Awake: 5:05am Temp 39 Cloudy Overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
Kathy’s apparently overcome her sluggishness of yesterday because: this
morning, she’s not only making a dinner meal for the Foote Family with a
share for us, but also a French toast & bacon breakfast for us to eat now.
It’s a sight to behold: cooking equipment all neatly balanced upon the
galley counter top, pots, pans, special devices, etc. This galley does
not have all usable counter space by any means; ….the Gaggenau cook stove
for example, when in use, the 2 burner area which has a cover, cannot be
used until the stove cools. Likewise, the sink also has a cover but not
useable for storing cooking equipment if one needs to run water for any
reason. So Kathy’s careful & coordinated maneuvering is a must during
these challenging times. Also, my careful & coordinated maneuvering when
passing her is a test of early morning skills.
When the meals are finished & breakfast eaten, we take the cooked meal
with us & visit the Footes, spend a little time with Matthew, gather up
the bed sheets from the upstairs bedrooms our kids used during the
holidays plus towels and other laundry & take all to a nearby launderette
where we stuff all into a triple loader washing machine.
While that’s happening, we slip away to Wal-Mart for a few more
groceries…then back to finish drying the laundry & back to the Foote house
for 2 more hrs of visiting + playing with Matthew.
Fuel prices suddenly jumped 10 cents for all service stations in
Indiana…..so we continue past Nicktown & fuel up in North, Northern
Cambria. Their fuel price also jumped up 10 cents to $2.39 per gallon so
it was a needless effort. Back to our bus @ 5:30pm.
7:05 dinner: Hot chicken salad, broccoli, spinach salad & toast.
Evening time: Computer time. Lights out: 11:22pm
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