Well, I finally got it, Jagger’s summer cold that is. Headache, stuffy nose and sore throat, super. Hope I can kick it in  a week. We do have a baseball game today at 5:30 unless it too gets rained out. I have a little bit of work that must get done before my conference call tomorrow morning and we need to do some more work around the house.
We did manage to get a lot done yesterday. The breakfast nook and dinning room are pretty much cleaned and packed up meaning we packed up all the extra clutter laying around. Jagger did a bunch of work on his room but once you climb over all the stuff in the hall (from his room), his room still looks pretty much like it did before. That tells you just how much stuff he too had, mostly under his bed and in his closet.
Jag and I did make it to Lowes yesterday for the big Memorial Day Sale as we needed a few new tools to round out our supply. I had been waiting for like 6 months to get our 89 year old neighbors tools as they’re moving and he had promised them to me as long as a year ago. Finally Saturday his wife called and said they were ready for me to come and pick them up. When I walked over, his wife asked me what I wanted to pay for them. This sort of caught me off guard as they had told me for over a year that they were going to give them to me numerous times. I guess they (or she) forgot or changed her mind. Old people sometimes do that. I said I’d come back and look through them after we ran our errands. When I went back I said “ok let’s look through the box and see what you have”. His wife said, “oh just take them all” as they’re moving in a month. I again said I’d better look through them to see what I needed, now that I had to pay for them. I asked what she had in mind and she said, “oh I don’t know, $100 or $125”. Right them I knew we had a problem but went through the motions of looking anyhow. Initially I was excited as old tools are great but I knew there was no way whatever they had was worth that kind of money. Most were rusted except for a few old saws and the actual tool box was nice. After looking though them with her husband, I told him sorry but I think I’m ok and already have most of what was in the box. He was nice and fine with it but who knows what his wife thought. Lori says she was counting her cash before I ever came over. She had also offered Lori a few old quilts but when Lori looked at them, and said she wanted $75 a piece, Lori too passed. I never saw them and asked if they were warm and functional as old quilts are usually pretty good finds but Lori said they were mostly decorative and no way worth $75. So unfortunately no great old treasures were found this time, and that’s why I went to buy a new hacksaw, pry bar and 24″ cross cut saw.
I’d like to find a generator and chain saw with a 20″ bar which is what I really need, but these are hard to find at garage sales or second hand.
I’m drinking dandelion tea with honey right now trying to feel better but so far it’s not really working. Guess I should run so I can start to get moving. There’s laundry to fold and more to dry and lots to put away. It’s all green everywhere from the rain but Texas and Oklahoma are really getting the brunt of these storms with tornados and flooding everywhere. Newscasters are using terms like biblical, hmm.
Time to go, God Bless.