Awake: 5:15am Temp 50 sleep 6+04 sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I join the KK @ 8:30am. Hot topics: Donkey, Ass, Mule, Hinnies, etc. After our meeting, K & I attend the 9:30am Children’s Mass & then walk to the Krumenacker Hardware store. I buy (2) large water filters & Kathy buys a can of powdered cleaner (MAX) which states on the can to be used, among other things, to remove wallpaper paste. She wants to use it Saturday at the Footes to continue preparing a wall for painting.
After breakfast, I change the main water filter from our well; then we drive to Ebensburg, do some light grocery shopping @ the West End Market & then visit the “big dig” @ the Don & Josie excavation center. D & J’s basement of their (4) story home has been seeping moisture thru the walls.
During our short visit, we noticed that the semi-heavy equipment that the workers were using, already had much of the lawn dug out from the walls; walls pressure-washed clean & rubber coated (3) times. We also noticed a lot of gravel fill next to the walls & quite a few heavy duty PVC pipes strewed about that will be used as French Drains. What a mess their once pristine landscape is now; D & J tell us they will do their own landscaping this time.
From here, we do more grocery shopping @ Wal-Mart & then return to Nicktown.
Dinner: Store bought (Wal-Mart) crab cakes, cauliflower & a mixed salad. The first bite told the story of these fake cakes, I would definitely not recommend buying them. How could I possibly think these might be anywhere close to the quality & good taste as the ones Kathy makes!
We finish the DVR movie: “Sense & Sensibility” with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Harriet Walter, etc. Vivid, contemporary reading of Jane Austen’s novel about (2) newly impoverished sisters…one impulsive & flirtatious, the other repeatedly thwarted & forced to suppress her feelings of love. A spirited & moving look @ social mores & how disparate personalities dealt with them in early 19th-century England. 1995. Initially Kathy thought she would be bored with this 1800’s period story; ahaa, but later, she was practically on the edge of her cushion.
High temp=73 Lights out: 11:12pm
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