Apr 17th - Tuesday Evening

Kathy is in Missouri. She is flying back to California on the 24th.

I was outside all day Monday and, even though I don't think I worked that hard, I was POOPED Monday evening. Even though the camp furnished supper that night I went back to the RV after "work", took a shower, warmed up some ham & beans for supper and was in bed by 8 PM, although I read for an hour before going to sleep.

Yesterday, Monday, I made myself eggs and sausage links for breakfast. When leaving the RV and heading to the maintenance building I drove by these deer. The gray on the far side of the photo is the road leading the other way, the roads in this area are one lane. This grassy area is less than 100 yards from our RV. As I was driving away I saw the deer cross the road I had just come down and head into the woods.

This morning I got up at 7:30 and went down to the Dining Hall for breakfast. I also had lunch at the Dining Hall today.

Today I put cove molding around the perimeter of the bathroom floor and put on the first coat of "rubber" paint. In the morning I will add a second coat of the "rubber" paint and hopefully on Thursday I will put on the finish coat. This is the floor after the first coat.

 This is the coating the camp is trying out in bathroom and shower areas. The idea is to take the coating slightly up the wall to protect that joint against moisture. After finishing the three coats the area is supposed to hold water. Obviously this floor won't since there is a register right in front of the door. There will be a threshold added under the bathroom door. It should prevent water from getting into the hall.

I also continued working on the "carpet pool" game. I've now stripped off the old carpet, pulled hundreds of 1 1/4 inch staples that were in the old carpet and sanded off as much of the old carpet glue as practical. This afternoon I also made new pieces for the ends. The old ones were shot. Making the new ones was interesting. They are pieces of 2x8 that have a single bevel on one side and a double bevel on the other side. I got a bevel cut on both sides but was having trouble figuring out how to cut the second bevel on the one side. Chris (one of the Tuesday volunteer guys) gave me an idea and it worked great. At least I think it did. Tomorrow I will put the new pieces on and will see how they fit.

No supper tonight at the Dining Hall. I went home after "work", took a shower, and made myself supper. I fried a couple of pork chops and sliced and fried half a baked potato that Kathy had left me for that purpose. I also warmed up some macaroni and cheese that I had made Monday night. I fried two pork chops but only ate one. I will have the other with a couple of eggs for breakfast, and fry the other half of that potato.

After supper I walked down to the Dining Hall (it is only a little over three tenths of a mile but it is really dark on the way back to the RV parking area), to access the Internet. While working on this post I am also downloading a map update for our GPS unit.

AARGH!!! I just checked and for some reason the download stopped. It appears that if I don't keep the download window open and active the download slows down to a crawl and then actually stops. I probably going to abort it since I think it will still take another couple of hours to finish.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.