Friday started off with a late 6'ish roll out for me and then a few quiet moments and the posting of this ramble before some oatmeal with cinnamon and honey for breakfast. I wanted to rest up totally before hitting the pickle ball court on Monday plus I still have a touch of the sore throat which is improving daily. I decided to head over to my female barber who had 4 people waiting in front of me. I noticed a fellow in the chair and I thought to myself I know that man from somewhere then it dawned on me he helped me build the 2 additions to our house back in '88 and then again in '93. Bobby was just about 12 or 13 of age and into guns so this fellow named Jack took us with him one Sat. down to the skeet club and taught us to shoot trap. That's been 20 plus years ago and he has since retired after working for a friend of ours who owned a masonry company which has now also retired and the primary owner was killed in an accident the year I retired. Well it took a few minutes for him to recall but when he called me "butch" I knew he remembered my family and me.
After the ear lowering I headed to Home Depot for carrot and radish seeds to plant in my side garden. I covered them with chicken wire to keep the pesky squirrels out of the soil as they are diggers and hiders of acorns and are constantly digging in the yard and garden. It was a bit chilly with the dry air at a constant breeze despite the bright sunshine. Nancy had gone off with Amy to do some shopping before lunch so I made a chicken salad complete with fresh grapes, celery, onion and mayo for when they picked up GG from hair dresser and Sam from school and then all came for lunch. The garden looks great so far and I haven't lost any seedlings I brought back from the cabin and so far none of the recently purchased seedling.
I spoke with our "mountain mom" Helen and she said they had a dusting of snow with temps down into the low 20's and the wind chill down into the single digits. Yeow this cold at this early of the year looks like its going to be a hard cold winter for the mountains and even for us here in Florida. We haven't had the a/c on since coming back on Tuesday and that is really strange and different for us.
Well Neil and Dan at Twill Auto who are also our house church member's installed new plugs and coils for each cylinder on the truck but wasn't able to determine just yet the pecking noise, but thinks it may be a lifter that is sticking and causing the noise; so it will go back in the shop next week. The plug extraction is a big deal for this model on Ford trucks as they usually break off in the block after their life at around 100K miles but that procedure went smoothly. We just now need to fix the noise in the engine and hopefully it either the lifter or a fuel pump, oh well. The truck is nearly 9 years old and getting close to the 100 K as well. The price of trucks is outrageous and a repair shop is much less expensive than the purchase of a new one plus this '06 model still looks good both inside and out.
Well the evening brought to Dan and Carol's house just a couple doors up for a supper and then Euchre. We made a huge salad and Kathryn brought a dessert of hot fudge cake with ice cream and whipped cream(bad dog) and Dan picked up the best veggie pizza I've had since leaving Sparta from Domino's. We had a grand time and the guys whupped the gals 2 straight games in Euchre. We said our good-bye's around 9:30 after making plans to reorganize our house church and maybe planning a week trip to the Reno Area next August. Kathryn's brother owns a rental house there and she thinks it would be ours for the week for basically no charge. I love that area and it not that far from 'Frisco which is just a great place to visit and sight see. I lived in that area, 50 miles to the north for over 7 years before moving to Florida in '73 and I just loved the west coast of California. It would be great to visit the city where I spent some great years while flying in the Air Force from '66 to '73, LATER Here is the latest picture of my beautiful grand babies who came for a visit on Thursday after Ava came from school.
