Sharp's Travels

Ok today is my day to use my new paint sprayer to paint the primer on the tool cabinet. First I must tell you that I hate to paint. Ok with that said let’s get started. The directions tell me there is going to be some over spray so I laid a large trap on the floor of the carport. Then I got the tool cabinet on the tarp upside down so I can pray the bottom first I also laid newspaper around it for the over spray. I got a gallon of primer that I need to pour into the quart and half cup of the sprayer. I didn’t have a funnel handy so I use a measuring cup that I had in the garage. Well that didn’t work out as well as I got paint all over the sprayer, work bench and down the side of the gallon of paint. (Did I mention I hate painting?) Ok now after cleaning up some of the paint I spilled I was ready to do a test on a piece of cardboard. That went well so I started the spraying on the tool cabinet. Wow before I knew it I was out of paint and I also had some runs in the paint plus I had a lot of over spray. So it was back to the shop to fill up the paint cup. This time I got a funnel from Cheri to fill the paint cup, which worked much better. I did some adjustment on the spray gun so it wouldn’t spray so much. This time the spraying went much better but still had over spray. The total time of spraying was about 5 minutes. Ok now it is time to clean up the spray gun and I still managed to spill more paint on the floor of the shop and on myself. (Did I mention I hate painting?) I ended up with paint all over me and the spray gun. I think it took me an hour to get things cleaned up. I still have to turn the tool cabinet over so I can prime the rest of it. Now it was time for lunch and not sure I wanted to go back outside. I did go out and checked the paint and was mostly dry but decided to wait until tomorrow to finish the priming. I must say that I do like the way the sprayer worked and the finish was great. I think I will still hate painting tomorrow. Now it was time to head for the shower to see if I could get the paint off of me. I did another favorite thing this afternoon (not) going to Wal-Mart with Cheri to get groceries and pick up medicine for Grandma. We also go groceries for ourselves. We got a call from Larry and Denise around 5:00 pm telling us that they should get here around 8:00 pm and they arrived 8:30 pm. We had a good visit and talked about the new house. At 10:00 pm we called it a night as Larry and Denise were very tired form their two day of nonstop driving to get here.

I was awake before 5:00 am and couldn’t go back to sleep so got up, had a lot on my mine. We had a 10:00 am appointment to do a house inspection for Larry and Denise that they have put an offer on. We also took a bunch of pictures for them to see before they get here tomorrow. The house has very good bones and just needs to be updated. I had to take Grandma for her B-12 shot at 1:15 pm and didn’t have to wait very long. Shortly after I got home Mike and Pam picked us up to go shopping over in Wesley Chapel at Wire Grass Shops. Mike and I sat on a bench waiting for Pam and Cheri to do their shopping. I think we got most of the world problems solved. Then it was time to go to the Prime Bar & Grill to get something to eat. Then the girls wanted to stop at Penny’s so Mike and I waited in the car. From there we went to Sam’s to pick up a few things. We got home around 7:30 pm and had a wonderful time with Mike and Pam. Larry and Denise said that they would call us this evening to let us know where they were and when they would get here tomorrow. We began to get worry about them because it was after 9:00 pm and had heard from them so we called them and they said that they just got into the motel room and would call us back when they got settled in. When they called back they said that they left home at 6:00 am and got tied up at the border going through customs and was there for two hours. So they were very, told them to get some rest and we would see them tomorrow evening.

I didn’t have any plans on what I was going to do today which is usual for me. Needless to say I was slow about getting around this morning. It was almost 9:00 am before I was ready to get something done. I went over to the neighbors and weeded the flower beds and then back home to start some of the clippings from the Trinette Variegated Schefflera. If I can get some to grow I will plant them in the rock garden in back of the house. A couple of weeks ago I started some clippings of the Coleus and they are coming along nicely. I fixed some of the solar lights that were coming down. A couple of the stick back clips didn’t stick so I replaced them. I also got my shop cleaned up from working on the tool cabinet. I was done before noon and was too hot to work outside anymore today. Cheri was working on her Christmas wall hanging and things weren’t going well for her as I heard her talking to herself. Shortly after that she came out of the sewing room and said that she was done for the day. We got a call from Larry and Denise telling us that they want us to go and check out a house for them so I called the realtor and got an appointment for 10:00 am tomorrow. The Wagner paint sprayer I ordered came this afternoon so I spent some time reading the directions on how to take it apart and clean it as well as how to paint with it. Reading directions is something new for me as I usually go right to work with stuff and then read the directions if something doesn’t work right. Hopefully I can get the tool cabinet painted this week. This evening we got a call from Larry and Denise and told us that they were leaving tomorrow morning and coming down, they should be here sometime Wednesday evening.      

We were back to our usual Sunday routine. We picked up Grandma at 9:00 am and headed to church. Pastor Dean had a very interesting message today about other so called religions. After church we went to Fire House Subs for lunch with Mike and Pam along with their three grandsons. When we got home I settled in for an afternoon of NASCAR racing and Cheri with the book she is reading. After the race we watched a movie and then it was time for our Sunday night pizza. After another movie it was time for bed.  

Cheri and I went out for breakfast this morning at a new restaurant here in Zephyrhills called the Breakfast Station. They are open from 7:00 am until 3:00 pm and serve breakfast all day plus other things for lunch. It was very good and nice to have a good place to go for breakfast at a descent price. Then we filled up the car with gas and headed to Safety Harbor to see Mike and Mary as they have moved to a new house so today we took a road trip to see them and the new house. After visiting for a while we went out to Smoky Bones for lunch. Mike drove our car and showed us around Safety Harbor. It is a small and old town. Also took us though a big county park that is within walking distance from their house. We stopped to see a house that was really different. It was the first trip we have taken with the new car and got 35.1 miles to the gallon today.

Cheri informed me this morning that there was a sale over at Beall’s today and had shirts were buy one and get the second one for a dollar and some sort of discount. So Cheri thought that she should go and save us some more money. I worked on sanding the tool cabinet. The sanding went well after I got the right sandpaper. When Cheri got home she said that she had talked to Pam on the phone and that they were going to meet over at Hobby Lobby after lunch. After lunch I finished the sanding and now I am ready to paint. I got an e-mail the other day letting me know that my paint sprayer will be here late Monday afternoon. I also trimmed all the flowers back so they will bush out more. Later this afternoon we got a phone call from Larry and Denise telling us that they didn’t get the house that they put the offer on. The bank came back and wanted another $7000. They were very surprised as they had put in the full amount that it was listed for. Then the realtor told them that she had the price low so she could get an offer and knew the bank wouldn’t accept it, talk about wasting a person time and get their hopes up. I grilled a couple of the Omaha steaks that Darren got me for my birthday and father day. They sure were good and tender. We topped off the day with a couple of movies I down loaded yesterday.

I really don’t have much to write about today. I slept in until 6:30 am and it felt good. So I started out lazy and that is the way we ended the day. Cheri did go shopping over to Beall’s this morning, said something about a coupon that she needed to use. I think Beall’s know how women think because they always have coupons in the paper with all sorts of deals and most women like coupons because they think they are saving money. Then when they get home they tell us guys that we saved you this much money which we never see. I worked on the computer most of the day. I down loaded a few movies to watch on TV. When Cheri got home she finished the laundry and also did do anything else for the day. We both also did a lot of reading and watch very little TV. We had a pizza party to go to at 5:00 pm down at the Club house. They had a guy come in with 10 pizza ovens and were making all different kinds of pizza. It was all you wanted to eat for six dollars per person. It was pretty good and they plan on doing it again sometime.

I was up before 5:00 am as I had to be in Tampa by 6:30 am for appointments. It was a long day and didn’t get done until near 3:00 pm. Cheri worked on her Christmas wall hanging and said that things didn’t go the way she wanted them to. It was one of those days when we take one step forward and then two steps backwards. Ron had his heart surgery this afternoon. So Cheri and I went to the hospital to sit with Sandy along with their daughter Jocelyn and other friends. The surgery went well and he was in recovery when we left. Cheri and I went to get something to eat at Sushiko Chinese and Japanese restaurant. It was the first time we have eaten there and was very good. Ron and Sandy hat told us about it. Then it was time to head to church for our Bible study. Once again we had a hard time understanding what we were studying, just need to dig deeper into the subject. It wasn’t all that late when we got home but we were both stressed out from the day and decided to go to bed and watch some TV.  

I was awake early and couldn’t go back to sleep so I finally got up a little before 5:00 am. So I was kind of slow getting my motor started. Cheri had bought a bird bath a few months ago and then a few weeks ago she bought a pole to hang it from. So I thought I better get busy and put it up before Cheri decided to do it herself. After I got it up I put some water in it and it leaked like a sieve. So I had to put some sealer around the bolt that goes through the glass bowl. Then I cleaned the bird feeders and filled them with fresh bird seed. Then I worked on sanding the tool cabinet to get it ready for paint. That project didn’t go so well as the sanding belts all came apart when I went to use them so I decided to use one of my other sanders that uses hook and loop sand paper. Well that didn’t work either as the hook and loop came off the sandpaper. I guess sitting for over nine years in a container in our storage trailer caused it deteriorated. I did use another sander that I had for many years and it finally came apart. Well it was time to quit for the day as I had 1:00 pm security meeting this afternoon. Cheri continued to work on the Christmas wall hanging. She is in the process of doing the quilting on it now. When I got home from my meeting I could see she was a little frustrated and asked her if she wanted to go to Wawa down in Lakeland for a smoothie. She OK and wanted to stop at Jo-Ann’s to pick up some thread. We also stopped at Home Depot so I could get some sanding disk. We got home around 5:00 pm and decide we had enough for the day.   

It was an interesting day for us or I should say for me more than Cheri. After breakfast and my exercise I went over to the neighbors and weeded their flower beds. Then after getting our water bill for this month and found out that it was $40 more than last month it was time to turn the water timing down on the flower bed in front of the house. I think the plants are established enough now that they don’t need as much water, guess we will see what happen. After reading the instructions for the new Wagner paint gun I decide to return it and get the next higher paint gun as it has more options. I noticed yesterday that the main bathroom toilet was running and not shutting off all the way. So it was off to Lowe’s to return the paint gun and found out that they didn’t have the next up model. We did get the new toilet parts plus a new toilet seat that Cheri said we needed. She really wanted a new higher and longer toilet but after taking measurements we decided there wouldn’t be an enough room to get around it, so it is fix the old one. On the way to Lowe’s we stopped by Mike and Mary’s as Mike was here working on their house getting it ready to sell. We had a nice visit with him and they are happy with their new house. After I got the toilet fixed I went on the internet to see if Home Depot had the Wagner paint sprayer. They don’t carry it in the store but was able to order it on line. So now I have to wait another week for it to come. I also planted some flower chipping that we were rooting in some small pots to get them started. I also got the screw holes filled in the tool cabinet. I thought I was going to get it sanded and ready for paint today but ran out of time. Cheri was busy working on her Christmas wall hanging. Also put pork chops in the crock pot for supper.

Grandma didn’t go to church with us this morning. We had a special speaker and there wouldn’t be any message for Grandma to read so she was going to church with friends from Baker Acers. The special speaker was presenting The Walk through the Old Testament. We were showed how to remember using hand signals. It was very stressful for me and Cheri. After church Ron & Sandy, Mike & Pam, and Cheri and I went to Brandon for lunch at a new place called Corner Bakery Café. The food was very good. While we were eating we discussed the church service and we all thought it was too much to learn. There was going to be three more hours of it this afternoon. Pam had the right idea about it as she said give me an outline and a picture and she would get more out of it and we all agreed with her. After lunch we went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to pick up a shower curtain that Denise wanted. She e-mailed us and asked Cheri if she could pick it up for her as she couldn’t get it in Ontario. Then we went to Old Time Pottery where Cheri found new lamps for our bedroom. After we got home we check our paint supply and then went to Lowe’s to get the paint and a Wagner paint spray to paint my new tool cabinet. After all was said and done it was 5:00 pm when we finally got home. It was time for our Sunday evening pizza and an evening of TV.    

I was up early this morning, couldn’t sleep. So my blog for yesterday was done, my exercise was done, breakfast with coffee and internet and e-mails all done before 8:00 am. So I got an early start on my tool cabinet. Cheri took Grandma shopping this forenoon to buy some clothes. It was around 12:30 pm when she got home. After lunch she talked to Pam and they ended up going shopping this afternoon as they both wanted to go to Michael’s. I finished the tool cabinet around 3:30 pm. All that is left to do is sanding and painting. I was very pleased how it came out as I never had a plan; it was a plan and build as I went. I guess I did have somewhat of a plan in my mind how I wanted it. Cheri got home around 4:00 pm. She bought a pine plaque board to do a project for a friend. After supper we settled in for an evening of TV. We had another day without any rain, think it must be a summer record. 

Cheri’s exercise pool partner has moved and now I need to get something set up with the exercise instructions on it so she can continue with her exercise class (another project). Cheri continued to work on her Christmas wall hanging, she is working on the border and has it just about done. I worked on my tool cabinet and got it all assembled except for the doors. I made a trip to Lowe’s this afternoon to pick up the materials for the doors. When I got home I felt like I had done enough for the day. So after a shower and getting cleaned up we watched a movie. Then it was time to get ready for our first dinner club outing. It was an enjoyable time and got to meet some new friends from church. We also got a call from our son Darren and told us he has got a new job which was great news because the present job was going to end in October. The down side is he has to travel farther to get to it. We didn’t get any rain today, can’t remember the last time we had a rain free day.  

I had to get around this morning as Grandma had a 9:00 am doctor’s appointment. It was her wellness appointment and she got a good report. When I got home Cheri was doing house cleaning and laundry. I went out to work on my tool cabinet/project table. While I was working on it Cheri went to the grocery store to get groceries for Grandma. I ran out of screws for the cabinet so I took the motorcycle and made a trip to Lowe’s. I got home before Cheri. It was 1:00 pm before Cheri got home and we had lunch. I got 95 percent of the cabinet cut out and part of it assembled. By 3:30 pm I had enough for the day. I took a shower and got cleaned up and ready for a little relaxation in the recliner. Cheri worked on her Christmas wall hanging this afternoon. She quit when I headed to the recliner. So we watched some TV before having a supper of barbeque spare ribs that Cheri had going in the crock pot. We got more rain today, most of it came this morning.We finished the evening with some TV and called it a night. 

It was a sad morning as Larry and Denise left 8:30 am and headed back home to Ontario. We are really going to miss them as we have so much fun together. It rained most of day making it a wash out to work outside. So Cheri and I went and got haircuts which we had needed for a while. When we got home we decided to relax the rest of the day. While Cheri was reading I did some computer work. I got all of our pictures backed up from the computer to the new backup drive. I have been looking at Wagner paint sprayers and thought I knew which one I wanted after Larry and I looked at them yesterday but after doing some internet checking I think I have changed my mind, still in the information gathering. We watched our first movie that Larry showed me how to download. Everything worked well so now I need to get busy and download a few to watch. We met Ron and Sandy at Home Depot and rode with them for supper at Biagios Pizza and Pasta. We eat there last Wednesday before going to church for Bible study. So we thought we would do it again as it was pretty good. For Bible study we did chapters 6 and 7 of Revelations. I had a hard time this evening and just couldn’t get into the Bible study. It was 8:30 pm when we got home and I looked at the bed and Cheri said it was too early to go to bed. So we watched some TV before calling it a night. I checked the rain gauge and we received 1 ¼ inches of rain. 

It was a more relaxing morning as the house hunting was over so we took it easy this morning. Cheri and Denise wanted to go shopping so Larry and I were the chaperones. Our first stop was Wal-Mart over in Wesley Chapel. Then we dropped Cheri and Denise off at Jo-Ann Fabrics and Larry and I went over to Lowe’s to check out a Wegner paint sprayer. I thought it would be a good thing to use to paint the used table and chairs that they got for their new house yesterday. I got a call from Cheri and said that they were done at Jo-Ann’s and were going to Ross’s and Bed Bath & Beyond. When Larry and I got done we met them at HHGregg to check out the TV’s and furniture. Then we headed to Toys “R” Us, Denise is looking for some swimming fens for a project she is making. Our last stop was Dick’s and then headed for home but then Cheri had one more place she wanted to stop at, the second hand furniture shop in Zephyrhills. We finally home around 1:30 pm for a late lunch and some card playing. Then we decided to go downtown to see about getting an insurance quote on the new house that Larry and Denise put the offer on. We were too late as the insurance office closed at 4:00 pm. So we headed back home to play some more cards. Around 7:00 pm we went out for supper at the Island Breeze restaurant. When we got home we watched a little TV and called it a night.  

It was another busy day. This morning we went with Larry and Denise to Wedgewood Manor to meet with the president and secretary of the HOA board to get the rules of the subdivision with the dos and don’ts. Then at 11:00 am we had another showing of the house they want to buy. We wanted to make sure everything was as it was in the listing. After Larry and I went through everything we were pretty impressed how well built the house was. After our inspection it was time for Larry and Denise to go to the realtor’s office and fill out paper work and make their offer. An hour later Larry and Denise hear from the realtor, said that the home owners had accepted the offer. Being that it is a short sale they now have to wait for the bank to see if they will accept the offer. We had a late lunch and then headed to Clearwater to check out a furniture consignment store. Cheri had found the ad for the store in the newspaper and they were having a big sale. They had some very nice furniture. From there we headed to St Pete where they have another furniture consignment store. Larry and Denise did buy a dining room set with six chairs. They are going to store it for them until November. It was 5:00 pm when we left the store in St Pete and we got a taste of the rush hour traffic. It took us two hours to go the 52 miles home. I got the grill started to grill up some pork chops for supper. It was a late supper and didn’t get done until after 8:00 pm. There was still time to play a couple games of cards before calling it a day.   

We hadn’t planned on going to church this morning because Larry and Denise where here so Grandma made plans to go to church with her friends. We did ask Larry and Denise if they would want to go and they said yes so we headed to church this morning. Pastor Dean’s message was very interesting today, about other religions and cults. After church nine of us went out for lunch at Olive Garden. After lunch we went across the highway to HHGregg to get some answers on why I couldn’t get the smart TV we have to play movies through the USB port. Well turned out that I was using the wrong setup. It took the guy about 15 seconds to show me. As long as I had him to talk to I also asked him about how to set up the internet to the TV. That also took only 30 seconds. While Larry and I were doing that Cheri and Denise went to Ross’s department store. When Larry and I got to Ross’s they were about ready to check out, Cheri bought some pretty bath and hand towels along with matching wash cloths. On the way home we took a ride by the house that Larry and Denise is going to put the offer on. When we got home Larry and Denise where getting the paper work together that they need tomorrow for the house offering. I tried to get the TV set up to watch movies through the USB port. I did get it to work with a flash drive but not with the new Toshiba Canvio external hard drive that I bought just for movies. The drive works fine with the computer but not with the TV. So I took the external hard drive that I use for my back up files and tried it and it worked fine. So I guess I will use the old one for movies and the new one for a back up drive. After Larry and Denise got done with their paper work they did some more internets searching and found another house in the same sub division that was up for bids and could buy it now for $75,000. So we headed out to check it out, turned out to be in really bad shape and would cost at least $30,000 to bring it back in shape. Larry and I also watched the NASCAR race this afternoon. This evening we played cards.   

It was a busy day in the Sharp house today. First Larry, Denise, Cheri and I went down to the Rec hall for breakfast. I had said I wouldn’t go again but this morning they had scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuit, orange juice, and coffee, it was much better than last month with the under cooked pancakes. Then we went driving around different subdivisions looking for houses. Then we went over to Wesley Chapel and stopped at Sam’s. It was near lunch time so we checked out all the samples and then we each had a four berry sundae. Yes we did buy some groceries. Just as we came out of Sam’s Larry and Denise got a call from the realtor that we could meet and see three houses in Wedgewood Manor. So we hot footed it back to Zephyrhills to look at the houses. After checking out those houses we had a little time to kill before our next house appointment. The last house we checked for the day was a private sale and not so good. Then we stopped at Beall’s so Larry could get a pair of shoes that were on sale, but they were out of his size. On the way back to our place Larry and Denise decided to put an offer in on one of the houses we looked at with the realtor. So they were busy filling out paper work while Cheri got supper ready. Larry had showed me how to down load movies and be able to watch them on our TV. Everything went well until I tried to connect to the TV. I didn’t have any luck getting a connection to the TV, time to get the TV manual out, followed the directions in the manual and still no luck. Larry and Denise were done filling out paper work for the new house so we played a game of cards before it was time for me to do park security, Larry rode along with me as Mike was gone. So it was a full day of fun.     

After visiting, breakfast, coffee, and checking houses for sale on the internet it was time to head out check out some houses. Our first stop was Wedgewood Manor, it is a 55 plus community with a 175 homes. It is a beautiful subdivision and found a couple of homes Larry and Denise want to see. So they called the realtor made an appointment for tomorrow afternoon. We also found a couple of homes that were for sale by owner. From there we went to Spanish Trails West where Larry and Denise had an 11:00 am appointment to see two houses. One is home is on their final list. After checking out the two houses it was time to head back home for lunch. After lunch Larry called and made an appointment for 3:00 pm to see a house in Wedgewood Manor that was for sale by owner. So we played a couple of games of cards until it was time to go and see the house. It was a nice house but need way too much work to bring it back into shape. From there we headed to Lakeland as Denise had some parts from her old sewing machine she needed to return to the dealer where she bought her new sewing machine this spring. Of course Denise and Cheri had to stop at Jo-Ann Fabrics and Larry and I headed to Harbor freight to pick up our free things. After we picked up Denise and Cheri we stopped at Wawa for smoothes and then headed for home for supper and an evening of cards. It was another great day God made for us to spend with friends.      

When I saw Cheri this morning I said happy anniversary and she looked at me and said what for. I wouldn’t tell her and to let me know when she figured it out. It took a while but she did figure it out. It was one year ago today when we closed on our house, hard to believe we have been here for a year already. We have made several changes to the house and I am sure we can now call it our home. Later I took Grandma for her lab appointment and to the bank. Then it was time to get the shop cleaned up from my plumbing project I did yesterday. Larry and Denise arrived around 1:30 pm. We had a late lunch and visited for a while and then went and looked at some houses. Larry and Denise are looking to buy a winter home. They had a couple of houses that they wanted to see but the realtor was gone and should be able to see them tomorrow. It was around 5:30 pm when we got home. Cheri had a beef roast with carrots, onions, and potatoes going in the crock pot for supper. Afterwards we played cards until 10:30 pm and called it a night.         

We had a change in plans today or I should say I did and Cheri went along with them. It all started with the coffee this morning. Sometimes our water has a strong smell and taste of chorine, it seems like it has been happing more all the time. It makes the coffee taste really bad. So we went to Lowe’s and bought a drinking water system with its own water faucet. Cheri said if you are doing that I want a new kitchen faucet. I told her that was a whole different project and wasn’t going to happen. Well when we got home Cheri cleaned things out under the sink so I could install the new drinking water system and said it is damp under the sink. While I was installing the new water system I check and found the dampness was coming from the kitchen faucet. So back to Lowe’s so Cheri could pick out a new kitchen faucet. I was hooking up the new faucet and the connections where different than the old one. So I headed back to Lowe’s again to get the additional parts needed to finish the install (glad Lowe’s is only two miles away). It was near 4:00 pm before I got done. Cheri still has a to put things away but is going to wait until tomorrow so everything can dry out plus I still have to make a brace for one end of the self under the sink. A little before 5:00 pm we headed over to Home Depot to meet Ron and Sandy and they rode with us to Biagios Pizza and Pasta where we met Mike and Pam for supper. From there we headed to church for our Bible study class. Pastor Dean presented chapter five of Revelations and did an excellent job. On the way home we stopped to get groceries at Winn Dixie. It was a long day and was ready for bed.      

Cheri drove the car for the first time today going to the pool for her exercise class. I went through the stuff that was in the van; I threw away most of the stuff and put a few things in the new car when Cheri got home. Cheri busied herself doing some house work and I spent the rest of the morning reading and trying to figure out how things work in the car. I have found out that I am not smarter than a fifth grader. After lunch we decided to go for a ride and figure out some more of the stuff on the car. Cheri wanted to go to a quilt shop anyway so we headed to Plant City. We are really happy with the car, the last time we had a new one was in 1983. When we got home I was ready to rest as my brain was on overload. Cheri was busy in the sewing room with the fabric she bought today. Mike and Pam came over at 4:30 pm to see our new car and then we went downtown for supper at Manolo’s Italian restaurant. They have discontinued their early bird special for the summer so it was a little pricy but still good. We took our car so we could go for a little ride after supper around Zephyrhills and back to our place to play cards. Pam and Cheri won every game, not a good night for Mike and me.    

Cheri didn’t have any pool exercise this morning as Mike and Mary had to take their dog to the vet. Cheri has been busy getting ready for Larry and Denise as they are coming on Thursday to spend some time with us while looking for a winter home to buy. I went out and put up the solar rope light and then started to work on my shop cabinet. Back on June 24^th we ordered a new Honda Civic car and the sales manager told us he would give us a call on the 27^th to let us know when it would be built and delivered. Well Friday came and went without a call; I wasn’t happy but thought that I would wait a few more days. Well by July 4^th we still hadn’t hear anything so I sent an e-mail to letting him know how unhappy we were. I got an e-mail back that I wasn’t happy about and he said that he would call us on Monday with an answer. Around 11:30 am today we get a call from him telling us our car would be there this afternoon. They found one over in Orlando and had it brought over. So long story short at 8:30 pm we arrived home with our new car. They never told us but what I think happened was we got lost in the process and the car never got ordered. So to make up for it they traded a higher end car for ours from a dealer in Orlando.

Our Sundays are pretty much the same every Sunday. We picked up Grandma and took her to church with us. We had a guest speaker today who gave a wonderful testimony of his life. After church seven of us went for lunch at a new place in Wesley Chapel called the City Grill. Cheri and I split a Cuban sandwich that was very good. It was near 1:00 pm when we got home and the NASCAR race was on from the last night rain delay. So I spent the afternoon watching the race and Cheri spent a little time in the sewing room and then watched some of the race with me. We got more rain this afternoon and evening. I checked the rain gauge and got only a ¼ inch, thought it was going to me a lot more.

Cheri and I went out for breakfast this morning over at Rick’s restaurant on the other side of town. My breakfast was good but Cheri said hers wasn’t so good. As long as we were on that side of town I filled up the van using our Winn Dixie rewards and got 20 cent off each gallon. Then we went to Lowe’s to pick up materials for my next project. I want to build a cabinet that will be on wheels so I can move it around. It will have a work top and a place to store my saws and other wood working tools. When we got home I told Cheri I was going to take the day off and do nothing. Cheri headed to the sewing room to work on her Christmas wall hanging. I headed to the recliner to relax for the day. Well that lasted only about an hour and felt guilty not doing something. So I went out to the shop and then stated putting up the last solar light in the carport when it started to rain. So back in the shop to check out the battery pack on the solar light. I end up putting the batteries on the charger as they were dead from not being used for over a year. So I decided to start on my cabinet project. I got my power minter saw out and once again I could get it to work. So I told Cheri I was going to Lowe’s to buy a new one. When I got back home with the saw, check everything over and was ready to start my project when another rain storm came though so I call it a day. I checked on Cheri and she had the last panel done and was in the process of sewing all six of them together. She still has more to do before it will be done. I took a shower and got ready for the NASCAR race. Well the rain that went through here must have headed to Daytona as the race was in a rain delay and finally postponed it until 11:00 am tomorrow. I checked the rain gauge and received another ¾ inch of rain today.

Happy fire cracker day to everyone, for Cheri and me it was just another day. Cheri did laundry and worked in the sewing room. I worked outside getting the rain gutters cleaned out. Then I put up some solar rope lights under the new awnings. While I was putting up the lights I see the golf cart parade coming down the street so I went and got Cheri so she could watch them come by all decorated up, when they went by the threw us beads and candy. After lunch I was going to put up another solar rope light and it stated to rain so I quit for the day. After taking a shower I settled in to the recliner to read and Cheri joined me as she said she needed a break from the sewing room. It wasn’t long and we both were taking a nap. Then we watch two old John Wayne movies. The first one was The Hurricane Express which was made in 1932 and the other one was Blue Steel made in 1934. It was funny watching them to see the old cars and horses going so fast. It rained all afternoon and into the evening. I checked the rain gauge and we got over inch and a half of rain. When we went to bed we could hear fireworks going off all around us.   

It was laundry day for Cheri, she does some on Thursday and the rest on Fridays.  She got a call from Grandma letting us know that she needed groceries. So Cheri went to check on her and to get her grocery list and then to Wal-Mart for the groceries plus she had medicine ready to be picked up. Cheri spent the rest of her time in the sewing room working on the last panel of her Christmas wall hanging. I spent the day working on the security golf cart. My half day project turned into a two day project. There was a lot of extra work that needed to be done that I wasn’t aware of. I finally finished around 3:00 pm, was too tired to clean up the shop after I got done, something to do tomorrow.  When I came in the house there was that good aroma from the pork roast Cheri had going in the crook pot for supper. We also had rain showers off and on this afternoon and then around 5:30 pm we got a really hard rain and lasted for about an hour. I just checked the rain gauge and we got a little over an inch and a half of rain.

                                              

I was up early this morning had trouble sleeping; my mind wouldn’t shut down so I could get into a deep sleep. I kept thinking about the working on the golf cart. Shortly after Cheri headed to the pool this morning I went down and got the Security golf cart and brought it back home so I could work on it. I had figured I would be done by early afternoon. It turned out to be a bigger jog than I thought it would be. I quit working on it a little past 3:00 pm. I needed to take a shower and get cleaned up for our Wednesday night Bible study. Plus I wanted to rest for a while before we left. Cheri did her normal Wednesday house cleaning. She does a little of the house cleaning each day that way she doesn’t have to spend a whole day cleaning. She also went and got groceries at Winn Dixie as they had a lot of two for one sale today. This afternoon she continued working in the sewing room. We left the house at 5:30 pm to meet Ron & Sandy and Craig & Michelle at Beef O Brady’s near the church for supper. We drove though a really hard rain storm on the way and could hardly see where we were going but was over by the time we got to Beef O Brady’s. Pastor Dean did an excellent job helping us understand chapters three and four of Revelations.   

Well June is in the history books, I feel like I am on a slippery slope traveling downhill and time is going faster and faster (something about getting old). We were on the road at 10:15 am heading to Wesley Chapel where Cheri had an appointment. Then we headed to Tampa where I had a 1:30 pm appointment. We had just enough time between appointments to get a quick bit to eat at Burger King. We probably wouldn’t have stopped there but Cheri had a coupon to buy one meal and get one free. After all was said and done we were back home by 3:00 pm. After supper we made a trip to Wal-Mart as we needed some coffee and I wanted to pick up some LED lights for the security golf cart.