Day 640

We woke up at 7:30.  I wanted to get a early start today.  That turned out to be a good thing.  We did the pet stuff, had breakfast, and left to do the wash.

After the wash we drove to Hooch's place.  The water in the pond was very low.  I did some poking around and found that a float valve that controls the level was jammed against a pipe.  The only way to fix it was to devise some way to push the pipe away from the valve.  Of course the only tool I had was my Benchmade knife.  It took three and half an hour to attempts to fashion a strong enough forked branch to do the job.

I called Mom when we left Hooch's.  She didn't answer.  When we got there we rang the doorbell, no answer.  We went back downstairs and convinced them to let us in.  Mom was still in bed.  It turns out she hadn't gotten up, and had pissed the bed.  The next hour and a half were getting her up and getting the bed fixed.  She was crying and all upset.  We did show her where her new underwear was.

We went to lunch at the nearby bar.  While they waited I went back and made sure the pond was OK, it was.  Did I mention that there were flaggers on the road between Hooch's and Mom's?  One more pain in the ass.

After lunch we took Mom to Fred Meyer to get some nightgowns.  I had her buy two.  She also got some cookies and ice cream.  We didn't get back to her place until after 3.  Ellen had the shits, so we spent another half hour there while she sat on the can.

Of course traffic was jammed by the time we left.  217 was a parking lot.  I went down 158th, through BIR, down Murray, the down Scholl's ferry, and through Sherwood to I5.  The traffic wasn't really bad, but it wasn't good.  Of course it took a long time.

We didn't get home until after 5.  I fixed the bathroom sink drain (another pain in the ass) and then had dinner.  After dinner I went out to the shed and continued to work on the timer.  I got the mounting plate mounted to the box and the timer mounted to the plate.  I got 3 of the 4 external connections done.  I stopped before 10 because the bugs were driving me nuts.  I did my exercises and went inside.

After a little surfing I went to bed.