Awake: 5:30am Temp 53 sleep 5+30 fog….sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
K & I walk to 8:00am Mass & then attend the 8:30am Koffee Klub for an hr.
Back @ the motorhome, Katrina calls en route to pick up a friend & then they are going hiking somewhere in the Colorado hills.
After talking with Katrina, we drive to Indiana to visit the Foote family. Matthew & Andrew greet us with smiles & hugs. We haven’t seen them since the 10th of June but this time they remembered us.
I couldn’t help but notice a lot of the living room wall paper has been stripped off & some of the walls & woodwork painted as well as a new ceiling light fixture has been hung; Kevin & Melissa have been busy!
Down in the basement I see a new working clothes washer & a dryer ready to be electrified. Things are happening.
Our kids, upon hearing more about our recent work camp experience, are quickly getting signed up to be next; Melissa shows both Kathy & me the “to do” lists she made out for us so far. “You can do all or nothing” she says; to which we reply, “We’ll do what we can to help you guys out.”
Shortly after that discussion, a knock on the door gets Kevin’s attention: he has a buyer for their 1989 Camry & the lady wants him to drive the car to Blairsville (18 miles) where she will pickup wired monies from Wal-Mart & do the title transfer in downtown Blairsville. I volunteer to follow him in our Suzuki.
The whole operation took about (2.5 hrs), much longer than any of us anticipated, & the details are complicated; but Melissa & Kevin are quite comfortable with the transaction & the results.
Wanting to accomplish something on this visit, other than riding around in the car, I ask Kevin if he has time to install @ least (1) more storm window. Out comes the big ladder reaching to the 2nd floor to the….almost finished renovated bathroom. My job is to hold the storm window from the inside & feed Kevin the proper tools to secure the window with screws on the outside.
Of course, Matthew wanted to help or @ least watch his daddy from the upstairs open space bathroom. We couldn’t both be @ the window opening so I made (2) paper airplanes for Matthew to fly out the 2nd story window to keep him occupied. It worked; he must have made over a dozen trips up & down those stairs, then outside to find the plane before returning upstairs for another flight. He had fun & we did too.
In the meantime, Kathy tackles the first job on her list, “remove the wallpaper in the ‘moon’ room.”
Before leaving Indiana, we did some light shopping @ Martin’s & Wal-Mart.
8:30 dinner: leftover pork, brown rice, & mixed salad.
Late movie: “All the King’s Men” with Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, John Derek, Shepperd Strudwick, etc. Brilliant adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-wining novel about the rise & fall of a Huey Long-like senator, played by Crawford in the performance of his career. 1949. Add this one to the list; it’ll keep nearly everyone awake.
High temp=77 Lights out: 12:17am
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