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Title: AAAA Robert Walker Window and Gutter Cleaning
Caption: Marge came with her crew to clean all the windows in the house and in the cottage, and the outside of Alec's apartment. Marge who I think now is the owner of AAAA Robert Walker still keeps it's original name. They also cleaned out all the gutters on the house and on my studio building. Rodney got here much later than the rest of the crew. As always they did a terrific job.
Date: November 19, 2018

Title: Aaron Strang
Caption: Aaron delivered salt for our water softener from Culligan. He has been coming to our house for at least 8 years or so.
Date: January 18, 2018 Thursday

Title: Aaron Strang from Culligan
Caption: Aaron delivered salt to us and filled the water softeners. The reason Aaron's last name is in parenthesis in all the entries except for this one, is because this is the first time I asked his last name. So the others were added later.
Date: August 31, 2018, Friday

Title: Andrew Bathrick
Caption: Andrew came to cut down the long grasses at the top of the field.
Date: October 15, 2018, Monday

Title: Andrew Bathrick
Caption: Andrew came to pick up a check.
Date: June 17, 2018

Title: Andrew Bathrick
Caption: Andrew came by so i could pay his bill for plowing the driveway.
Date: February 05, 2018, Monday

Title: Andrew Bathrick
Caption: Andrew came to collect a check for snow plowing this winter.
Date: April 03, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Art Movers, Oscar Sarinana, Holly Sarinana
Caption: Oscar and Holly were sent by Catherine's (Murphy) gallery to pick up the painting packed and bring it down to the gallery. When I took their photographs and explained that I take everyone's photographs that comes to the house, they asked about Jehovahs Witnesses. Holly said "We're Jehovahs Witnesses."
Date: April 23, 2018 Monday

Title: Arthur Salvadore
Caption: Arthur stopped by to pick up his remote control sailboat that he had loaned us for our anniversary party.
Date: August 24, 2018 Friday

Title: Barbara Paige, Judy Dollenmeyer
Caption: See Groups February 24, 2018 Market Street and Upstate Films.
Date: February 24, 2018

Title: Ben Busch
Caption: Ben stopped over on his way from Sherburne, NY (I'm pretty sure). He ate dinner here with us and Ben Keddy (see last entry). He spent the nigh and left before we got up in the morning, because he had a meeting in NYC.
Date: April 02-03, 2018, Monday

Title: Ben Keddy
Caption: Ben came over so he could have dinner with us and Ben Busch. We had St. Louis ribs and homemade cornbread. See next entry. He spent the night and the next day worked on this site (putting data back into the correct order) and did some stuff of his own.He left wednesday afternoon, and I went off to a critique at school.
Date: April 2, 2018, Monday

Title: Ben Keddy
Caption: Ben came up last night to go to the Tom Friedman talk and dinner. I left the house around 3:45 and Ben arrived at about 5 o clock and picked up Cathy and brought her to Vassar. He spent the night had breakfast with us, brought his car in to be fixed, and worked a little bit on my site. Right now he's in the shower and is planning to leave to get to the city in time for a date at around 6:15.
Date: April 24-25, 2018 Tuesday and Wednesday

Title: Benjamim Keddy
Caption: Ben arrived on the 14th of August and stayed at least through the 19th. He was helping us in various ways to get ready for our 50th wedding anniversary party on the 18th. Some evenings he went back to New Jersey to work for Uber, but usually he came back to sleep here except for one night; I can't remember which one. On the day of the party (the 18th) he spent about 4 hours vacuuming the Dutch barn. Some time on the other days was spent trying to get the remote control boats going as well as the remote controlled flying shark.
Date: August 19, 2018, Sunday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben and I mostly worked on this website. See same photograph at beginning of 2019
Date: December 31, 2018, Monday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: November 30 - December 1 --------- Friday morning Benjamin went to Davis and Langdale to pick up the works of mine that they had in the gallery. They are closing, probably at the end of December. He came up here with the work. We had lunch and then Ben and I went to the Hessel Museum at Bard to see The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004). Cathy (Murphy) was supposed to com with us but she had a terrible chest cold so stayed home. My responses to the exhibition were somewhat complicated. It was the kind of exhibit one is supposed to like. It had historical Importance, some very good artists and was the result of two gallery dealers that were willing to put out difficult work. But, from the first few minutes in the museum the exhibition put me in a bad mood. It felt too much like a research project, like the study of history. This was, in my viewpoint a result of the exhibition itself and some of the work. Too many long explicative wall labels. Though the labels were needed. I could have been interested in much of the work in the show if there wasn't so much of it. There was something relentless about the exhibition. Much of the work seemed pedantic to me. I lost patience. ----- Ben and I next went to Rhinebeck to get a birthday present for Helen Lang . I bought two Yotam Ottolenghi cookbooks, Plenty and Plenty more. We had about an hour after we got back to the house before we had to leave for the Formosa restaurant for Helen's Birthday dinner. Cathy was hoping that staying home all day would help her feel better for dinner. It didn't but she went anyway(see in Groups, Formosa restaurant, November 30, 2018). The next day Ben did more work for us. He photographed and enlarged some pages from John Yau's book on Thomas Nozkowski. Cathy is reading from the book at a tribute to John Yau at Poets House this coming Saturday. Except for meals Ben and I worked on my book, Haircuts, Self Portraits, 1988-2018. I am designing it in InDesign, a program that Ben knows much better than I do.
Date: November 30, 2018

Title: Breakfast / Brunch at our house 1 of 2
Caption: Some of Cathy's (Murphy) family came down from Massachusetts for the anniversary party, yesterday. We decided it would be nice to have them over for breakfast.
Date: August 19, 2018, Sunday

Title: Breakfast / Brunch at our house 2 of 2, The Wallace Family
Caption: Some of Cathy's (Murphy) family came down from Massachusetts for the anniversary party, yesterday. We decided it would be nice to have them over for breakfast.
Date: August 19, 2018 Sunday

Title: Bruce
Caption: Bruce came to deliver propane
Date: March 22, 2018

Title: Canvassers for the election of Anthony Delgado
Caption: These three young women came to canvas for Delgado for congress. I had done the same thing the week before.
Date: November 05, 2018, Monday

Title: Chad Fust
Caption: Chad came to do some more work on recording the images from the surveillance cameras for Catherine (Murphy) drawing., "Outside our house".
Date: March 30, 2018, Friday

Title: Chad Fust
Caption: A few days before this entry I called Chad at school (Vassar College) and asked him if he could come over and assess the technical situation with the surveillance cameras for Catherine's (Murphy) drawing. So he came over and went through the manual for the cameras and it's recording device, looked at the extender we installed. He came to the conclusion that we would need more equipment, that he would order and install.
Date: February 10, 2018 Saturday

Title: Chad Fust
Caption: Chad came to look at the wifi situation for my studio across the driveway. It turned out that, for some reason, the optimum reception was surprisingly good so we didn't need to put in a special arial between the house and the studio.
Date: June 22, 2018, Friday

Title: Chad Fust
Caption: Chad brought the new equipment he ordered with him. He used it to reroute the wifi signal through the wiring in the house so that we would get an uninterrupted signal upstairs into Cathy's studio so that she can work on the surveillance camera drawing.
Date: February 13, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Chad Fust in Fedora
Caption: Chad came to fix the internet for Cathy's Drawing
Date: March 27, 2018

Title: Chie Fueki
Caption: Referencing Mary Ping's talk and dinner at Vassar College.
Date: October 30, 2018

Title: Chris and Jimmy
Caption: Chris and Jimmy who both work as painters at Vassar came over to assess painting the trim on the house and my studio building. From time to time I would have lunch with Chris and Mark Briscoe.
Date: August 02, 2018

Title: Christina Tenaglia
Caption: Referencing Vassar College
Date: August 28. 2018

Title: Christina Tenaglia
Caption: Christina was thinking of coming to Vassar to have lunch with me and Tom Friedman and the students, the day after his talk at Vassar. I decided it was too complicated here to go, and when I called Christina to talk about it she brought up the other thing she wanted to do with me, which was to go over the images of student sculpture work from last turn. This was because she is planning the student sculpture show which will go up in a few weeks. So i suggested that she just have lunch here with me Cathy, Simon and Ben. Then we could talk about student work.
Date: April 25, 2018 Wednesday

Title: Christmas Dinner 1 of 4
Caption: Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.
Date: December 25, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Christmas Dinner 2 of 4
Caption: Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.
Date: December 25, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Christmas Dinner 3 of 4
Caption: Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.
Date: December 25, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Christmas Dinner 4 of 4
Caption: Christmas Dinner, see same entry 4 of 4 for details.
Date: December 25, 2018, Tuesday

Title: Corey and Linette
Caption: Corey and Linette, two Jehovah's Witnesses cam by to talk to me (the person who greeted them), about religion. There was a third person with them who waited in the car. We talked pleasantly for a while and when we were all ready to end the conversation they left.
Date: June 2, 2018, Saturday

Title: Darren Horvath, Tim Liefer
Caption: Darren was in from Virginia for a family funeral. While here he was visiting with Tim. We haven't seen Darren for a number of years, so Tim brought him over to say hi. See Visitors May 31, 1991
Date: February 16, 2018

Title: Darren Pulver
Caption: Darren was supposed to come with Jean Jean and the baby yesterday. The baby didn't feel well so we re-scheduled for today. Darren came himself because the babdy was still not feeling well. Dren worked in the garden and panted a small tree.
Date: April 29, 2018, Sunday

Title: Darren Pulver
Caption: Darren came to work in the garden for the last time this winter. In mid November he, Jean and Aliyah are going to the Philippines. The plan is for Darren to stay a month and for Jean and Aliyah to stay longer. While here he planted bulbs and cut down dead plants.
Date: November 11, 2018, Sunday

Title: Darren Pulver, Jean Pulver, Aliyah Pulver
Caption: Darren and Jean worked in the garden.
Date: November 03, 2018, Saturday

Title: Dave from Sears
Caption: I called Sears because our freezer in the upstairs refrigerator broke. We had to throw away tons of food, both raw and prepared (by Cathy [Murphy]) this was weeks ago, but it took us a while to get a appointment. The person I spoke to at Sears told me I had no warranty, so I said "Send him anyway". About two days ago I got a call from Sears asking me if I wanted to renew our service contract. I said, we have one? The woman said we did and it will expire early next week. I renewed our service contract for the next three years. Dave came over this afternoon and said we need a new compressor. He said it would be very expensive. Then I told him we had a service contract, he said there was no sign of it on our paperwork, and that I would have to call and straighten it out. Then make a new appointment and he would have to come back almost as if he never came over in the first place. Then we could deal with the compressor. I was instructed to wait til the next morning to call, so that what happened would be reflected on his paperwork. Hopefully you will see Dave on this site in a few weeks.
Date: July 23, 2018, Monday

Title: David canvassing for Jeff Beal
Caption: David (who wrote down his last name for me which I preceded to lose) was canvassing for Democratic Primary Congressional Candidate Jeff Beal. We had a good talk and by the end since I wasn't sure who I was going to vote for I decided to vote for Jeff Beal. Despite what was said by some people I thought IF he won he would be a long shot to beat Faso. Which I thought was very important, but nonetheless.
Date: June 20, 2018, Wednesday

Title: Dean and Hector - Central Hudson
Caption: Central Hudson sent subcontractor to cut down two trees that were dead and near the power lines. They did a good job generally. They left the main trucks, which they said they could do anything with them because they weren't supposed to and suggested I call Central Hudson to ask about this. I did and it seems as if they will send people to take care fo the trucks, hopefully.
Date: July 6, 2018, Monday

Title: Dinner at our house
Caption: Martin was in Scandinavia when we had our anniversary party. Jeanne came on Sunday instead of Saturday, so she missed the party. It precipitated inviting them and Tom and Joyce to dinner.
Date: September 1, 2018, Saturday

Title: Dinner at Our House 1 of 3
Caption: We have been trying to arrange a dinner here for a few weeks, First I had a cold/cough for about 8 weeks. At some point Cathy (Catherine Murphy) caught it. After rescheduling it seemed as if we were both over it and so Tom and Joyce could come to dinner. Tom has been ill so could not take a chance of getting a cold. We had also invited Eve and John and they were not that keen to possibly get colds as well. The day before Joyce called to see if Casimir could also be invited as he was coming up to visit them. Of course we said yes. In addition to Cas being an asset to any gathering we are very fond of him. For a few days Eve wasn't sure if the 17th would work for her because she was scheduled to go to CA. We would have rescheduled again but it turned out her knee was bothering her and she did not want to fly. I picked Eve and John up at the train station at close to 3:00PM. I needed to get a couple o things at Adams Fairacre Farms so I brought them with me. A bit after we got here we all settled on the porch for cheese and fruit and chicken Liver Mouse (from Raven and Boar Farm). At some point Eve left to take a walk. Tom, Joyce ands got here at 5:30PM. We put out, Tuna Tartar and rice crackers in the kitchen and also grazed on the food on the porch. For dinner we served, Brussel Sprout Salad, Monk Fish & Artichokes with Polenta (we usually make instant polenta but Cathy wanted to try the slow cooked kind, which we hadn't had for quite a while. It really made a difference in how much better it was). For dessert we had Cara Cara Oranges in Caramel and Almond Crescent Cookies. (see next two enties)
Date: March 17, 2018, Saturday

Title: Dinner at Our House 2 of 3
Caption: We have been trying to arrange a dinner here for a few weeks, First I had a cold/cough for about 8 weeks. At some point Cathy (Catherine Murphy) caught it. After rescheduling it seemed as if we were both over it and so Tom and Joyce could come to dinner. Tom has been ill so could not take a chance of getting a cold. We had also invited Eve and John and they were not that keen to possibly get colds as well. The day before Joyce called to see if Casimir could also be invited as he was coming up to visit them. Of course we said yes. In addition to Cas being an asset to any gathering we are very fond of him. For a few days Eve wasn't sure if the 17th would work for her because she was scheduled to go to CA. We would have rescheduled again but it turned out her knee was bothering her and she did not want to fly. I picked Eve and John up at the train station at close to 3:00PM. I needed to get a couple o things at Adams Fairacre Farms so I brought them with me. A bit after we got here we all settled on the porch for cheese and fruit and chicken Liver Mouse (from Raven and Boar Farm). At some point Eve left to take a walk. Tom, Joyce ands got here at 5:30PM. We put out, Tuna Tartar and rice crackers in the kitchen and also grazed on the food on the porch. For dinner we served, Brussel Sprout Salad, Monk Fish & Artichokes with Polenta (we usually make instant polenta but Cathy wanted to try the slow cooked kind, which we hadn't had for quite a while. It really made a difference in how much better it was). For dessert we had Cara Cara Oranges in Caramel and Almond Crescent Cookies.
Date: March 17, 2017, Saturday

Title: Dinner at Our House 3 of 3
Caption: We have been trying to arrange a dinner here for a few weeks, First I had a cold/cough for about 8 weeks. At some point Cathy (Catherine Murphy) caught it. After rescheduling it seemed as if we were both over it and so Tom and Joyce could come to dinner. Tom has been ill so could not take a chance of getting a cold. We had also invited Eve and John and they were not that keen to possibly get colds as well. The day before Joyce called to see if Casimir could also be invited as he was coming up to visit them. Of course we said yes. In addition to Cas being an asset to any gathering we are very fond of him. For a few days Eve wasn't sure if the 17th would work for her because she was scheduled to go to CA. We would have rescheduled again but it turned out her knee was bothering her and she did not want to fly. I picked Eve and John up at the train station at close to 3:00PM. I needed to get a couple o things at Adams Fairacre Farms so I brought them with me. A bit after we got here we all settled on the porch for cheese and fruit and chicken Liver Mouse (from Raven and Boar Farm). At some point Eve left to take a walk. Tom, Joyce ands got here at 5:30PM. We put out, Tuna Tartar and rice crackers in the kitchen and also grazed on the food on the porch. For dinner we served, Brussel Sprout Salad, Monk Fish & Artichokes with Polenta (we usually make instant polenta but Cathy wanted to try the slow cooked kind, which we hadn't had for quite a while. It really made a difference in how much better it was). For dessert we had Cara Cara Oranges in Caramel and Almond Crescent Cookies. (see last two entries)
Date: March 17, 2018, Saturday

Title: Dinner Party at our house
Caption: This was our first dinner party since Cathy's knee infection, which means the last one we had was about three years ago. We served for an hors d'oeuvre's homemade gravlax with herb butter, capers, lemon, black bread, and gluten free bread for Elena. The first course was brussels sprouts and frisee salad (warm brussel sprouts cooked in butter, put on top of frisee and endive), Ossobuco over palenta (shown in photograph) with a gramelade (parsley,horse radish, orange zest, garlic), for desert we had Caramel oranges (from the new Christopher Kimball Milk Street Cookbook). None of the other couples had met each other before Sunday.
Date: February 03, 2018

Title: Douglas Degges
Caption: Douglas got in touch with us a number of weeks ago to say he was going to be in our neck of the woods and were we up for a visit (see Douglas Degges in the site's search engine). It has been a number of years since we have seen Douglas. He was nearby for the Wassaic Festival. We visited for some hours in the afternoon and then Cathy (Murphy) and I had to get ready to meet Judy Linn at the Fischer Center, Bard College to see Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan. My camera seemed to think the woods and birdhouse was more interesting to focus on than Douglas.
Date: July 22, 2018, Sunday

Title: Eleanor Acworth DVM
Caption: Toni (Antoinette) went crazy the last time we brought her to the vet. Elena Sisto told us about a vetinarian that makes house calls. At this point Toni was behind on two shots. So Eleanor Acworth came to the house to give Toni her feline leukemia vaccine, and Feline rhnotracheitis-calici-panleukopenia-chlamdia psittaci vaccine.
Date: March 30, 2018, Friday

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