Friday, October 20th, 2017…...
We had a few things on our agenda for
today. First up was to go eat! We went to Kevin’s in town but they were
packed. I guess folks have nothing else to do when it rains but go eat! Anyway,
we drove up towards Albany and stopped at Shirley May’s place. This is a tiny little place that Rick and I
went to when they were here visiting.
Lydia had never been… We got
seats at the counter because this place was full too! Shirley waits tables and she has one lady
cook and one person for the dishes. The cook makes each order start to finish
so we had several ahead of us. We could
see them being worked one at a time so we knew it would take a while. Tough part was sitting for so long on the
barstools with no backs! I had to get up
several times to stretch my back. But the food was good when we got it and we
were happy that it stopped raining in the time that we were there. From there we headed to Walmart for some
serious grocery shopping. We got home
and put the stuff away and went over to Penny’s to take her some items she
wanted. She is still sore from
yesterday’s biopsy. I also put up curtain rods in her living room and fixed
some drawers in a cabinet for her office. Afterward, we came back home to
rest. I spent the afternoon calling my
other 3 contractors letting them know if that still wanted to submit a bid,
they better get it to me soonest! I
already had that astronomical ($117k) bid from Jeremy (number 1). Later that
afternoon, I heard back from Arron (number 2) who gave me a rough bid over the
phone. I asked him to not work on it to
get the final number as he was higher on the pole barn than Tim (number 5) was
for a stick built structure. I would rather have the building made
conventionally (stick frame) as opposed to a pole barn (poles buried in the
ground and walls and roof made from trusses) because I’m told stick frame
construction lasts longer. Still waiting
on Rocky (number 3) and Kenneth (number 4) but it’s coming on the weekend so
I’ll wait until next week and if I don’t hear from them I’m going with
Tim. Lydia picked up stuff for chicken
and rice soup for dinner and she got that going. We were going to have cornbread with it but
our stove is still giving us fits. I’ve
got the owner’s manual in my office now and am reading it in hopes that we can
sort it out. Brian – we need you to come
visit and bring your expertise! But we
did have homemade banana pudding for dessert and that was really tasty! Later,
it was tv then bedtime.
Saturday, October 21st, 2017…...
Last night was exciting! We had some serious winds, the highest we’ve
seen since we’ve been here. We had a
plastic chair blow right off the porch last night. We have no trees close to
the house but when we woke up this morning there were leaves all over the lawn
from the trees waaay far away! But no damage so that’s good.
Today was a lazy
day. We had nothing on the agenda today,
plus it was raining, so we spent it around the house. I did the vacuuming and
then we got out some luggage for Lydia to choose from. She wants to do carry-on all the way but she
is going for 7 days, plus I don’t want her lugging a suitcase on and off the
plane or in Houston for her stop, so I think she is better suited to just take
a larger suitcase and check it all the way to Fort Myers. She also washed
clothes and bedding so I won’t have to worry about that while she’s gone. Plus,
she wanted some of the clothes to pack. We ate a bbq rib dinner and watched tv
and talked about the trip a bit before calling it a night.
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