April 30th - Back in Missouri

I enjoyed my time in Tennessee. Pretty much accomplished everything I wanted to get done. I arrived back home in Missouri around 9:30 last night.

The dryer in our combination washer/dryer, in the motor home, quit working during our last trip. I haven't had time to look at it yet. (You can't do anything without taking it out of the cabinet and that looks like a pain.) I bought 50' of clothesline and stretched it up between to trees that were about 40' apart. Looks like I should have bought 2 - 50' lengths, I sure had this one full when I washed sheets.

 Sunday afternoon things were still wet, but it wasn't raining. I took a 2 hour walk around part of our property. I crossed two waterways like the one below, only I crossed where they were a little smaller. I came to one that was just to big to wade across without getting water into my boots so I turned back. There is no water at these locations during dry times.

The noise in the video is just from the rushing water.

During my walk I didn't see any mushrooms nor any dogwood trees on our property. Dogwoods were out because there were several behind the neighbors house.

While I was gone the contractor came and installed our new metal roof. Another one came and installed several new doors and windows, and the satellite TV guy came out to re-install the satellite dish that the roofers had removed. A separate contractor came out to install new gutters and downspouts after the roof was finished. Kathy handled everything.

Our DSL modem quit working before I left, after a thunderstorm with lots of lightening. It took Kathy several phone calls but they finally sent her a new modem. It wasn't the only problem. Finally they sent out a service guy and he determined that the phone line back to our house was bad. I got the modem working this morning. I had to uninstall and reinstall our wireless printer to get it to work but now everything seems OK.

Kathy had lots of things to keep her entertained while the contractors were here. As they were leaving the roofing guys knocked out part of a stone retaining wall when the rear of their trailer swung wide as they made the turn to head down the driveway toward the road. They didn't stop. The door/window installation guys did a reasonable job of putting the stones back in place. The satellite TV guy tried backing into one of the levels of the yard and got stuck. The door guys pushed him out. We probably should have given the door guys a big tip.

I had a full truck load for my trip home. I had most of the box filled level full of wood that I cut while in TN. I also had 3 bar stools in the back. The back seat was full of tool boxes. I got everything unloaded today. I split the wood that needed splitting and have most of it stacked under the boiler enclosure. We don't have the boiler running right now but will probably start it back up tomorrow evening. It has been hot enough the past two days that we have had the AC running. I think it got to 84 today.

I got the lawn mowed but didn't do any trimming yet. In the morning I may go to the hardware store in California and buy the new mega weedeater that I have been lusting after.  It takes me longer to do the weed eating that it does to mow, and mowing takes long enough. It isn't that there is so much to mow, its just that there is no place to go straight. You are always turning around something.

I fed the fish this afternoon. Saw lots of catfish but nothing else.

Lydia comes tomorrow. I can't wait to see her.

I hope all of you had as nice a day as I did. May God bless you and yours.