Day 174

The day started out really well. As we were getting up the squirrels showed up. I managed to nail one with the pellet gun.

We got up at 7 to go to church, but got a late start. We got to the church 15 minutes early and the parking lot looked packed. It turned out that it wasn't, there were plenty of parking spaces in the back. The church was packed, but the usher found us a spacious place for three.

When church was over we figured every place to eat would be packed. We went to the IHOP next to Barton Creek. It's parking lot was almost full. We walked in and got seated immediately. The food and service were really good.

On the way home I stopped at the Post Office and there was an item waiting for me. I wasn't expecting one. We also stopped at Lowe's to see if they had Masonite. They did, so I took a sheet over to have it cut. At the saw there was a dumpster with three cut pieces of Masonite in it. They were much more than I needed. The helper said I could have them for free. So I saved $14.

When we got home I cut the pillars for the viaduct. Then I did a bunch of ebaying. I was disappointed. I was outbid on the thing I really wanted by someone who wanted it a lot more than I did. The same thing happened with another item. Oh well.

Finally I shoveled some gravel in the driveway to fill up a hole that had appeared. It was only two and a half loads, but that was enough. I'm not going to have fun if I order more.