And the Rain Begins

This morning when I got up it was already drizzling and it went from drizzling to real rain all day. This morning after breakfast I went outside and raked the front lawn as it was just a very light drizzle at the time, so I thought that I would take advantage and get some of the leaves up.

After I put my rake back in the garage, I cleaned up and got the mail. There was a magazine for Kathleen and a couple for me the rest went into the recycling pile. I thought that I had heard Kathleen moving around upstairs so I went up and gathered up the laundry and took it downstairs and start a load of dark clothes. Kathleen came downstairs after a while and made herself something to eat.

By the time she was sitting at the table eating the first load had finished drying so I took it upstairs, folded and put it away. Then by the time I got back downstairs the second load of laundry had finished washing so I took it out and put it into the drier.

Stan came over to refresh his memory as to what we were going to do in the downstairs bathroom and while he was here the second load of laundry finished drying so I took it out, took it upstairs, folded and put it away.

Then I rejoined Kathleen and Stan to finish going over what we were going to do. Stan and I went outside so that I could show him the color of the trim around the windows and see what he thought as far as color for the windows. I think that he and Kathleen decided that we will go with white windows and then keep the trim color the same as what we have had.

While we were outside it really started to rain hard and even standing under the fir trees I was getting a little damp. After Stan left I made myself some lunch with the left-overs from last nights dinner.

Then Kathleen and I took off to Parr Lumber to order the window glass for the new bathroom window. After Kathleen picked out what she wanted we went to a few counter top shops see what they had and try to narrow down our choices.

The last shop we went to had some really nice granite slabs and we found one that we kind of liked out in the yard and he said that we could have that piece for forty dollars, which was a really good price. While we were looking at the granite it really started raining and my outer shirt and hat got rather wet but there were no fir trees to stand under.

Anyway he also said that it would cost another two hundred and fifty dollars to cut the sink hole and faucet holes; polishing the sink hole and the cut side; that price also included the under counter sink which he would attach for us.

So for about five hundred and fifty dollars we would have a one piece counter top, that is bull nosed and an attached under counter sink.

Well, I have been a bad boy the last couple of days and not worn my compression socks and tonight after I took off my anklet socks I could see the impression from the top of the sock around my ankle so I guess that I am going to have to wear them again.

I am hoping that I can get to the point where I can wear them maybe every other day or maybe wear them two days and not wear then for a day just to get some relief. My feet are still not as swollen as they were before I started wearing the compression socks.

It is now after 1830 and I think that I am going to have to remind Kathleen that it is time for dinner and see what she has in mind tonight.