Wednesday 08/13/2025
First order of business was to join a party for a hike led by Joanne. There were four of us, Joanne, Joanne the other one, Erika and me. All three women are enthusiastic walkers. I tag along and try to keep my breathing from being too audible. We went to the Arastradero preserve and did a total of 3.5 miles in about 2 hours.
After lunch I turned to two chores from that list. One was that my kitchen sink wasn’t draining. I had this problem just two years ago, day 4.259, and I did exactly what I wrote in that entry, took off the p-trap, cleaned out a glob of ugly sludge, reassembled.
Also I discovered Monday that the freezer compartment of my little half-size fridge was looking like a scene from Frozen.
So I spent half an hour getting a cubic foot of snow and ice out of that. I am really puzzled by this. Two things. One, now that the freezer box is clean and open, I can see that it has no drain hole of any kind. It’s a plastic box, with a fairly tight-fitting door. So if the fridge did a defrost cycle, where would the water go? And two, why did it fill up with ice like that? Maybe I need a new refrigerator?
Anyway with those things out of the way, I practiced a little music and had a nice nap. After supper we had a lecture by a bright young woman who wrote a book about Sam McDonald. I had known the name only from Sam McDonald County Park, a big patch of wild redwood forest in the hills to the west. But he was a well-known figure around the Stanford Campus from 1900 to the 1950s, as well.
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