Paul in empty swimming pool. Photo by Peggi Fournier.The swimming season came to an abrupt end this year when emptied the pool in order to paint. This only the second time the street pool has been painted since it was put in in 1960. I took the opportunity to try to get the underwater light out so I could repair the short. It worked when we first moved here and it is especially nice on warm summer nights when we bring friends down.

Peggi and I sent out a bunch of emails yesterday, inviting friends to the opening of my photo show at the Little Theatre on Sunday. We setup a shared email list some time ago and then recently. got one of those really confusing messages from Apple asking if we wanted to merge or discard conflicting contacts lists. We clicked merge and wound up with duplicates and old discarded email addresses in one big mess. Consequently we inadvertently spammed our friends wit duplicates.

So we buckled down and riddled our contacts down to only people whose name we recognize, who we wouldn’t mind hearing from, and those who are still living. The people at companies we used to do business with they all went. Peggi and l laughed as I read the names before selecting “delete.” Henri@snippetmaster.com! Bill@visibleware.com! All the DuPont addresses. Our original email address – sunra@aol.com! AOL hell we used to call it. MortimerShy@rochester.rr.com and all those who left us. Sparky, our next door neighbor, never had an email address but his street address was in there. Our list has dropped from 2500 to 400 and I’m still working it.