Awake: 5:32am Temp 65 sleep 6+02 sunny overnight @ Watertown, WI.
@ 7:45am, I load (2) boxes of shelving intended for the renovated bathroom into the pickup truck; they are (2 in) too long. Larry is taking Doug to the Milwaukee airport for his flight to Florida today; then Larry will return the shelving, pick up the shorter shelving, & make a stop @ New Berlin to bring back the repaired Alkota water pressure unit that needed a new coil.
Before the temp rises too high, I clean our European motorhome mirrors & front windshield on the bus. I could have kept Larry company on his trip into Milwaukee today but elected to stay around the house because Dewey, (the son of Don & Cindy) who installs home entertainment systems in high end homes & luxurious yachts in the New York area, volunteered to visit our motorhome & check our cables & TV settings to make sure all is as it should be. Dewey spent over an hr doing the fine tuning & telling us stories about some of his customers. we really did appreciate his expertise.
Larry returns around lunch time; after lunch, Sallie reports to Larry that the Sub-Zero refrigerator is not making ice cubes & she needs those. Larry gets right on the job; gets a hair dryer from his daughter, Carrie, thaws out the ice cube mechanism, & cleans up the unit. Then he & I go over to the Jensch Auto Parts store to pick up the rebuilt starter for the Galion Crane that’s waiting for us to work on inside the factory.
@ the factory, Larry hitches up the small wheeled trailer, backs into the factory where we both reposition the portable crane. Using that crane, lift the Alkota unit up & out of the pickup truck, & place it onto the small wheel trailer. We make sure the starter is brought into the factory before we drive back to the house towing the Alkota pressure washer behind.
@ the house, we spend another hr trying to get the wind-up reel & hose attachments matched to the spray gun. We need a few more parts but that can wait until tomorrow. Now it’s wine time outside on the deck & Kathy joins us.
6:45 dinner by Sallie: Spaghetti with (2) different sauces and (2) different meat balls, beef & turkey; salad; garlic bread; & fruit and lemon pie for dessert
We talk until 8:15pm; everyone is tired, both physically & emotionally, due mainly to the freak accident of last evening.
All the visitors over the 4th of July holiday created mounds of garbage, so before we go inside our motorhome, K & I make (2) trips each, rolling the fully loaded, big garbage cans to the main road for pick up. On the 2nd trip I used the wheelbarrow to haul a wheel less garbage can & K rolled another large can.
Late evening: e-mail & AARP magazine reading & crossword puzzle working.
High temp=87 Lights out: 11:08pm
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