Awake: 6:05am Temp 53 Clear Overnight @ Nicktown, PA
We walk to the community center & do our workout exercises for 45
min….then join the elite coffee crowd for an hr……then back to the bus for
our breakfast.
@ 10:45, we pick up Florentz @ his house, drive to Indiana to meet with
the realtor, Elizabeth, who is helping the Foote’s realtor, Lisa. My 1st
cousin Florentz has volunteered to scrutinize the potential Foote house
with us. My cousin has a lot more experience & know-how when it comes to
physical structures & mechanical machines. After a good hr of checking
every room, closet, appliance, floor, bathroom & the basement, etc.,
Florentz gives it the thumbs up for being structurally sound & well built.
Some cleanup, painting, updating, minor repairing, etc is obviously
required. Kevin was also in the house during our careful scrutiny but his
attention was focused on: can this place be centrally air conditioned @ a
reasonable price & without the huge duct work? He was accompanied by an
air conditioning representative.
From the potential Foote house, we 3 drive over to the rented studio
apartment where Melissa & Matthew are waiting for our final report….which
we were happy to report to her as: “Good!”
After giving Melissa a few more details, spending a little time with
Matthew & making a few local phone calls, we drive to the Staples store &
send a letter off via FedEx to the Togari family in Nagoya, Japan. Then we
lunch @ McDonalds……Florentz’s choice!
Next we visit Florentz’s son Cyrus who gives us a splendid tour of his new
building @ the Indiana County Industrial Park. The offices & main entry
room are not quite finished, but from what we have seen on this tour, it
will be a showpiece of inlayed designs of different woods from around the
world. We watched a worker cut wood using their laser cutter & looked @
stacks of wood from many different countries. We looked over the U-Sand
assembly line & talked about the latest orbital hand held U-Sand machine
soon to be tested & marketed, we think. Our time is limited on this visit
so we thank Cyrus for his time & tour…then take Florentz back to his place
& we return to our bus in Nicktown.
K & I change clothes, drive over to Saint Augustine (30 min) & join Gary &
Rosemary for wine & a dinner outside of their 5th wheel trailer. It was a
nice, relaxing evening & we enjoyed a meal of: hamburgers with all the
trimmings, creamette salad, baked beans, celery, carrots & green peppers.
The green peppers, onions & tomatoes were fresh from the G & R garden. Oh
yes, for dessert: a slice of banana cream pie made by Gary himself.
Perhaps later this month, G & R will be moving into their new home just
about 50 ft from where we are eating. It’s a good looking house in a nice
quiet country setting. I’m sure they are waiting patiently to have it
finished up.
Just as we are about to leave, G & R suggest that we borrow 6 one gallon
jugs & 2 five gallon containers of theirs, fill them up with their good
water from their good well & take them back to our bus to add to our water
tank. We couldn’t pass up this random act of kindness, plus it will
increase our capacity when we make trips to the waterfall area for future
fill ups.
We thank G & R for their invitation & hospitality & head back to our bus
about 9:00pm.
We felt so good about having all this extra water, we immediately emptied
all the containers into our water tank & finished around 10:10pm.
My brother Don called during our absence….I returned the call just as he
was about to crawl into bed……so we didn’t talk too long…just a quick
update to each other.
High temp today=74 Lights out: 11:30pm
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