Linda was up at 6 AM and was out the door and on her way to Twelve Mile, Indiana at 6:30 AM. She decided last night not to have breakfast at home in favor of getting on the road. I slept in and got up at 7:30 AM. Lind’s homemade granola made for an easy, tasty breakfast.
Two landscapers showed up a little before 9:00 AM as I was getting ready to leave to run some errands and said Steve was on his way, so I stuck around until he got there. We looked at a few things together and then I left.
On the way home from running my errands I got a call from TOMTEK reminding me that we have an annual service contract with them for the main house furnace (hot-water base-board heat) and air-conditioner. I agreed to have them come on Thursday to service the A-C. Perhaps while they are here they can figure out why it makes a noise that sounds like the thump, thump, thump of a helicopter blade.
About a mile from the house I spotted a small Painted Turtle trying to cross Hacker Rd. A truck going the other way spotted it at the same time. We both turned around and came back. I got there first and put it on the front passenger floor mat after assuring the other driver that I was going to take it to our property and release it near the (neighbor’s) pond. Turtles have very little chance of successfully crossing a road most places, including around here.
The two landscapers worked into the afternoon. They could only go so far before needing Steve to inspect and approve their work. He did not make it back today and I think they quit working around 3 PM.
Education is what I did professionally for the last 21 years before I retired, and I am still doing it to some small extent. Back in the late winter I agreed to serve on a newly reconstituted FMCA national education committee. There are 6 – 10 people on the committee, depending on how you count, and except for a couple of staff at FMCA headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio we are spread out all over the U. S. Our meetings are, therefore, conducted by telephone conference with ideas and information shared via e-mail in-between. I also set up a folder in our personal Dropbox as a place to put documents so the committee can retrieve them.
We had our third meeting today from 4:00 to 5:30 PM EDT. I spent the rest of the evening creating an outline of a possible RV curriculum and dealing with e-mail related to our meeting. Linda got home at 8:00 PM and we had leftovers for dinner, after which I returned to my work and she headed to bed.
I have one, maybe two, days to concentrate on desk tasks. Once the Pack-Rat storage container arrives on Wednesday I will be tied up with house-related chores through the 19th and then company through the 23rd. I expect delivery of some HVAC equipment and materials during that window. With any luck Darryll will be here starting on the 24th and I will be tied up working with him through the end of the month. I’m hopeful, if not optimistic, that the landscapers will also be done with their two projects by the end of the month.