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Barbara
Fritchman Thompson Diary
Week
of 26 September 2005
Latest Update Sunday, 2 October 2005 4:30
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Monday,
26 September
2005
It
remained cloudy, overcast, and humid all day but produced very little
in the way of rain. It was steady at work but nothing over whelming to
talk about.
I finished up the B&B mystery at lunch today. I think I will
take a break from the Mary Daheim series and read a new author Frank A.
Smith. His character, Neil Paget is a DCI in Shropshire, England. There
are only five books in the series with the last one coming out in 2003.
Bob has read the three the library system has.
Guess I better run. I am in the process of cleaning the over head stove
fan and hood. I kept smelling grease when I would go in the kitchen and
discovered the range hood screens were coated in the stuff plus the
hood itself.
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Tuesday,
27 September 2005
No update.
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Wednesday,
28 September 2005
Last night I had a slight mishap with the
garage door when I pulled in. I never hit the button to bring it down
until I have pulled all the way in. Last night as I got almost in the
door came crashing down on the very rear of the car where the spoiler
flange is above the door. It bent the hell out of the garage door and
put a smaller one in the flange. The only thing I can think happened
was I hit it twice and it reversed on me too quickly before I could get
all the way in.
Handy man Bob managed to get the roller pin back into the slot so we
could shut the door. It works fine but now we have two damaged garaged
doors. The other one was not working all that well which is why I
switched to this one. Once Bob get's the book done we see about getting
it repaired.
By the time we fixed the door and ate a light dinner it was well after
6:30 by the time I got to the gym. That threw me later getting home
thus no time to put up a post. I scanned my e-mails quickly for
anything important and called it a night.
I finished the Frank Smith. I highly recommend his books. They read
somewhat like a Dorothy Simpson. Next up, I shall read the last and
most recent book in the Mary Daheim Apine series to get caught up on
that one. I still have two left in the B&B and two more of the
Frank Smith. Once I get caught up on library books I want to read a
couple of things from my TBR pile.
After work I stopped at the library to help take down the remains of
the book sale. We box it up for various local charities to haul them
off. That only took about an hour. I stopped at the Wing Zone across
the street from the library to try their take out menu. The food is
cooked to order. It was very tasty and they deliver.
As usual it is getting late and I have just sat down to check my mail
so I guess I better finish this up for now.
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Thursday,
29 September 2005
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Friday,
30 September
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The usual for last night, last back from the
gym, etc thus no post. Today was my last day of work nine days. I will
be on vacation next week. Marcia and Miss Lucy will be coming down.
I made a quick grocery store stop to get us through the weekend. Marcia
and I shall go to the store to shop for food once she arrives.
I hope to make a tentative agenda based on the long range forecast.
However, tonight stumped all the weather gods completely. It was to be
a very clear and cool night, perfect weather for going up to Bullington
to observe. This morning on the way to work it was looking really gray
and cloudy. By this afternoon tonight's forecast had gone down the
tubes. Oh well, now that is gets darker earlier we can take advantage
of clear nights during the week and still get home at a decent hour for
me to go to work.
It works out just a well. Bob has been working really hard to get the
book in under deadline with time to do some last minute clean up the
last week. For some reason I slept horrible last night and felt pretty
tired all day myself. I certain resting this evening and getting a good
nights sleep will take care of that.
I am reading the next Alpine book, The
Alpine Quilt. As I mentioned earlier in the week it is also the
most recent book in the series until she comes out with R.
It would nice if the clouds were bringing in some rain for tonight and
tomorrow. We really need it.
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Saturday,
1 October 2005
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It has been somewhat of a leisurely day. I
started off downstairs this morning getting the finished area cleaned
and freshened up for Marcia and Lucy.
Around 9:45 I took the dogs out back to play. Mimi was out with Oscar
in their back yard and yelled for us to come on down. We had a nice
visit while the dogs had some playtime. I finished up the downstairs
before lunch. After lunch I read the last six or remaining chapters in
the Alpine mystery before getting started on the upstairs cleaning.
The remainder of the afternoon I spent at my desk clearing away some
paperwork, paying bills, etc. I am getting ready to run by the library
to return some books, make a pet store run, and pick up takeout for
dinner. Bob decided he wanted Chinese.
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Sunday,
2 October
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Busy day! After reading the paper and eating
breakfast I took off for dad's stopping along the way for gas and
money. I put out dad's seed and fertilizer in hopes that the promised
rain showers for the week make an appearance.
Back home after Bob cleaned out the gutters I blew the leaves from the
driveway and natural areas before staring on the lawn mowing. Bob came
out just as I was starting up the mower to say Marcia was only twenty
minutes or so out. Since I had not mowed in two weeks and had blown all
the leaves onto the lawn I needed to go ahead and mow.
I finished the front and was partway through the back when she arrived.
After a quick hello I went back to the task at hand while Bob helped
unload the car. It is very, very dry. We have only had .07 inches of
rain for the month of September and very little in August. I was mowing
either grass or dirt depending on where I was in the yard. By the time
I finished I was covered in dust and sweat.
After I showered and visited a few minutes with Marcia she went
downstairs for a shower before we took off for the grocery store to
pick up a few items for the week.
Grilled chicken and zucchini for dinner for Marcia and I and steak with
macaroni salad for Bob.
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