Awake: 6:13am Temp 61 sleep 5+44 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
K & I walk to 8:00am Mass this morning & then join the Koffee Klub for 1.3 hrs.
Later morning, Melissa calls; we talk about the cassette player & what could possibly be wrong with it. She tells me that nothing works. I let her know my intentions of looking @ it today.
Again, I invite Kathy out for lunch & thus, we both have a small breakfast.
@ 11:30am, we start driving to the Cambrian Hills Country Club where we have our weekly Rotary meetings @ noon time. Today, there was a lot of talk & planning relating to the annual Classic Golf Tournament held tomorrow. All the things yet to do by 10:00am tomorrow nearly wore me out just thinking about it. Fortunately, the good lunch of scalloped potatoes, cooked ham, fresh tomatoes with cheese, a bean & corn dish & a pineapple upside down cake with nuts for dessert, helped to rejuvenate my almost depleted energy.
We make (2) stops en route back to Nicktown: the State Liquor Store for wine & Giant Eagle for groceries.
While Kathy is @ the church hall helping to bag the noodles they made yesterday, I spend over an hr taking that cassette player apart & replacing a thin wire that had corroded off its solder post. I didn’t trust the idea of just re-soldering the wire back on because as I moved the fallen thin end wire, the other end easily fell off its solder post also & it too, was corroded. So I got rid of that ugly solder on both posts, applied some lovely solder paste, & affix some new, mighty good looking solder on both posts, found a piece of telephone wire suitable for the replacement & soldered both ends to their respective beautiful looking posts. With (4) double “A” batteries in the battery compartment & the play switch on; I could barely detect a small motor running inside. We have no cassette tapes to thoroughly check it out.
Perhaps I could have easily simplified that process a lot but what the heck, when Matthew is old enough to read these old memoirs, he’ll probably laugh @ how his ole “G” daddy made something simple sound so complicated.
Our Rotary lunch was our dinner, so we have fresh popcorn while watching the Script National Spelling Bee on TV. Heavy rain began @ 7:30 & continued off & on beyond our bed time. Satellite signals were also lost quite a few times during our viewing. During the spelling bee contest, Kathy makes some chocolate chip cookies to add to the other dessert items for the Rotary dinner tomorrow after the golf classic. Isn’t she the best!
High temp=81 Lights out: 11:37pm
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