Awake: 6:25am Temp 65 sleep 6+34 fog….hazy overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
We drive to 8:00 am Mass, after which we talk with Tom B. & his wife who are celebrating their 51st wedding anniversary. From church, we stop for a short visit with the Koffee Klub members & then it’s a work camp day @ the Foote house for us starting @ 10:00am.
Kathy starts her time by reading a book to Andrew & playing with him for 30 min; then she spends about 2.5 hrs transplanting strawberry plants from around the patio to the designated strawberry patch further back in the yard.
Meanwhile, Kevin had taken out the basement window toward the back yard & in doing so, loosened up a concrete block, so this will be our immediate project for now. While he makes a trip to town for supplies, I clean rough concrete off both blocks using a sledge hammer & chisel so we can reset the one & have both level for a plank & a new window.
We used only 15 lbs of pre-mixed concrete for the job. Now Kevin has to wait a day or so for the cement to cure in order to finish the project.
Melissa has been busy making dinner while we were involved in our “work” activities. She invites us to eat with them @ 1:15: baked chicken & potatoes, carrots, & corn + fresh peach cobbler for dessert. Quite good.
After dinner I help Kevin install another storm window in the almost finished bathroom on the 2nd floor. That was our work camp day! We leave @ 3:45pm, Kathy driving the Suzuki while I drive our former 1984 Ford Van; I volunteered to do some repair work on the van in our driveway in Nicktown in my spare time.
Back @ the bus, we both shower & then walk to church & attend 6:00pm vigil Mass.
Since we already had a dinner meal, Kathy makes us both a mixed salad with Triscuits; later we have popcorn while watching the movie: “Command Decisions” with Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford, etc. Taut & engrossing story with Gable, a flight commander, who knows that, to win the war, he must send his men on suicide missions over Germany. Intriguing book @ behind the-scenes politics of the U.S. war effort. 1948. This story was a similar version of the evening movie on Wednesday: “The Dawn Patrol.”
High temp=78 Lights out: 12:15am
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