Thursday, August 30, 2018

Oh my 55, dew on the grass, where did the summer go?

Day 74, "Every picture has a story"





From Cayuga, to Briton, to Forman, to Cayuga and now to St. Paul.  The story of the 3/4" maple boards goes on AND my hands are sore today!  On the back of some of the boards is stamped Cayuga so I assume there was a lumber yard or something in Cayuga a long time ago.  The first "home" of the maple was in Briton SD as they were used to build a bowling alley.  After that closed Mark S. dismantled it and built a racket ball court in Forman with the boards.  Eventually that ran its course and Mark took it apart and stored the boards on the farm.  This summer Terry and I drove up to Cayuga and brought a lot of the boards here to St. Paul.  Mark had taken nails out of some of the boards but most still had many nails in.  You can not pull them through the wood as the head is too large so they need to be cut on the back and then ground down to below the surface of the wood.  I NEED to take care of that as the boards have to be stacked along the wall so that the car can be put in the garage.  I spent about an hour yesterday doing that and I have maybe an hour or so left.  THEN it is stack the barn wood also.  What am I going to do with the wood?  Any ideas!!!  I will find a great way to use it but for now it just needs to be stored.  

Wow, a busy day yesterday.  The china cabinet and the buffet were totally emptied with all the dishes being put in the basement.  Travis came over in the afternoon and we moved the two pieces of furniture into the den along with the dining room table and chairs.  I was concerned about moving the china cabinet as it is solid oak, large and heavy but no problem as we put towels under the four corners and slide it with no problem.  A BIG job that needed to be done before we paint.  I did get some repair done on the walls but have a bit left.  I am pleased and surprised that the repair is so minor.  The room was painted in 2002 and I would have thought 16 years with 100+ year old plaster would have more cracks but really not many.  The only thing in the living room now are the TV and the couches.  We will move them to the middle of the room when we paint and then next Thursday, before we leave for Jamestown on Friday we will move those out as well.  It would be so so nice if Pete could work the floors into his schedule when we are gone but as of now he will be able to come over on the 10th, the day after we get back.  Anyway, yesterday was not a wasted day with naps etc. but rather a productive day which was nice.  

As I walked out to get the paper this morning I noticed that the lawn is fairly nice.  It is interesting as one waters the dry grass it just kind of stays brown but does not get any worse or better.  Then a gentle small rain comes along and presto, it is all green again.  I guess God's water has better proprieties than the chlorine filled city water.  

Terry is doing so well after her root canal on Tuesday.  Little or no pain but she is still kind of in shock with a pulled tooth, an implant coming and then the root canal AND all without any warning of pain.  I guess one could say "bad" that all the work has to be done but "good" that it did not come into being because of pain.  She certainly has been a trooper with everything.  If it were me I would have HAD to engage in some kind of "pity party" for sure.  I actually had to laugh as Terry posted some things on Facebook and MAYBE was needing some sympathy BUT instead a couple of people wrote back and listed in so many words their troubles and kind of said be happy!  Of course we know many people who suffer greatly so when I or Terry or others have health problems there is always someone who is in more pain or worse off.

As I was getting ready to go to mens' group last night I stepped into the dining room, out of habit, to get my wallet out of the buffet.  NO buffet as we had moved it to the den.  I then walked into the den and the buffet had NO drawers.  I then went to the basement and the drawers were UNDER the drawer from the china cabinet.  Finally I found it.  I guess the next few days or couple of weeks will be interesting for sure.  

No, there needs to be some things done before I meet a friend for breakfast at 9:00 this morning.  No breakfast at home today BUT there was FP and that helps get me going.  Some how it seems to soothe the morning aches and pains that us young people have!

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