Since Stan was not here yet I decided that I would go for a walk: Kathleen had stopped by to see the train wreck just above our place and suggested that I go up there on my walk. Well when I got up the two blocks away they had the roads blocked off so I had to walk up to 102nd and up the bridge to look across to the train overpass.
By the time I got back home my left hip was really sore and I had worked up a pretty good sweat. The walk up there was just that up hill; at least I got the hard part out of the way first...it made the walk back much easier.
As I was walking up to the house Stan was coming toward me; he had played golf with one of his sons and then stopped at Home Depot to pick up our hand rail and also the wood for the tops of Kathleen's counters in her new room (Toni's old room).
He dropped off the wood and then went back to his house so that he could pick up his tools. When he got back we fitted the boards to fit on the counter. We had to splice two pieces together as the boards were only two foot by eight foot. We also had to cut the back splash board so that it was only five inches tall.
Once Stan got the large board cut and we got it upstairs I scrapped the glue off the counter tops so that we would have a relatively flat surface to glue the counter tops to. After I finished scrapping the glue Kathleen used my portable vacuum and vacuum up the scrapings.
Since it was in a corner there was not a lot of air movement and I got really overheated so I went downstairs to cool off and rest. It had gotten to be lunch time so I fixed myself something to eat. I say the neighbor pick up her mail as she was going up her driveway so I went out and got our mail and read it while I ate lunch.
After lunch I put my dishes into the dishwasher and cleaned up a little. There really was not anything else for me to do so I did a few things on my computer and got some information for Kathleen.
One of the things that came in the mail was our natural gas bill, so I went online and paid it and the electric bill which I get notified through an e-mail. Once I got my confirmation numbers I plugged them into my computer checking account to make sure that I keep it current and as accurate as possible.
Aaron called this afternoon and told us that he passed his pilot's license so now he is an official "pile it". This is a picture of the type of airplane that Aaron will be flying this is a Cessna 172F; although this is just one of the airplanes that he is certified to fly.
Stan left around 1700 as he had to go over to one of his son's house and then tomorrow he is doing some flat work at his house and needed to get ready for that. He is going to put up a shed and is pouring the foundation for it. I do not envy him having to work with concrete when it is so hot out.
I remember when I was a teenager I did some work for one of our neighbors who had a pool company. I also did some flat work for one of my grandfather's old neighbor's who was a mason and he needed someone to help out on a couple jobs; so I how hard a job that is.
Well, we did not get the handrail installed today so that will have to wait until Stan can fit us in; he though that he might have some time in between a couple of his other jobs. This next week he and his wife are heading out a week early to our churches family camp. His oldest some is in charge of the maintenance department and they wanted to spend a little extra time there.
Tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer than it was to day; I know that they were predicting a very high possibility of over one hundred degree temperatures for the next two days. I am not looking forward to that at all!
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