Monday 17 May, 2004

Monday 17 May, 2004

Monday. 17th of May Awake: 5:23 Temp downtown= 47 Clouds & windy

As many of you already know, my blushing bride of 33 years & I have been
traveling in our motorhome away from Alaska for over two years now.
Having our principal home in Anchorage and being away from that home
nearly half of the time is beginning to effect our new lifestyle so.....we
have decided to sell our home this summer and live full time in our home
on wheels. It's a little scary for us but also very exciting having that
new everyday adventure opportunity. Based on the information above, many
of my future journal entries this early summer will be covering the many
touch-up's & fix em up's that we should be doing to enhance the sale of
our Anchorage home.

And so: After my cereal breakfast this morning, I installed new drawer
runners on both drawers in the center Island in the kitchen. Later this
morning, I drive Zack over to the Foote's condo ( a 20 minute drive)
where he, Melissa, Kevin, little Matthew in the baby backpack & friend Amy
will be hiking up part of the Flattop mountain called: Blueberry Hill. It
will be Matthew's 1st hike. Time for the hike, about 1 hr. After I drop
off Zach for the hike, I shop at Hardware Specialties at 54th & Arctic for
3 more drawer runners to replace on our kitchen cabinets. Then drive over
to Spenard Builders Suppy to get some paint rollers & a handle for Kathy
so she can start painting our bedroom tomorrow. Then drive to Home Depot
to have my brick sliced for fixing the cosmetic trim around our kitchen
oven....something one wouldn't notice unless they looked very closely. I
am back home @ 1:40 pm.

The Footes & Zack arrive back from their hike @ 2:15 & we all eat a cheap
lunch of dry & rubbery turkey burgers plus some decent tasting ham, bean
salad & cranberries left over from Saturday's dinner. My reconditioned
Swiss Jura coffee maker arrived via FedEx from Atlanta today. After some
3500 coffee cycles and over 3 yrs of usage, it was due to have new
gaskets, " O " rings, etc. But, I am too busy today to open it up & get it
ready for tomorrow's early morning java.

While Kathy is sanding the dining room window ledges, I am replacing
drawer runners on two kitchen cabinet drawers. It's a different kind of
challenge because the local hardware suppliers do not have available exact
replacement runners so I have to improvise. I could not fine neither the
necessary half inch lengths nor the same type of glides.

Katrina has a dinner engagement elsewhere tonight so it's the Footes,
Zack, Kathy & I for dinner at our local Thai restaurant. This has been a
great place for us for casual dining...12 min away, good healthy food at a
most reasonable price. The kids have taken advantage of this restaurant
more so than their stay-at-home parents. From here, the Footes return to
their condo & we go back to our house & watch another movie from the vast
& classic collection of Zack's CD's: " Godfather II. " It was excellent
and even Kathy stayed awake for most of the bloody action scenes. Lights
out: 12:21 am