Awake 5:09 am Temp Downtown=53 Sunny 19 hrs & 21 min of daylight
After breakfast, Kathy & I make a BIG decision for our next step in the
housework program....we WILL paint the lower garage(formally my
laboratory). We didn't want to do this...a garage is a garage & they are
not suppose to be squeeky clean but....my laboratory was a busy, active &
productive operation during our years here & it really could use a face
lift.
After moving the remaining equipment & stuff outside, Kathy heads downtown
to buy more paint & more groceries while I start vacumming & cleaning off
the walls.
My 1st cousin Florentz calls from Pennsylvania..a keeping in touch call.
He's been having a busy summer repairing equipment for the family,
friends, neighbors, etc. He also picked over a gallon of fairly large
strawberries on our property back there. Florentz is retired & over 70.
Before Kathy returns, I take another break & call our good friend Rochelle
in Washington State. She & Dean are storing our Suzuki auto @ their home
during our Alaska time this summer. We also talk some real estate stuff as
they sold their home themselves 12.02.02. Also talk with our Goddaughter
Monica. She knows us better since we've spent some time at their home 1st
week of May. She talks well for her age...soon to be 6, quite smart & is a
very pretty well mannered young lady.
I'm on a roll now...so I call my old buddy John here in Anchorage. I
haven't seen or talked with him since April 14th. At that time we talked
of my using his woodworking shop to build a new flower box for the front
of our home. So I ask him today if that offer still stands & he tells me
the workshop is mine. I will plan on this & let him know when I can start
on this project.
I get back to the garage cleaning just in time for Kathy to catch me
working diligently on the walls. She changes clothes & gets right with the
painting plan. Being a little shorter, she covers the lower areas & I
cover the high areas. Our borrowed ladder is gone now so I have to use a 5
gallon bucket to step onto a 30 gallon barrel which has another 5 gallon
bucket on top of that. That gives me enough height to reach the ceiling.
We finish one wall of three..then call it quits @ 7:30 pm.
9:30 pm Dinner: Whole wheat noodles with spaghetti sauce, chicken breasts
& fresh salad. Kathy watches the 10:00 pm news during my kitchen cleanup
time. Then some computer browsing. Lights out: 12:02 am
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