We cleaned up the dishes from last night, started the dishwasher, and then had coffee on the deck but did not have breakfast. At 10 AM we drove down to the Howell Farmers Market for the opening day of the outdoor season. We walked the market and then bought a bar of soap from Marjorie and a loaf of bread from Great Harvest. Marjorie is our favorite vendor at the Howell Farmers Market. She has liberal bumper stickers all over her van, grows her own herbs, raises honey bees, and makes her own soaps and other wonderful products. She went missing from the Farmers Market last season and as soon as we saw her this year we knew why; she was wearing a “cancer cap.” She is now cancer free and back at the Market, and it was really good to see her there.
On the way home we stopped at Home Depot to look at vinyl floor tile. Their selection was different that Lowe’s but no better. We spent most of our time looking at various wood flooring products and brought home four samples plus a small vinyl tile sample. When we got home we had toast for lunch using the bread we had just bought. I started a load of laundry and then settled in to review my Exterior Makeover article. I made final corrections, uploaded it to the READY folder in my Dropbox, and e-mailed the editor and publisher of Bus Conversion Magazine to let them know it was ready.
We both took breaks from what we were doing to look at the floor samples in the bus. We did not like any of the woods. The vinyl tile sample was OK, but not quite right. At the store most of the lighter shades of faux stone style vinyl tiles had a lot of grey in them. I did not think grey would look good in our bus but it turns out that the Corian surfaces have grey flecks, the wallpaper has a lot of grey, and the leather furniture may have more grey in it than I realized. And yet when I visualize the interior of the coach what I “see” is walnut and brass. We need to look somewhere other than the big box stores for vinyl tiles.
The DVD of Sherlock, season 1, episode 2, would not play correctly on the DVD player in our bedroom last night so I put it in the DVD player in the basement to see if it would play correctly. Linda did not stay awake to try and watch it last night, which was just as well, so I suggested that she watch it and see if it played OK. It took a long time for the player to decide to play the disc but once it did it played all the way through. That told me that there is a problem with the old Sony VHS/DVD player in the bedroom.
While Linda was watching Sherlock I moved the laundry to the dryer and then started compiling my posts for April 26 through 30, 2015 into a single post. I got that done, uploaded it to our blog, created the tags, and published it. I made it back upstairs just as Linda was putting dinner on the table. Much of life is timing, good or bad. We had leftovers from last night, including salad, veggie-fruit kabobs, and potatoes.
We left a little after 6 PM for the May meeting of the South Lyon Area Amateur Radio Club. We normally meet on the second Sunday of the month but always move that up to the first Sunday in May to avoid Mother’s Day. We arrived right at 6:30 PM and there was already a good crowd there but the club president was not among them. At 6:40 PM I was getting ready to convene the meeting when someone pointed out that the start time had been changed to 7 PM two meetings ago. I guess we should read the minutes, especially of meetings that we miss (like December through April). Our business meetings are usually short followed by a program. Tonight, however, we had a presentation from our field day committee followed by a discussion and a motion to approve a budget for the activity which was unanimously approved.
After we got home I brought the DVD player up from the basement and we watched episode 3 of season 1 of Sherlock. The disc and player worked fine, so I will be looking for a replacement for the old Sony player sometime soon.