Day 1684

We got up at 7:30.  I'm going t try to make that the standard getting up time.  After pet stuff and breakfast it was time to do yard work.

The entire trailer pad is overgrown with weeds.  In some places it's sparse.  In others it's really heavy.  One of the heavy places is right at the entrance to the car port.  I watered the area and we started there.  We worked until we'd cleared a ten foot square area in front of the entrance.  I took at least 5 big arm fulls of weeds to the dump area.I also cut the weeds on the outside of the storage building.

We plan on working sections of the pad like we did today until it is all cleared.  Then I'll spray poison on it.  While we were standing admiring our work we pulled a couple of weeds in the dry area in front of the trailer steps.  They came up easily.  So we spent some more time pulling up the weeds on the door side up to the front of the trailer.  That made things a lot better.

We won't be pulling weeds tomorrow.  We're going to John and Patty's.

After the weed pulling we did a little surfing and had leftover Chinese for lunch.  Then we put the dog in the truck and went shopping.  The first stop was the Salem farm store.  It was closed on the 4th.  So we went to Lowe's so I could buy the stuff I needed to fix the step Ellen broke.  We also stopped at Bed, Bath, and Beyond looking for dishes to replace the ones that fell out of the cabinet yesterday.  They didn't have any, but we bought some glasses to replace some we have that aren't really useful.

We got cat food at the pet store.  We stopped at Target for dishes.  The place has lots of empty shelves, just like the other two we've been in lately.  I think Target is in deep trouble.

When we got back I went to work fixing the step.  I cut out the broken part of the under tread.  I replaced it with a piece of square steel tubing.  I put a couple of screws in the middle of the tubing to support the tread.  I think it will work fine.

When i was finished I fixed myself a celebratory drink.  It was good.  Then we watched TV for the rest of the day.  Ellen fixed BLT's for dinner.