn't well so stopped delivering and worked in the office. So, it was a surprise to see him at the door. He said he was feeling good and he looked fine.
Date: November 22, 2019 Friday

Title: November 11, 2019
Caption: The dining room. Hyde Park, NY
Date: November 11, 2019 Sunday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon came to work. He did some of his chores and then Simon and me and Catherine (Murphy) went up to Catherine's studio to fix the seat on one of her chairs. Then we went over to the dutch barn and organized the summer outdoor furniture. We had an early lunch before starting to work on the site. When Kallie got here at 1:00pm the three of us worked, are working, on the site so that Kallie could get a beginning idea of how it worked. First we're going back over to the dutch barn so Simon and Kallie could vacuum and straighten up the studio. When that is done Kallie and Simon are going to remove the air conditioner to the bedroom, put down some storm windows, and that should be all we have time for.
Date: November 2, 2019 Sunday

Title: Kallie Lampel
Caption: This is Kallie's 2nd time coming to the house, and the last visit was for us to meet him. As of right now the photograph from the last visit may be lost. Today, as we are writing this Kallie, is going to help with some things, but more importantly, he is going to start learning how to do various things on the computer including how to make entries onto the site. Simon (Tosky) is going to be leaving for a different job and suggested Kallie take his place.
Date: November 2, 2019 Sunday

Title: Colin (wrong first name) Travis
Caption: Colin did the excavation of the trench for the waterline. He was recommended by John Slizewski (see last two entries).
Date: October 9, 2019, Wednesday

Title: Tracy Petty
Caption: Tracy met John here to assist with the waterline (see last entry).
Date: October 9, 2019, Wednesday

Title: John Slizewski, Sterling Pump
Caption: John had discovered the problem with our water. Today (not actually) he came over with Tracy Petty to meet up with the excavation man, Colin Travis to dig the trench and put in the water line between the house and the well. The excavating was tricky because of trees and garden. Colin is very good with the excavation machine, so it looks like we won't have any lasting damage. (see next two entries).
Date: October 9, 2019

Title: Mike DiGiacomo and Sons
Caption: Mike of Mike's Tree Service came to give us an estimate for taking down a large sickly Maple tree and to look at the cable on the tree against the dutch barn.
Date: October 8, 2019, Tuesday

Title: Rena Fogal
Caption: Rena emailed to tell us they were heading south from their house upstate and would it be possible to stop by and say hi. We hadn't seen them for a while and were very glad to have them come for a visit.
Date: October 6, 2019 Sunday

Title: Anne Bogart
Caption: Rena (Fogal) emailed to tell us they were heading south from their house upstate and would it be possible to stop by and say hi. We hadn't seen them for a while and were very glad to have them come for a visit.
Date: October 6, 2019 Sunday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: I had to be at school by 9:30 am this morning, so Simon very nicely agreed to come to work at 8:30 am. I wanted to have some time before I left for school to show him some ins and outs for a model he was going to make. After I left for school Simon did various things, but I wasn't home, so I did not witness them. I got home from school at about 3:35 PM. Simon and I went to the Dutch Barn to continue setting up my sculpture models. We had gotten a new table last week. Simon showed me the new digging he did for the water line from the well to the house, which was fine. While I went over some things for school, Simon worked in the basement. Now we are sitting on the porch and typing what you are reading.
Date: October 1, 2019

Title: John Slizewski and Tracy from Sterling Pump
Caption: John came to check on the water line between the well and the house. He brought Tracy with him, of which I was quite pleased because I was able to draw for some of the time they were working. John did the snaking of the water line routine to see if he could hear where he thought it might be clogged. Now that Simon had done quite a bit of digging he was hoping to hear it more clearly, which he did. John now dug for a while to follow the sound so he could unearth the waterline, which he did. He detached the coupling and snaked up the line going in the direction of the well. All kinds of crap came out of the line with the water. The diagnosis was the original line is compromised beyond repair. So that we could have water, he attached a hose above ground from the well to the house and had asked me to ask Simon to better uncover where that connection was visible, so he could better get at it. As soon as the hose was attached our water pressure increased 100 fold. He now needs to contact an excavator and arrange for a ditch to be dug for a new line. This is all very unnerving because of tree roots and the garden. His schedule is very tight, but he will have to get the line put in before we get freezing temperatures.
Date: September 30. 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon got here early (9:00 am, his usual time is 10:00 am.) It was supposed to be sunny and the earlier time enables Simon to set up Catherine's (Murphy) painting when I am at school. It turned out not to be reliably sunny, so the painting wasn't set up. Simon had to come to school to pick up a bag of tomatoes that I accidentally brought with me. Then he went to the supermarket to get various things and to pick up Singapore noodles for Catherine for dinner tomorrow when I am at a critique. He also got lunch for himself at the Chinese restaurant. After moving a new table to the Dutch Barn he resumed digging a hole near the house to try and find the water pipe. Our water pressure is terrible and John from Sterling Pump thinks he found a blockage. When Simon locates the line we are going to look for the place where the plastic hose is connected to a metal line. Now we are typing this caption and we'll try to get to some more entries.
Date: September 24, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon helped Catherine Murphy set up for her paintings and also continued to clean and organize the basement.
Date: September 4, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: We had Simon come at 9 am instead of 10 am (his usual time), so he could help Cathy set up for her morning painting (Pails). When he got here he did his regular morning routine, after which he helped Cathy set up. When he was done with that we did my self portrait and this photograph and now we are working on this site. From time to time Cathy (Murphy) will call Simon to help move her painting, when Simon isn't here I help Cathy setting up. After lunch Simon will help Cathy set up for her afternoon painting (Camo). We will work some more on the site (I assume). I have a doctors appointment this afternoon.
Date: July 27, 2019 Friday

Title: July 27, 2019
Caption: In my studio in Hyde Park, NY
Date: July 27, 2019

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon got here at 9 am so he could help Cathy (Murphy) set up for her morning painting which he did. After that he switched stools for, hopefully, one more comfortable for Cathy's (Murphy) afternoon painting. Simon went off to Kentucky fried chicken to get the new special for our lunches, but the one in Poughkeepsie didn't have it, so he went and got us lunch at Wendy's. In the afternoon he went to home depot to get Cathy a tarp for one of her setups and while there he bought some plastic for covering my sculptures and new drill which we needed desperately. I forgot to take Simon's photograph.
Date: July 24, 2019 Wednesday

Title: Ben Keddy
Caption: Ostensively Benjamin came to work with me on this site. But on Saturday he spent a good part of the day sharpening pencils for Cathy (Murphy). We went out to dinner with Judy Linn. First to the Egg at the Culinary Institute of America. We didn't realize on Saturdays most of the stations at the restaurant are closed. So from there we went to Mizu Sushi restaurant in Hyde Park. On Sunday, Ben and I spent part of the day working on this site. Cathy and I went off to Peter and Sean's for dinner and Ben stayed home and sharpened more pencils. He went home Monday morning.
Date: July 20-22, 2019 Saturday-Monday

Title: Judy Linn
Caption: Judy came over here and then Cathy, Ben, Judy and I headed off to the Culinary Institute of America to have dinner at the Egg. The Egg is the student cafeteria which is also open to the public. We didn't realize that most of the stations are closed on weekends. So instead we went to Mizu Sushi in Hyde Park for dinner.
Date: July 20, 2019 Saturday

Title: Steve Bathrick, Cory Bathrick
Caption: They came to mow the lawn.
Date: July 20, 2019 Saturday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon got here early today so he could help Cathy (Murphy) set up for her morning painting (Pails). He put stakes in the ground by the stool for Cathy's painting (temporary title: Camo). Then he cleaned out the back of the volvo. We are now working on this site. Soon we will be having lunch and possibly spending much of the afternoon working on this site. _
Date: July 19, 2019 Friday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: After he first got here Simon and I worked on a few things together. We picked up the station wagon from Al's. After lunch we brought the two lawn mowers to Adam's to see about having them fixed. The Toro was not fixable, so I bought a new one. The other one we left for repairs. Simon re-fixed the screening to cover the Pails for Cathy's painting. In the afternoon even though it was insanely hot, Simon and I mowed the path through the woods, which was way overdue. I forgot to take his picture.
Date: July 17, 2019 Wednesday

Title: Lee Brown
Caption: Lee dropped off (from Catskill Art and Office) a number of tubes of paint for Cathy (Murphy). Last week I was at Davies Hardware and the station wagon went dead. Luckily Lee walked by and he gave me a jump from his car. He also showed me a image of the book cover of his upcoming book to see what I thought of it.
Date: July 16, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Aliyah, Jean, Darren Pulver
Caption: They came to work in the garden, except for Aliyah, who played.
Date: July 13, 2019 Saturday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon came to work.
Date: July 12, 2019 Friday

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh, Catherine Murphy
Caption: We decided to go to the student cafeteria art the Culinary Institute of America. It was a rather nice space and the food was acceptable.
Date: July 11, 2019 Thursday

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