Another damp morning. I was having coffee on the porch and much to my surprise a deer was walking down thru our field. She was walking so slow! Then she finally laid down in the grass and shrubs. I was wondering if she was involved in a car accident or maybe giving birth. But I thought they gave birth in March & April. So I watched her for some more. Time was a wasting and we had to run downtown to post office and couple other stops so we left. We returned about 2 hours later and the deer was up and walking around again. No sign of a little one. She finally walked north out of sight.
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| Deer in the back field. |
After supper, I was nice and comfortable on the floor with the dog, reading a book and Betsy starts calling Bob and I to come "smell" the downstairs bathroom. She thought it smelled like "mold". Sure enough it did. They started to investigate and noticed water dots around the ceiling light. Oh, no! They removed the ceiling light and fan-it was full of water. The ceiling could be pushed in where ever they put their hands, it was soaking wet! It's wet right below the new upstairs shower! Needless to say, we were sick. Bob and Betsy tried to find the source by cutting the ceiling board and both agreed it's coming from the new shower drain. I asked Bob to call the Bath place tonight!
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| Downstairs bath ceiling. All wet! |
Foggy day as I can't even see the tree line across the field.
I washed my hair in the kitchen sink! After all their work, this stinks! We waited for the bath man to come. When he was finally here, they poked and prodded for about an hour or so, looking thru the hole in the ceiling. They could see how the masonite floor upstairs was wet and where it originated- our upstairs toilet was leaking around the new seals. So here we go again, construction and it's our repair. The bath man was happy.
Bob went to Lowe's for more new seals for the toilet. After supper, Bob and Betsy took the toilet up and re did it all. Then they flushed it a dozen times to see if it still leaked. Downstairs, Betsy sprayed all the ceiling boards that she could reach with Clorox.
Fog is still with us this evening.
WEDNESDAY:
Another gray, wet, foggy morning!
During the morning, I cut up a great, big fruit bowl as Sarah loves fruit and she will be home for supper tonight. Her third year completed at Bryant University. How fast time goes.
Bob worked in the downstairs bath, cutting back more ceiling board. He had to come closer to the wall than they expected as it was wet. Oh did it stink from mold. I opened all the outside doors to let in fresh air. After I helped him to clean up the mess in the bathroom. One of us will have to spray all the ceiling board again with Clorox to get that smell down. We will have to let it dry a few days before putting new ceiling board up. This bathroom was just redone a couple years ago. Betsy isn't to happy that she will have to paint the ceiling boarder back on this space.
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| Downstairs bath problem. |
She's home! Sarah backed in about 5:45pm. Her car was packed up to the ceiling! She ran for the upstairs bathroom and was surprised to see our remodeling job. She thought it was very nice. After supper, Betsy helped Sarah to unload her car; boxes, drawers, plastic bags, coffee pots, TV, and washing etc. How can they get so much in a shared dorm room? They just finished carrying it all in when it poured!
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| Sarah's back! More stuff downstairs! |
Oh my, a beautiful morning-there's sun out there. All during the winter I can't wait to sit on the back porch and have my coffee. It's such a treat! I visited with Sarah this morning. It was nice to hear all her plans.
In the afternoon, I left for a perm and on the way back home I drove into a down pour. The sky was all black and I saw a couple streaks of lightening. The traffic moved right along thou.
I'm reading a good book so I really didn't want to put it down to make supper. We were expecting David and Donna to leave off their dog...yep, Cocoa is visiting again. The kids are driving to Quebec City for the game between Utica College and a Canadian team. It's some kinda International game played every 3 years. They are giving the players a big tour of the city so Eric was lucky to be one of the players picked for the game. Well, back to my book.
FRIDAY:
Of course, it's cold, wet and drippy! On TV last night, they showed the onion fields which are under water or washing out of the ground completely. The farmers are going to have a big loss. That loss will be at our expense.
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| The new table and chair set. |
Bob went over to Sterling Tent and told them not to make any more covers; that we couldn't get them into the frame. They had tried also with no luck. Bob asked how much we owed them. They were nice about it and said "no charge!". When he returned we spent the whole afternoon assembling the new table and chairs.
SATURDAY:
Oh boy, Saturday was busy! Betsy and I was up early and she did her nails. I was making a folder for the new patio furniture. I mentioned that I would like to get the matching high dining table some time next week. She immediately went on line to see which K-Mart had them in stock. She said, "let's go!" She wanted to go shopping with Sarah to get her some business work clothes for the internship but Sarah probably wouldn't get up early anyway. The first store in Greece didn't have any even thou the computer said they did. So the manger called another store way over to Webster, then gave us directions and when we got there-no tables! The Webster staff had never talked to the Greece store people. So we didn't know which store the manager had called. The Webster staff offered to call the Victor store and see if they had one which could be delivered to Batavia K-Mart. So we should hear from them on Monday.
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| Working on the gazebo tent frame. |
It was blazing hot! That's wonderful but it was a bit much for the first hot day! We got the frame built and decided to quit until evening. The girls left for their shopping trip.
About 7:00 pm, Donna sent me a text that Utica had beat the Canadian semi-pro team! Eric played the whole game; he had one interception, one fumble recovered. They were thrilled.
Tomorrow we will work some more around the pool.
SUNDAY:
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| The gazebo is finished. Just have to get the cushions out. And the chandelier! Ha! |
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| Counselor Williams and Annalynn. |
Golden Gram
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