We got up with the alarm, but stayed in bed surfing. After breakfast we did a little more surfing. I did some more clean out of the guest room closet. I took some gun cases and a big suitcase to the apartment attic. There's a mystery there. We have a Caesar Gureini case that neither of us recognize. It doesn't match any of our guns.
Cabela's was having a sale, so we went there about mid-morning. The dog had to stay at home because it was hot. I wanted to get a small safe for the guest room closet.
When we got there of course we had to look at everything. We struck up a conversation with one of the guys at the gun counter when he asked about my Briley hat. We talked for quite awhile. Just as we finished Ellen wanted to look at pretty guns. They had a blue Kimber 9mm, the one I've wanted to buy her for a long time. She said she wanted it, so we bought it.
After that she went to look for clothes and I went to buy the safe. By the time I'd paid for it it, it was raining - hard. So we spent about an hour in the restaurant until it stopped raining.
When I went back to the loading dock to pick up the safe, the warehouse guy had it waiting for me. We looked it over and it had a paint blemish on the front. The guy called a manager to see if I could get a discount. I had to track down the manager. I got lucky, it was standing right outside the warehouse door. He agreed to a discount - about 10%. We talked while the discount was being processed. The manager said that shoplifting was a huge problem. People try to stick rifles down their pants. They have devices that disable the anti-theft devices.
We went back to the loading dock and the manger helped box the safe up. That's when I remembered that the warehouse guy had said to check the combination. So we unboxed it.
It turns out that was a good thing. The combination didn't work. The manager tried it, I tried it, and the warehouse guy tried it. So they got me another, unblemished, safe. The manager said that the Liberty safe guy was coming tomorrow because they'd had so much trouble with the safes.
After that they helped load it onto the truck. The drive home was uneventful - it rode like a baby. It had started to rain though.
When we got home I unloaded the safe from the truck in the rain. Then I got the hand truck out of the back shed. It was easier to haul it to the house than I thought it would be. I unbolted the sage from it's pallet an got it on the hand truck. I had Ellen do very little because of her bag and pump. I did need her to help get the safe over the door jam. She misunderstood my instructions and ended up having to lift a lot more than I intended. I really wish that hadn't happened, but everything turned out OK.
Once the safe was in the house the rest was easy. The safe went in easy and fits fine. We do have to get something to protect the wall from the door. The last steps were throwing away the packaging and putting the hand truck back. Of course it stopped raining just about the same time we got the safe in the house.
After that it was almost 6, but we had to go to the grocery. We were out of a lot of stuff. Lucy had to go back in her crate.
When we got home we had a really late dinner, surfed a little, and watched a little TV. All in all it was a pretty full day.
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