Awake 7:00 am Temp downtown 23 mostly sunny 5 hrs 34 min daylight
The Foote family arrive @ 8:00am. Kathy makes an egg & sausage casserole
with toast & jelly for a breakfast gang of 8. The sausage is from Nagoya,
Japan. A gift from Eriko's parents...& it is very delicious.
Late morning Kathy & I drive over to the Publix storage facility near
Costco. We look @ several size units & decide on a 10X20 heated unit which
will accommodate our RAV 4 plus furniture and boxes. These units are
fairly popular in town & our name, which was on the waiting list, came
thru @ the right time.
Next, I drop Kathy off @ Fred Meyer for grocery shopping while I drive
down the street to Andy's Ace Hardware for a few misc items on minor home
repair. Then pick Kathy up & drive to the Frigid North Electronics store.
Zack needs a "S-Video" cable & converter to connect his laptop to our DVD
player.
Then we visit FSBO for updating our contract with FSBO with the new
closing date. Teresa didn't get the paperwork revised yet so we'll stop in
next year & finish that. A quick library stop to return movies en route
back to our house. Home @ 2:35.
Our kids have been hanging out with board game playing & playing that
mesmerizing Starcraft computer game during our absence. @ approximately
5:00 pm, the Foote family leave for their condo to keep Matthew on his
schedule.
We are expecting James from Moore Heating to visit today to check on a
stubborn bearing on our furnace motor. All these yrs, I've always
lubricated these bearings twice a yr, spring & fall, but just last week,
one bearing starting squealing & no matter how much oil I fed it, it was
not happy.
6:30 Dinner: Italian beef, beef juice & sweet peppers on Italian bread...
all,except the bread from the Bouna beef restaurant in Downers Grove, ILL.
Zack, Nick & Katie's Christmas gift to Kathy...delivered via FedEx of
course. Kathy's so nice, she is sharing her special gift with the 6 of us.
After dinner, James arrives. He spends an hr working on our blower motor.
He brought a replacement motor along but it was not compatible. In the
meantime, he was able to get some oil onto that hungry bearing & no more
squeaking for now. So for now, I'll be listening & he'll be checking on
another replacement motor.
Late evening, we begin watching a movie from Zack's collection titled:
"Elf." About half way thru this flick, the CD began messing up, so he
switched to another movie, "The Incredibles." Even tho it's an animated
film, it was great entertainment. Eriko enjoyed it very much. Naturally
some of our crowd showed signs of disappointment when the "Elf"
failed...but no such signs from this viewer.
Zack will spend the night @ Katrina's apt. They will be snowboarding
tomorrow @ the Alyeska ski resort.
Lights out: 1:21 am
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