Awake: 5:27am Temp 43 sleep 6+05 sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & then join the KK meeting; hot topic: car transmissions. Kathy leaves early for noodle making.
Our forwarded Alaska mail arrives today; I sort out the important stuff while having breakfast & then @ 11:40, slip into dirty clothes & continue sanding metal panels on the church hall until 3:00pm. A (20) min break for a lunch of homemade chicken noodle soup with the noodle makers was my only real break.
Minutes after my shower, Ken P. shows up with his John Deere tractor; @ the same time, Florentz & Anna pull in for a visit. Also, earlier @ our KK meeting, I invited a few guys to join me in having a beer @ the Nicktown Hotel; it has just reopened after (2) weeks of being closed after the death of its owner, Priscilla.
So I apologized to F & A & agreed to a later rendezvous; talked briefly with Ken about his young grandson & tractor & then K & I walked to the hotel & joined John, John’s son, Josh & son-in-law Gino. Although I’m not much of a beer drinker, the Yengling tasted pretty good; of course, the company was even better.
Before dinner, I use (2) hrs mowing time on the (2) ft high grass inside our circular drive.
Dinner: chicken noodle soup with oyster crackers.
Evening Skype time with Nick, Eriko & Jerry; we use our (2) landline phones to catch every word spoken. Jerry demos his “T” ball skills & Nick reveals his invitation to join the Isilon group traveling to Japan & Korea this summer.
We finish DVR movie: “Penny Serenade” with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, etc. Quintessential soap opera, with Dunne & Grant as couple who adopt baby after their unborn baby dies. A wonderful tearjerker. 1941. No doubt about it; tearjerker supreme but well worth experiencing such a story.
Lights out: 11:50pm
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