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Day 129

Posted 7/18/2020

Day 129: Saturday, great plans were afoot... so much so the anticipation kept me up to the wee hours of the morning... 5:10am the last number I saw on the clock before falling to sleep. Ya I slept in... not sure if people were making noise around me or not, maybe they let me sleep in... the boy plopped down on the bed about 10:30am with his iPad watching a video and broke the darkness. Good enough. Heather had brunch on so I was apparently getting up soon anyway. Always good to wake up to the smell of breakfast cooking... specially when breakfast involves BACON! The one unfortunate problem with breakfast today was that I was informed it was call Brunch due to the time of day it was... and we all know what Brunch means... It means you slept in late enough you are getting boned for Lunch or Breakfast, pick one and forget about it, this is the meal that's substituting for both of those.  I wasn't going to complain as Heather shortly there after started to shovel more goop into the ice cream maker. I took Lawson with me into the basement and had him sort through the wrenches and put them back into sets. Looks like I have about 3 sets of each, metric and standard, but no set contains a 10mm wrench... how does that even happen? I set up the dust collector, hooked it to the table saw, turned it on and the garbage can I bought collapsed under the pressure. I turned it off and made a temporary x brace out of wood and put it inside to keep it from sucking flat. It worked slightly better but needs something round and metal in there to keep it open that goes on the outside of the garbage bag... a job for another day. Once functional I made a shelf for the plants that were sitting on the dining-room table... that was the goal for today, clean up the dining-room some. Re-potted some more plants that were escaping the bounds of their limits or hand been in water long enough to develop roots. Only one plate of plants left on the table, we can eat there again. Part one of mission complete. Took a break, Heather is still working on the Tartan Blanket, almost finished the stripes going the one direction, looks good, she's having a hard time waiting to see what it will look like with the stripes going the other way, LOL... soon grass hopper... soon. Today, yes today was Pizza and Wing night... ok Wing night... Pizza sounded like a lot of work... and if we eat pizza too, we will have no room to put ice cream in our pie holes. On deck today was Peanut Butter and Chocolate Fudge in Vanilla Ice Cream... yes, I've said it before... this diet is a bitch, no one should be forced to eat food like this all the time, BAhahahhaaaaa.... Buffalo Wings, celery, cucumbers and blue cheese dressing.... DOH!!! I forgot to buy the Blue Cheese on Wednesday... OK going to have to go back to Heather's Ranch she makes... it's good to but really doesn't go with the mean as well. After dinner I picked another issue with the room to deal with, a pile of music books that had no place to live and a Keyboard that had no music stand on the back of it. I head out the the garage and cut a piece of sheet metal from my stock, 2 foot by 3 foot... ya, I'm not screwing around, this isn't going to be a normal music stand... this fucker is going to hold all the music I want to keep handy. Polished that up, marked it out, cut it to fit, bent it to shape, cleaned up the edges and Bob's you uncle... I put that on the keyboard... then I got rid of that pile of music books that kept falling all over the place. Some times it's good to be multi talented, wood and metal fabrication all in one day. Not in a timely manner... just in one day. It was late and getting dark by the time I finished... played with the keyboard a bit to test the stand and then packed it in for the day.