Awake: 6:36am Temp 57 sleep 6+14 high thin clouds, then sunny overnight @ Vegas.
My Brother Don calls en route to visit a client near Pittsburgh, PA. We discuss Josie & how emotionally challenging it is for her to clean out things from her mother’s house; & how Don is slowing down after being active for (4) yrs in transferring his accounting business to the new owner; plus talk of 1st Cousin Cyril who has purchased property in Indiana, PA in prep for future home building; & discussion of our own progress on home building in answer to my brother’s questions; etc. It was a very informative call.
After that call, I was encouraged to give Cousin Cyril a ring in Maryland & talk about the property he purchased & timetable for selling his present house, etc. With the present downturn of the housing industry, Cy says he is not rushing into anything. He is however, getting their present home cleaned up & looking good in the event a lucky customer has to have their house on quick notice.
Next, I venture outside & finally run a water hose thru the lower basement area passenger side to the dump station on the driver’s side; now when dumping the black water tank, I can simply backwash the (160) gallon tank by turning on a faucet & flush the tank clean.
Jeff calls from Anchorage; we talk about our tax return.
Katrina calls while driving home from school in Denver; she says her Honda stalled when starting from a green light & now something smells like burning rubber. I asked her to check her engine temperature gauge; she reported it’s midway but when she stops @ a red light, it climbs ¼ higher. I suggest that when she returns to her condo, she should let the Honda cool for awhile & then open the hood to check for anything unusual relating to belt driven accessories; than call us when she can.
Over an hr later, Katrina gives the report; she doesn’t see anything out of order under the hood. “Keep monitoring your gages” I tell her.
Kathy calls for Melissa in PA but she’s sleeping; she talks with Kevin briefly.
Ray & I use Skype mid evening but signals are poor.
Dinner: leftover pork, fresh asparagus, fresh brown rice & a mixed salad.
DVR movie: “Idiot’s Delight” with Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, etc. Disparate characters….including a tacky vaudevillian & his one-time flame, who has come up in the world…are forced to share each other’s company in a hotel near the Italian border as WWII is about to erupt. 1939. Entertaining, but it wasn’t up to our high standards! In fact, you could miss this one!
High temp=76 Lights out: 11:15pm
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