Awake: 7:23am Temp 73 sleep 7+19 sunny, then cloudy overnight @ Watertown, WI.
We both didn’t sleep well. Our motorhome is pretty well insulated to outside sounds & activities but, @ 2:15am, I was awakened by a continuous barking of dogs; at first it fit into my dreams; then I realized it was for real. I turned our yard lights on, which are quite bright & saw nothing unusual @ first; then looking closely, I saw them. (2) of them; just standing there barking & barking. It was Tigger & Massel inside the house barking & looking @ me. I turned off the yard lights, went back to my couch, wrapped my pillow around my ears & finally fell asleep….again. Would you believe, when I looked out our window @ 7:24am, those dogs were still in that same window, not barking but still looking @ our coach. A short while later I dressed, went outside & let the dogs outside to run around a bit & then I give them some loving & attention when they get settled down.
Today Kathy paints primer on the base of both of the metal statues & then on the metal of the old school desk. Then she waters the flowers & rakes all the cut, dead shrub limbs from the bushes & hauls them away in a wheelbarrow, dumping them over the bank; (3) loads to be exact.
Early afternoon, Sallie & Larry’s older daughter, Carrie, & her daughter, Molly, drive up from Milwaukee. We were expecting them; we talk a little then we get back to our chores.
Meanwhile, using the Bob Cat mower with sharp blades, I mow the entire yard, up & down both sides of the main driveway utilized by (3) homes & a section between the pasture & the pine trees. Then, using the powered wire brush, I clean off (8) mower blades, sharpen, & then, balance them. I also use the telescoping limb cutter to trim off a few lower branches close to where Ken & Chris have their high roof carpenter truck parked; the lower branches have been bugging them when moving some sheetrock & lumber out of their truck.
I encourage Kathy, in her spare time, to make a return trip to that Gym & look for muscle men again. When she returns, she thinks maybe she got lucky. Todd fell for her story & agreed to call us by 11:00am tomorrow morning.
Late afternoon, Carrie invites us to have dinner with her & Molly. We give it some thought & then accept her generous offer; but we do shower before joining them.
Dinner by Carrie: spaghetti in a tomato sauce with soy meat crumbles, mixed salad & bread; Carrie is vegetarian. Molly is very, very cute, speaks well & makes good conversation for her age (2 ½ yr). We thank Carrie very much & she tells us she will take care of the dogs; especially Massel, he’s her dog.
We sleep on separate couches again tonight.
High temp=83 Lights out: 11:24pm
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