Awake: 5:00am temp 38 sleep 6+27 sunny overnight @ Nicktown
Drive to our community center & exercise for 1.6 hrs before joining the
insecure coffee club members for 55 min.
After breakfast, with the temperature climbing, Kathy gives our (2) sewer
covers the 1st coat of green paint. While she’s doing this, I visit our
neighbor Al & tour his back yard which is like a mini fruit, berry &
vegetable plantation. His wife, Donna, who also has a green thumb, takes
care of the many flower beds around the premises. It’s all very nice. I
ask Al for ½ gallon of fuel to use for burning our limbs later. He
complies graciously so now I owe him a favor.
Back on our circular drive, I build a limb burning teepee using paper,
cardboard & some of those limbs Kathy had cut down. Then Al’s raw gasoline
was poured over the entire teepee & if the winds are ok, it’ll be lit
during the Foote visiting time.
@ 2:10pm Melissa & the boys arrive. She brought their electrical weed
whacker along for my use to further clean up our golf course. We spent
little time indoors as it was so nice outside & Matthew was looking
forward to watching his “G” Daddy operate that weed whacker.
After about 20 min of whacking those weeds, I was ready for a break &
Matthew began looking for his mother. We found Melissa, Andrew & Kathy
casually walking around the lower field admiring the nicely mowed “golf
course” and all the wild strawberries. We all agreed that the weather
seems reasonable for burning with the wind light & variable.
My water hose is connected & Melissa declares Matthew to be the Fire
Chief; then I toss a lighted match into that teepee & we have an instant
fire. 1.5 hrs later, those (3) piles of limbs are reduced to smoldering
ashes & the fire chief is called into action. With a little ground school
beforehand, Matthew did a marvelous job of spraying those cinders until
the smoke gave way to a miniature lake. The fire chief was very, very
patient waiting for the right signal to be given. He had to be bribed with
a special treat to get him into their car for their trip back to Indiana.
They leave @ 4:45pm.
K & I attend the 6:00pm Ascension Thursday vigil Mass.
7:30 dinner: Meatloaf, broccoli, rice, spinach salad, & toast.
Late evening movie: “Bite the Bullet” with Gene Hackman, James Coburn,
Candice Bergen, etc. A 600 mile horse race is the subject of this
magnificent adventure, an epic in every sense of the word. A real sleeper.
1975
High temp=72 Lights out: 10:36pm
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