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Day 124

Posted 7/13/2020

Day 124: Not going to say it, you all know what day it is... And another late start... Seems I started playing with WordPress the other night and increasing the boys web presence... I poked at that some more this morning before things got going. More pancakes... my kinda and the boys kind... I made them to go with his ice cream but by the time they were made he had stopped asking for ice cream for breakfast which is ok because he probably didn't need ice cream for breakfast, but you know it wasn't a bad idea. I got the kitchen cleaned up a bit, dishes into the machine and on early today, sure it wasn't 100% and it pained me to run a less than full load through because I'm cheap but I did it anyway because I wasn't sure it I'd have the energy to get back to it later. It was visitation day at the big house today, Lawson's friends came by and they went for a bike ride and sidekick came by for a coffee... the 2 events overlapped as I had to look for a bike for the boy to ride. I abandoned Sidekick leaving him to tend the coffee, it took longer than expected. Unfortunately the car was never unloaded the other day because it was a day of rest (no I'm not going there again), the same car that Heather took to work... so we were in Plan B Mode. I looked at Rodger's old bike, pumped up the tires, lubed the chain and brake lines got them working, it was a little big, I cut the post and moved the seat down, he tried it... still not a good fit. Plan C involved Sidekicks's child's old bike... repeated the spring bike thing, filled the tires, lubed things, got the brakes working, adjusted the seat as much as possible, his knees were around his ears. SideKick finished off the pot of coffee inside... Plan D, there is another bike in the rafters of the garage. I climb up onto the SuperBee and dig it out from under the kayak and you know what? The tires were flat, everything needed lube and the gears and the brake lines all needed to be sprayed with WD40 and worked in a bit to actually function properly... adjusted the seat and he finally headed out with his friends. I went back in for more coffee... well I didn't really need another coffee anyway. LOL While we chatted I took on the task of re-potting the the plants Lawson bought on Wednesday that we bought pots for on Friday... Sidekick pointed out that I could have bought pots from the dollar store cheaper and he was right but that would have been an extra stop since the dollar store doesn't have dirt and we were kinda in a 'Get shit done now' mode on Friday night. It's hard to get to town an hour away, find food to eat and get shopping done before everything closes due to modified business hours... yes modified business hours... makes perfectly good sense... restrict the hours of operation so there will be less time that people can spread the COVID... Duh, doesn't that put more people using the stores at the same time and increase the chances of... Ya well don't tell anyone. Where was I... Oh yes so what started as a Buy Mommy a Plant has turned into a major project... the little $3 pot of Hens and Chicks that was root bound and crying for help is now about 20 separate individuals in over a dozen pots... a few of the plant on the window got treated to a new place to live as well as the snake plant got spread out some more. On Sidekicks departure I headed outside to work on the trailer... yes I saved that for the hottest part of the day because I'm dumb. Fortunately, rewiring the trailer and putting new lights on it involved being under the trailer in the shade for a portion of the time so laying in the gravel was fun, however out of the 4 bolts I needed to take off to remove the old garbage lights, only none of them came off with the proper size wrench I took all that time tracking down. They were rusted on pretty good, not that they had been on there for years... just the metal from china they were made of was just good enough quality to hold them to the trailer but not good enough for them to ever be serviced. I got out the ViceGrips and wiggled it back and forth a few times and the bolts broke off, no the plastic holding the bolts on, the Chinese have plastic figured out... it was the metal bolts that gave way first. Heather got home as I was cleaning up... we went out to pick up some sour cream for the pulled pork sammiches we were having for dinner and I needed to check the mail box... I got a package, I'll open it tomorrow. But we did need to take a look for the boy... they had been gone longer than normal and it was time for dinner. The 3 were eventually located and sent home. Heather made the boy a banana split with his dinner and we settled in to finish watching that movie from the other day... I can see that being a new weekly series some time in the near future, likely in the can already. Then we finished off with a few episodes of Space Force... Kinda funny.