preserving memories

 this is Puffalump - he stole my heart.  He has been adopted and I just hope that he is happy.

 this is John - he is my beautician here and he does a wonderful haircut for me.  It looks good even when it has grown out and is in  my eyes.

 this is Charles Car.  Unexpected - he has it finely tuned to make a racket as he drives to work.  I can always tell when Charles has left the parking lot.  He has over 200,000 miles on the clock and he works on it himself.

 this is Charles and his fiancee.  They have since been married  They live in Unit 2 of our old building.

 This is another shot of Sir Puffalump.  He is a magical cat.

 the ultimate gym rat.

 Around here it seems to be the fashion to haul your canoe or kayak around on the top of the car.  Seems to be a symbol of affluence or lots of spare time.

 specially built rack to hold the kayak in place.  Most people I know just have bike racks on the back.  guess there is just not enough water in Prescott to have a large segment of the population tearing around with kayak holders on the roof of the car.

 the morning we had a heavy dew, the spider webs all showed up looking like patches of snow.  The small spiders spin their webs and wait all night for food to fly in and be captured.  No food in these webs today but loads of tiny water droplets making them quite visible and decorative along this hedge.

 The golden rod is spectacular this year.  This stand is on Riggs Brook Lane.

 Bill doing his digitizing of the court records for Washington county.  The court papers come with additions or appendages that are secured to the main court record by sealing wax.  Here Bill has covered the main paper and has a black piece of paper under the appended piece to digitize it.  After the digital image has been taken, he puts the papers back into the manilla folders (closest to the camera) and then puts them back into their lignen free box.

this is what it looks like to work on the York county papers.  The collections on my desk top running from left to right are 1. The tractor feed no longer used or needed paper that is placed between the moistened court papers to keep them flat.
2. is the pile of flattened out humidified papers from the York county collection.  After the papers are put in the humidifier, they bring them to me to be placed between these tractor feed papers to keep them flat till they can be put in to the gray box standing on my table in the upper right of the picture.  for last week I filled 6 of those boxes with papers.
3. the third pile of paper on my table is the acid free/lignen free typing/photocopying paper that they have given me to annotate with court case information.  The paper is then put with the court papers pertaining to it into the Grey Box.  In time, someone will be here to digitize these boxes full of papers.   There are about 300 pieces of paper separated out into court cases in each box.
4.  the fourth item on the top right hand of the table is the volume that has a short write up of the case plus the docket number.  Each of the separating papers contains the following information - the name of the plaintiff and the defendant, name of the court, term of the court, whether it is new entries, continued entries, settlements of some sort etc. and on the far right the page on which this information appears and the docket number.
 They have given me large manilla folders to put these papers into, and when I have about 50 cases per folder, I put the folder in the box and when the box is full, go get another box and work to fill that also.
The folder on the left hand side of the Box contains court cases etc. that I cannot find in the book. The staff can find these for me and put them in the appropriate folders/boxes.
to the left of this folder is my laptop.  every so often I have to take a break from writing and sorting and do something totally different - if I did not do something totally different every few hours, I think I would go running into the traffic screaming. 
this is really exacting work.