Day 1196

It was 34 degrees when I woke up at 8:15.  The first order of business was to go back to sleep for half an hour. Then I stayed in bed surfing until 10.  Then it was pet stuff and breakfast.

I decided to get a few minor chores out of the way.  I had Ellen sort through the old cleaning stuff, throw some away, and put the rest under the guest bath sink.  That officially ends the moving of stuff back into the bathrooms.  Then I got out the two frames and pictures we had sitting in the guest bedroom.  It took awhile to unwrap the frames.  they each had 5 pieces of cardboard stapled to them.  It took vice grips to remove the staples.

Ellen put one picture in a frame and I did the other.  We walked around the house for awhile deciding where to put them.  There aren't many possibilities.  We settled on replacing a picture in the entry way and putting the other in the kitchen.  I also got a road runner sculpture we bought last fall and hung it up in the cat room.  It balances one already there.

I took the picture we took down to the apartment.  I hung it and the poster from the Lincoln City eclipse in the kitchen.  They both look great there.  I did my exercises before going back to the house.

That pretty much ended the work for the day.  After a little surfing it was lunch - the last of the brisket.  Both Lucy and Devon got some crumbs.  Devon wouldn't eat his until he figured out that that was all he was going to get.  I think he wanted his frozen chicken.

We went to the post office to get the package that should have been there yesterday.  Then we went to Wells Fargo to get more cash.  They still haven't sorted out their server problems, but apparently it's getting better.  After that we went to the coffee shop and Best Buy.  Neither of us wanted to go home.  We just walked around Best Buy looking at things.  We didn't buy anything.  Everything we wanted to buy was fairly big ticket and can wait until Ellen goes to Oregon next month.  That way there's no sales tax.

We got home about 4.  At 5 I took the dog to the mailbox.  It was windy and about 37.  I forgot to put on a coat, so it was a quick trip.

Dinner was Costco chicken alfredo.  It wasn't very good.  I bagged it and ate the smoked salmon that Ellen fixed today.  It was really good.  After dinner Ellen watched chick flicks and I surfed.