Day 58

So I got semi-ambitious today. 

The first task was to figure out what had gone wrong with the rear channel amplifier.  Yesterday evening it had go into protect mode.  I unplugged the power strip it was connected to, but that didn't do any good.  It was bed time, so I left it for this morning.  I pulled the amp out of the rack and looked at the back.  I didn't see anything wrong, so I pulled the power cord out.  When I plugged it back in, it worked.  I like easy fixes.

I took the barrel out and started it soaking in Kroil.  I'll leave it there for 5 days.  Then I decided to put out those solar lights that we have so many of.  I put three by the end of the sidewalk.  I put two fireflies by the flamingos in the back.  I put the flamingo in the middle of the sawed off trees in the back.  Finally I put two color change spheres by the windmills in the back.

When it got dark, one of the fireflies and one of the color change spheres didn't work.  The sphere didn't have a block in the battery, so it might be dead.  That would piss me off, it was expensive.

Lucy went out just before dark when the new lights were on.  She was barking at one of them, I'm not sure which.

After I finished the lights I decided to try the new abrasive wheel on the last of the driveway posts.  It worked really well.  It worked so well that after I was finished with the post I started on the light pole.  I went up as far as I could comfortably reach.  By that time I was tired and I'd worn out the wheel.

Of course I painted everything then.  It took a whole can of paint to do the pole and post.  It will actually take more, since I need to put on a second coat.  I'll need to buy at least two more cans of paint and another wheel.

Doing the rest of the light pole is going to be a pain.  I'll have to have Ellen help by holding the ladder when I try to do the top of the pole.

By the time I was finished with all of that I felt I'd done all that I needed to today.  So I went into the house and watched movies and surfed for the rest of the day.  I didn't seem worthwhile to go anywhere.

Day 57

Welcome to Black Friday.  I celebrated it by painting another of the driveway posts.  I have one more to go and then the light pole.  Grinding those things is such a pain in the ass that I only want to do one per day.

After painting the pole I took the dog to Circle C.  My toe is feeling a lot better so we walked over to the creek and I let her swim.  Of course several people showed up and watched her.  There was one beagle that I tried to get to swim, but I think the water was too cold.  By the time we got back my toe was giving me twinges.  I think that was right on the edge of overdoing it.

I went to lunch at Fireman's.  When i was finished I took the dog to the pet store so she could get a treat.  She earned it as she worked really hard when we were at Circle C.

After the pet store I stopped at Costco to see if they had any more cider.  They didn't.  It was surprising.  There weren't any more people there than on a normal weekday.  They weather was nice, so I walked over to Whole Paycheck.  I bought a loaf of bread (it was on sale) and a yuppie frozen dinner (Pad Thai).  Then it was home.

I watched football in the afternoon.  WSU lost of course.  The rest of the time was reading and surfing.

Day 56

So today is Thanksgiving.  Lucy, the cats, and I spent a quiet day.  They slept.  I read the Black Friday ads, surfed, and watched movies and football.  The cats didn't eat their breakfast, so they didn't get anything special.  Lucy got a couple of extra treats during the day.  I had soup for lunch and a turkey frozen dinner for dinner.

It's getting warmer.  It was up to about 65 in the afternoon.  It's down to 37 at 10 pm.  My foot feels a little better.  I might try to walk with Lucy tomorrow.

Day 55

I spent the morning cleaning the house.  I vacuumed the whole place, including the floor boards.  After that I felt I'd done all the work that was necessary for the day.  So I just surfed until after lunch.  I found a website that had every black Friday ad known to man.  So I went through a whole lot of them.  I didn't really find anything that I thought was worth fighting the crowds for.

In the early afternoon i went to pick up the mail.  Then I took the dog to Circle C.  She pissed me off.  She only did two half hearted retrieves before she refused to bring the bumper back.  I put her back in the car and we went home.

I would have liked to go for a walk because it was in the 50's.  The problem is that I cut my toe a few day ago when cutting a toe nail.  It hurts to walk, or even wear a shoe.

When I got home I finished some work in the garage.  Then I just watched movies and surfed the rest of the afternoon and evening.

Day 54

We got up at 6:10 today to get Ellen to the airport.  I was leaving the airport at 7:05.  That's not bad timing.  Of course if we had left half an hour later we might not have made it.  There wasn't any traffic at the airport.  I guess their aren't too many flights that early.

I stopped at a donut shop on the way home for breakfast.  Lucy got part of one.  Then I went home to do a little stuff.  It took three trips to take the garbage and recycling to the cans.  Then I took the two big boxes to the far building.  There were at least 5 deer in the yard.  One was the four point buck and another was a spike.

Then I tried to work in the garage.  It was too cold.  So I swept the front walk and left it at that.

After lunch I left to pick up the mail and stop at Academy.  The I went to lunch at MickeyD's.  I stopped at Ruby Tuesday's and got Lucy a new toy.  It has three squeakers in it, so it should take her some time to tear up. 

On the way home I stopped at Circle C so Lucy could do some retrieves.  She didn't really want to do any, she wanted to go swimming instead.  After three or four lousy retrieves I told her to get in the car.  She didn't want to go, so I threw it again.  Apparently she figured out that she wasn't going swimming, so she started retrieving. 

By the time we went home the temp was 53.  It should be nice tomorrow.

Day 53

After three days in the house it was time to go do some errands.  We went to the post office, pet store, Costco, and HEB.  Costco and HEB were packed.  I'm not used to that during the week.  By the time we were finished I was glad to get home.

That's all we did, but it took several hours.  When we got home I found out that DirecTV is giving us HBO for the next five days.  So I went through and set up recording a whole bunch of movies.  Then I watched a couple before the football game.

Ellen is leaving for her sister's tomorrow.  I can't say I'm thrilled.

Day 52

So little happened that I forgot to do and entry.  It's cold (below 40), windy and raining.  The most strenuous thing I did today was go get the paper.  The rest of the day was spent reading, surfing, and watching football.

The dog is going crazy.  She really wants to do something, but she doesn't want to go out in the cold and rain.

Day 51

We had resigned ourselves to waiting all day for the Traeger to show up.  So It was surfing and reading until it showed up around 1.  It came in two boxes, weighing a total of 140 lbs.

It took awhile to get everything out of the boxes.  I had to cut one of the boxes apart to get the stuff out.  Then it was just a case of putting it all together.  There were a couple of pain in the ass steps, but nothing really bad.  Fletcher managed to disappear one of the rubber feet for a leg.  That pissed me off.

The instructions call for quite an involved burn in process.  I think we should wait until it's warmer to do it.

It was 4 before I was done.  I decided to reward myself with some eggnog.  That put me to sleep, and when I woke up it was dinner time.  Now it's football.

Day 50

Today's weather really sucked.  I don't think it got above 40 all day.  It was windy all day and at times it rained really hard.  I just didn't feel like going estate sailing.  This week's sales weren't that attractive anyway.

So we decided to act like all good Texans and stay home because of the weather.  I read and surfed.  Ellen sewed and surfed.

I did get a couple of things accomplished.  I finally got around to putting away all of the clothes that we had brought down.  As part of that I packed away some other clothes and set aside some for Goodwill.  I also cleaned the barrel I got yesterday and put it away.

It was really too cold to work in the garage.  Hey, I wonder if the cold weather will kill off the mosquitoes?

One thing I should mention.  The board meeting was still going on when I wrote up yesterday's entry.  After it was over Ellen told me that Ted isn't going to run for reelection.  That's half the battle.

Day 49

I woke up this morning with big intentions to get something accomplished.  I ended up doing not so much.  In the morning I decided to fill out the wish list that Hooch wanted.  I had been putting it off.  However, today I got in to surfing for items and spent hours on it.

After a late lunch we went over to pick up the mail.  The packages I was waiting for were there.  Then we went to Circle C to run the dog.  She had been trying to get us to go somewhere all day.  We went the other way around the park.  The path on that side is heavily damaged.  You could see that in places it was at least 4 feet underwater.

When we got to the creek it was still dammed up.  I wonder when they are going to clear out the culverts.  Lucy had a good time swimming.  It was almost 80, so she was hot and thirsty by the time we got there.

I could have done some stuff when we got back, but I didn't feel like it.  So I didn't.  Instead I surfed and watched TV.  Maybe there's a pattern here.

Day 48

We went to Barton Creek Mall today.  We spent most of the day there walking around and looking at stuff.  The place was dead, very few people.  That was good for shopping, but bad for the economy.

We picked up some Christmas presents for John and Patty and Ellen's sister.  We also brought a small Traeger from a kiosk.  It was more expensive than Cabela's, but it came with a lot of extras.  They said we should get it within about a week.

There isn't a lot more to say.  I mean shopping isn't something that's really exciting.

We got home about 5:00.  So except for taking the dog to the mailbox nothing else happened.

Day 47

I decided to do a few small things today.  I finished painting the second post and put up the railroad sign.  I put it next to the apartment door because that way I can see it every time I leave the house.

I also resized all of the brass.

A guy came by to give us an estimate on a new AC.  He's also going to quote a heat pump.  We should get a quote tomorrow.  He seems very knowledgeable and straightforward.  If the quote's reasonable I probably won't bother with anyone else.

"We went off to get the mail just because I wanted something to do.  On the way back we stopped at Best Buy and got the Avengers.  We also got some stuff at Steck's.  The final stop was the pet store by Fireman's Subs.  They didn't have the pad stuff we were looking for, but Lucy got a treat.

When we got home I finished with the brass and then just surfed.  In the evening we watched the Avengers.  It's a good movie, much better than that Thor movie we saw awhile back.

Day 46

The morning was spent surfing and reading the paper.  That may not be interesting, but it is relaxing.

A little before noon I decided I should get something accomplished.  So I went out to the garage and started up the brass cleaner.  After that was started I went out and ground the rust off another driveway post.  I wore ear protectors, which made the job somewhat nicer.  Then I taped it and painted it.  The new paint works much better than the old stuff.

After that I went in for a late lunch.  I called someone about replacing the AC.  Ellen said we needed to got to the post office, so we did.  She mailed some letters and a package of Christmas presents.  On the way home we stopped for some groceries and to run the dog.  She had been getting really antsy and did a good job running.

When we got home I emptied the cleaner.  The mosquitoes were out and ate me alive.

Day 45

We got up late today and spent the morning reading the Sunday paper and watching football.  The new housing development at the curve on 45 was hosting an open house.  They had food and music.  I had cabin fever so we went.

It was actually very nice.  The model house was cool, and we were able to go through it without being hassled by salesmen.  We took Lucy and one of the realtors took care of her while we were in the house.  When we got out the realtor was all gushing about how well behaved Lucy was.  I guess she hadn't had much experience with well trained dogs.

We had a nice lunch - hotdog, pulled pork, kettle chips, lemonade and ice cream.  It was all really good.  The only downside was that it was hot - 90 degrees.  I really didn't feel like doing anything in the heat, so we just went home to watch more football.

All in all I think it was a pretty good Sunday.

Day 44

Today we went to New Braunfels for the train show.  I had a good time, Ellen was bored.  It was hot, so we didn't take the dog.  There wasn't a whole lot of n-scale stuff.  Some people had pretty good prices and others were smoking dope.  I only bought one car and a couple of tools.

There was a really cool Lego setup.  They even had a Shay.  One guy had built a really accurate WhataBurger.

After that we stopped at a fish place we liked and had lunch.  The food there is really good, just like we remembered.

I gassed up in New Braunfels.  I got 38 mpg driving 30 miles back up to Buda.  I didn't go less than 70 the whole way.  Some times I was near 80.  I'd thought that the new car got less gass mileage than the old, but that's not true - at least for highway.

We stopped in at Cabela's.  We looked at a lot of stuff, but all I bought was a couple of boxes of bullets for reloading.

After we got home I took the dog up to the mailbox.  She deserved it after being locked up all day.

Day 43

I went estate sailing today while Ellen went with a neighbor woman to the F1 thing downtown.

I only stopped at two places.  They were both busts.  Everything was old and in a lot of cases overpriced.  There were two other sales, but they were at Far West and Steck and I didn't feel like driving that far.

I did stop at Harbor Freight and got some wheels for stripping the paint off the poles.  I also stopped at Home Depot and got some spray paint for the poles and some sealant.  I'll use the sealant to keep the ants out of the bathroom.  The paint is both a primer and paint together so maybe it will work better than the stuff we used yesterday.  It's also a lot cheaper.

I had lunch at Golden Corral.  I'm old enough to get a discount there now.

The last stop was Circle C.  I walked over to the creek so Lucy could swim.  She did a whole lot of work.  I'm not sure she was tired out when we got back to the car.

When I got home I got out the blower and blew the leaves off of the deck.  They were really deep in the corner.  It was really wet under them, which wasn't doing the deck any good at all.  The blower is another thing that Lucy doesn't like at all.

After that I read the paper out on the deck.  It was a really nice, 80 degree afternoon with almost no wind.

Ellen brought home some Baklava from the F1 thing.  It was really good.  Good enough to qualify as the real thing.  It was from a roach coach.

Day 42

I finally faced up to it and fixed the trim on the trailer that Ellen had ripped up.  It was a pain in the ass to remove the two screws, just like I thought it would be.  I did get them out and the result isn't perfect, but it does look a lot better.

After that I decided to try repainting one of the posts in the driveway.  The thing I bought for the drill would work, but it would have taken a lot of battery recharges.  I noticed that I had acquired an angle grinder at some point.  It worked really well.  Unfortunately the paint acts like it really need a primer.  I'll have to get some before doing the next post.

We needed to go to the grocery store.  So we went there and the post office.  First we took the dog to Circle C and threw the bumper.  She had a whole lot of energy.

When we got home I sat down to watch TV.  The chair put me to sleep instead.

Just before dinner Ellen called me into the bathroom.  There were a bunch of really small ants crawling up the frame of her closet door.  I think their what people call crazy ants.  We mopped them all up.  They appeared to be coming from the molding at the bottom of the door.  So I sealed it with super glue.  Tomorrow I'll get something better and do a better job.  What I did seems to be working.

I can see why people call them crazy ants.  They run around like crazy when the perceive a threat.  Also there's a million of them and they are very small.  They could drive you crazy.  We seem to have lucked out and found them just as they were starting to get into the house.  I hope we can keep them at bay.

Day 41

We finished the unpacking today.  There were still 4 boxes of stuff by the printer.  I opened them all up and put them away.  There were some Christmas presents also.  So I got some paper from the apartment and Ellen wrapped them up.  We even put them in shipping boxes.

After that I was feeling ambitious so I signed up for Good Sam's roadside assistance.  It's better for us with a trailer than AAA.  They referred us to their insurance company.  It's got better coverage than State Farm and costs half as much.  So we signed up for it to start when the current insurance ends.

That pretty much finished what got accomplished today.  I read and watched TV for the rest of the day.  I did get a chance to talk to Beaver and his wife a little bit when I went out to get the garbage cans.

Day 40

We got up late (10) today because we stayed up to watch a late movie.  I don't think we got to sleep until after 1.

When we got up all I did was some surfing.  At 12 we went over to Alamo Drafthouse and watched Thor.  It had amazing special effects, but the plot and acting weren't anything to write home about.  I was disappointed that Loki didn't get the shit beat out of him.

After the movie we went over to the post office and then checked autozone for Kroil.  They didn't have any, so I gave up the search.  When we got home I just ordered some on the web.  It's supposed to be shipped on Thursday or Friday.

I probably should have done something when we got home, but I didn't.  I just surfed.  I'll do something tomorrow.  At least the washing got done.

Day 39

I didn't really feel like doing anything useful today.  So I got up and surfed the web.  I did start the paper again.  That's about all I accomplished today.

We went back over to Costco and got Ellen some allergy medicine.  Then we went over to Home
Depot so that I could get an abrasive wheel to remove the rust on the light pole.  I looked for Kroil at an auto parts store, but they didn't have any.

It's a gopher come day, so we couldn't go to the bank or the post office.

On the way home we took the dog to Circle C to swim.  It was a lot different than yesterday.  She did retrieves all the way there and back.  She also did a whole bunch of water retrieves.  A couple of other people came by with dogs and they (the dogs) swam, too.  One rug rat also waded in up to his waist to play with the dogs.

Lucy earned a treat, so we stopped at Tomlinson's and bought her one.  She got a Zuky in the evening also.

At 7:00 we went to the home owner's meeting.  There were at least 20 people there.  They had a presentation about native plantings.  The current officers tried to get someone else to join the board.  It was a fun meeting.  It ended early enough that I got to watch the second half of the football game.

Day 38

We really slept in today, until after 10.  When we did get up all we did was eat breakfast and surf for awhile.  Then I decided to go out and finish the drawer.  I thought it might take some work, but it was really pretty simple.  The drawer guides are designed to fit flush with the front and bottom of the drawer.  So you don't even need to measure.  Your thumb is all you need to fit them.

I put the drawer into the trailer and it fits and functions perfectly.  Not bad for having never done that sort of thing before.  I wonder what we'll put in it.

Then I got a wild desire to go to Costco.  So we did.  The place was mobbed.  There weren't any parking spaces and people were parking in the aisles and sidewalks.  Some of this might have been due to the "vegetarian chilli cookoff" they were having in the green area.  Only in Austin.

They might have been having some sort of doggy thing also.  Unfortunately we didn't notice it until after we went to Costco.  We had some frozen stuff, so we couldn't stop.

We did stop on the way home so Lucy could do some retrieves.  She only did three grudging retrieves.  She really wanted to walk over to go swimming, but we couldn't do that.  So we went home without buying her a treat at Tomlinson's like I had planned to.

When we got home I just watched football for most of the rest of the day.  I did call Denny like he requested.  Apparently Suzanne is acting her IQ.  I think that the club will have to take some drastic action if they want to get rid of her.

Day 37

I was going to install the drawer today.  When I got up this morning I just didn't feel like it.  I was saved when the club called up and said the delivery was here.  So we took the truck up there to pick it up.

When we got up there we loaded the truck and Lucy did some retrieves.  Then we left in search of the elusive BBQ.

We drove half way across Austin to a place that sold a competitor to Traeger.  It was $900.  That's a grand with tax, which is more than I want to spend on a BBQ.  So we continued the rest of the way across Austin and all the way to 620 to the second place.  They had a small Traeger for $450.  That's $500 with tax.  That seems a lot for the same thing that we saw at Academy for $150.  I think it's time to check the internet.  The tax should easily cover shipping.

On the way home we stopped at the Bee Cave HEB for some groceries.  All in all it was an 80 mile trip.

When we got back I unloaded the truck.  After that I was too tired to do anything else.  So it's TV and surfing for the rest of the night.

Day 36

We went on a truncated estate sale trip today.  I wanted to go all the way to Buda, but Ellen had a doctor appointment.  We did go to two places.  The first was interesting.  The husband was sort of a sportsman.  I actually got a pound of Universal Clays.  The prices were very reasonable. 

The second place was a bust.  The stuff wasn't high quality and the prices were way out of line.  I was surprised that a professional service would set prices like that.  A lot of them were very near retail.  Some were above it.

After the second place we ate a quick lunch at A&W, stopped at the post office, and then went home.  Ellen immediately left for the doctor.

I went out and finished assembling the drawer.  I had to cut out the bottom piece.  That new jigsaw sure works good.

That only took a few minutes, so I decided to cut the grass.  The weather was pretty good - mid 60's.  The grass was dry and the ground was fairly dry.  It took a couple of hours to do, but I'm sure glad it's done.

I was finished by a little after 3:00.  The rest of the day was watching movies and surfing.

Day 35

I got up a little late this morning and went out to assemble another piece on the drawer.  The first two pieces seemed to glue together well.  I also measured out the size of the bottom piece, but I didn't cut it out because I wanted to wait until the next piece dries.

That only took a little amount of time, so I decided to hang up the thermometer that Ellen painted just before we left last spring.  That only took a few minute also.

The morning was pretty cool, so I decided to finish up the edging.  It seemed dry enough and I was getting sick of seeing the edger and cord on the back porch.  It took awhile but I got it all done.  Now all that needs to be done is mow it.  It was getting warm, so I decided to put that off.

I went inside for a late lunch.  There wasn't anything on the tube, so I looked at what was recorded.  The disk is over 2/3 full.  So I watched a couple of movies and a comedy special.  That freed up 4 or 5 % of the disk.

While I was doing the edging and watching TV Ellen went to the women's lunch.  Apparently she had fun and came back with some gossip.  Dola is talking about leaving again.  A nearby neighbor pulled a gun on her and her husband.  Details were sketchy.

Tonight is football.  Tomorrow is estate sales.

Day 34

We left in the morning to go to Harbor Freight to get some clamps to finish the drawer.  I lucked out - they were on sale.  Ellen went to the sewing shop next door and bought a small sewing machine for the trailer.

We went across the street and had lunch at the Chinese restaurant.  It was really crowded because we wne at about 11:50.  The food was good though, and service was fast.

On the way home we stopped at the yuppie grocery store so that Ellen could get some stuff to take to the women's thing tomorrow.  We also stopped at the post office.

When I got home I used the clamps to glue the first two pieces of the drawer together.  We'll see how it went tomorrow.

The rest of the day was surfing and TV (there's a pattern there).

Day 33

Of course it was washing day.  That's a lot easier when using the washer and dryer doesn't require driving somewhere.  It was also the first "put out the garbage can day" since we got back.

It was also voting day.  At least we didn't have to drive to San Marcos.  The voting place was in Belterra.  Unfortunately we didn't get to vote against that Democrat POS that's running for governor.  Apparently that isn't until next year.

When we got back I decided to build the drawer for the trailer.  It took awhile to set up the miter saw.   I actually had to RTFM.  It worked great though.  I even had the right router bit.  I got all the pieces fabricated, but I couldn't assemble them because I didn't have big enough clamps.  Off to Harbor freight tomorrow.

While I was in the garage the mosquitoes were eating me alive.  That's a bad side to the rain.

I spent the afternoon and evening watching TV and surfing.  I think I've been doing entirely too much work since we got back.

Day 32

It was raining in the morning, so no mowing.  Instead we went to Red's.  It was fun.  They had a Solo there.  It's really nice, but I have a little problem with the price.  We'll see.

After that we drove up to Round Rock to see Gander Mountain.  It looks like it's in an old Sportsman's Warehouse building.  They had a nice selection of stuff, but it was all at list price or higher.  There were absolutely no bargains at all.

After that we went to a Chinese place for lunch.  They were having a lunch buffet.  It was pretty good as long as you like hot food.  Every dish was spicy.

On the way back we stopped at Half Price Books and Fry's.  They didn't really have much that we were interested in.  We wanted a copy of the Avengers, but they didn't have one.  On the way back we stopped at Target, Best Buy, and Wally World.  None of them had it.

When we got home we watched the latest Star Trek that we had bought at Fry's.  It was OK, but very predictable.  Also it was nothing but a rehash of ideas from previous ones like the Wrath of Khan.

Day 31

I finished up most of the work on the trailer.  I put up the partition in the cupboard and put the shelf in the closet.  The shelf gives a surprising amount of storage.  I used the new saw, it worked much better than the last one.  I also used this new magnetic screw holder on the hammer drill.  It made things a lot easier.

I also put the new hinges on the bed.  The old ones were light and starting to rip out.

The only things left to do on the trailer is to fix the trim Ellen ripped off and make the drawer.  I need to mow first if it doesn't rain tonight.

After that we went to HEB.  It was time to get some stuff.  The place was packed.  We almost couldn't find a place in the parking lot.

When we got home I decided to just watch football.  Unfortunately the Cowboys won.

Day 30

I decided it wasn't dry enough yet to mow, so I went out and worked on the trailer shelf some more.  I got it done.  It looks nice and I think it will make that cupboard a lot better to use.  Unfortunately I couldn't put up a partition or finish the closet shelf because I didn't have the material.

So we went out.  We got the mail and then went to Home Depot to get the shelf.  I decided to buy the material for the drawer also.  I also wanted to buy a fan for the garage, but they didn't have one.  So we stopped at Lowe's also.  They had a fan, as well as a couple of "stocking stuffer" tools that I picked up.  They also had a Dewalt jig saw on sale.  So I bought it.  I also got 120 lbs of water softener salt.

We brought Lucy with us because she could go into the stores.  On the way back we stopped at the park.  We wanted to see the creek.  It was high enough to flow over the sidewalk.  So Lucy got a chance to swim.  All in all she swam and did retrieves all the time we were walking.  She was a tired doggy when we got home.

It was 4 when we got home.  I just unloaded the car and put the fan together.  It's amazing that they can acquire the materials, build it in China, ship it to Austin, sell it for $18 and still make a profit. 

Day 29

When we got up, we had to open the gate for the water softener guy.  When we walked up there it was nice and cool.  I decided that it was a good opportunity to fill in the rut the water had dug in the driveway.  It took about 6 loads of gravel.  I was tired by the time I was done, but it looks good now.

The water softener guy was supposed to come here in the late morning.  So I went out to the garage to work on the shelving.  I anchored the metal shelf that we already had.  Then I cut the end piece for the upper shelf.  That's as far as I got because the guy had come early and finished up without too much trouble.

I decided I'd worked enough this week, so we went estate sailing.  Two of the places were really close to home - Belterra and Slaughter.  I picked up a few tools and a VCR so we could view some tapes I found when we were packing up the big trailer. 

The third place was on Barton Skyline.  When we were finished there we went over to Rudy's for a late lunch.  Lucy really liked it because she got some, too.

Then it was a quick stop at the grocery store and then home.  I decided to relax instead of working, so I did some reading and napping.