Awake: 5:43am Temp 41 sleep 5+53 sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & then join the KK meeting. After the meeting, we drive over to the Krumenacker Hardware store & buy a rake. To make sure this was the best tool for the job, I immediately use (40) min of raking time & make small piles of grass to gather up & dispose of later. This rake will be just fine for now.
Meanwhile, I begin searching for diesel fuel for Ken’s tractor; Google, local phone calls, etc. Our Best fuel stop in Barnesboro has been replaced with a Sheetz auto & truck stop but their diesel won’t be available until June 5th. Nearest diesel that I know of is in Ebensburg & that is a (30) mile round trip. For now, however, I give up & will ask the Rotary members if they know of anything closer.
Jean, our superb cook for Rotary, has decided to retire; today we are having our last supper, er dinner. She has been a wonderful cook & we will surely miss her & her good meals.
Lunch today: meat balls in tomato sauce over pasta, garlic toast, mixed salad & strawberry upside down cake for dessert. Most of our meeting was focused on the up & coming Golf Classic Tournament scheduled for next Friday. After the meeting, Joe gives me a (10) inch saw chain he wants stretched to a (12) inch; Donna gives me her husband’s chain saw for a chain sharpening & a new spark plug. En route to our motorhome, I stop @ Herk’s place & pass on the goods to be repaired.
The Rotary members present had no better solution for a closer diesel fuel station, so I decided to siphon some diesel fuel from our motorhome’s tank. Using a ½ inch plastic hose & our vacuum cleaner, it took only seconds for that fuel to start gushing from our motorhome tank into my (5) gallon container. (4) hrs later, the side & lower fields were looking more like a golf course should & I have had enough mowing for tonight.
While at the Rotary meeting, Kathy spent a couple hours continuing the raking I had started; there are now over 50 piles of grass.
During my (4) hrs of mowing time, Kathy was busy at the church hall gathering, bagging, labeling, weighing, & freezing the noodles she helped make yesterday; 54 lbs. After the noodle gathering, she & 3 other women, the self claimed, “Nicktown Crackers,” cracked & separated 43 dozen eggs to be used in next week’s noodle making.
1st a shower, then 9:00pm dinner: leftover meat balls in tomato sauce over pasta from the Rotary club.
DVR movie: “Houseboat.” We watch ½ tonight.
Lights out: 11:27pm
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