Tuesday
We went in town in the morning to buy some concrete sealer
and other odds and ends. We had lunch at Sisters Café. The place is definitely
not fancy but they serve good food and the price is fantastic. Kathy had the chicken
liver dinner plate and I had a hot beef sandwich (Beef Manhattan). Kathy said
hers was very good. She had to ask for a box to take some home because they
gave her more than she could eat. Mine was, without a doubt, the best restaurant
meal I’ve had since we left Missouri over 3 weeks ago. The cost was about
$12, including my 60 cent cup of coffee.
After returning home I worked in the “cabin” and Kathy did
some laundry and cleaning in the motorhome. I moved everything to one side and
swept, with a broom, the empty side. Then I vacuumed it and mopped it. After it
dried I sprayed the floor with concrete sealer. The sealer will make the floor
easier to clean until we decide how we want to finish the floor.
The family came to our place for supper. Kathy fixed a beef
roast, with potatoes, carrots & asparagus, in an electric skillet. It was
awesome, as usual.
Wednesday
The overnight low was very near freezing. It was quite
frosty when we got up. Kathy did more laundry (laundry takes forever in the
small washer/dryer in our motorhome). I
repeated the floor cleaning sealing process on the other side of the cabin
floor.
The LED lights that I had ordered, to replace the fluorescent
tubes and bad ballast in one of the lights in our motorhome, had been delivered to Tom &
Mary Lou’s. They dropped them off and I installed them in the fixture. The
bulbs are expensive but they use a lot less energy, per unit of light output, even
less than fluorescents. I’ve read about buying 16’ strips of LED’s than can be
cut to length and used to replace fluorescent bulbs. Doing it that way is much
less expensive. I’ll have to do some more research on the subject.
Thursday
Kathy went “junking” while I continued working on the cabin.
She found a coffee maker, a toaster, and several other items for the cabin. We
rearranged some of the “furniture” we
have to get ready for company and I inflated some air mattresses for
beds. Tom & Mary Lou loaned us a table and a mirror that came from Raymond & Helen's (Mary Lou's parents) place.Doug called to tell us that he and Anthony weren’t coming down. He isn’t feeling the best and Samson has some type of ailment. As far as we know Kendahl (Kathy’s sister Judy’s daughter) and her crew of “spring breakers” are still arriving Friday afternoon. They are currently camping in the Smokies.
Kelsey, Lydia & Andy arrived a little after 6. Lydia was
glad to see her Grammy and Pawpaw, but I think we were even more glad to see
her. We had supper and then went to Tom & Mary Lou’s to show off Lydia
<grin>, and visit.
The telephone man came out to install our Internet line. He
had a problem finding a good “pair” of wires to use. He ended up tracking back
up the line several miles to find a good pair and then climbed one pole after
another to continue the good pair to our place. He only got as far as the “Picking
Barn” when he had to quit for the evening. He said he would return first thing
in the morning to finish the job.
Our AT&T phone service here is much better than what we previously had with Verizon. Derrick Burgess, one of our neighbors, said that Verizon had put up a new tower and that their service had improved. The service on my phone is good enough that I was able to watch a Netflix movie with very few interruptions due to buffering.
Friday
Tentative plans are to borrow a chain saw from Tom and cut some wood so that we can have campfires over the weekend. Last night, coming back from Tom & Mary Lou's, it was clear and the stars were brilliant. I think Kathy & Kelsey are going to hit the Crossville stores again.
May God bless you and yours.
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