Catching up again!

Monday the 18th.
After a day of rest on Sunday, I went down this morning to get a starter but NAPA had to get one from the Longview store and it wouldn't be here until Noon.  I got the Blazer moved into the carport, jacked up and the starter out before they called to let us know it was there.  I had a little trouble getting the starter out, when it decided to come out, it fell and hit me in the glasses and scratched the left lens.  That was probably a good thing because it would have hit me in the eye if I didn't have glasses on.  I forgot to mention that on Saturday as we went through Chehalis the Blazer got a little noisier, the muffler had broken!  I ordered a new one when I went down to pick up the starter.  It took a little while to get the starter hooked to the wiring and wiggled into position and just a few minutes to put the final bolts in.  I hooked the battery back up and it started better than it has for a long time.  After dinner I went out to pull the muffler and discovered the tail pipe was bad also.  I went down to order one and the closest one was in Philadelphia.  I decided to have one made tomorrow in Longview.

Tuesday the 19th.
We headed down to Longview early to see about getting the tail pipe made.  NAPA had recommended  EQ Exhaust and they said it could be done this afternoon.  The next stop was Kaiser to order a new lens for my glasses.  Then we went to Walmart to pick up some supplies Marie needed.  After a stop at Fred Meyer for a few things we went by the muffler shop, they had the tail pipe done and it only cost twenty dollars!  We were back home about noon and I started putting the muffler and tail pipe on.  It went pretty good and it is much quieter now.

Wednesday the 20th.
When I went to check my emails this morning I couldn't connect to the Internet!  I booted it several times and finally called Century Link repair service.  The tech and I went round and round with the modem and he finally decided it had failed, I ended up ordering a new one. After Vera's bible study this morning we took Marie's supplies up to her.  Her door was locked when we got there but Vera found her in the beauty shop getting a perm.  We didn't figure she would like her picture taken with all those curlers so we unloaded and headed home.  The Blazer ran and sounded great the whole trip.  This evening I went out and put some fake windows on the Trimotor.

Thursday the 21st.
Vera had a dental appointment this morning, after it we stopped at Home Depot for the parts to repair the back gutter that got hit by a limb this winter.  We got talking to a guy who does continuous gutters and I ended up putting all the parts back and scheduling the job with him for Friday.  I got the rest of the windows on the Trimotor this evening.

Friday the 22nd.

Elite Renovators was here at eight this morning.  I had a great time watching the gutter being made.

They are putting up the back gutter in this picture.  They sure make it look easy, I would have been days doing it.

Fifty feet of gutter takes a little space to turn around, they had to go out onto the driveway to turn this one.

While they were doing the down spouts I noticed this deer standing in the orchard watching and I got several pictures of it.  While they were doing the front UPS dropped off the new modem, it had a letter with it that said not to hook it up until 8:00 PM on the 22nd.  I started on it at 8:10 and the job went great, I got all the usernames and passwords right the first time.  The house looks much better now, the gutters match the window frames and it really seemed to brighten the appearance.  They were nice guys, I gave them a tour of the shop when they finished and had a good time answering their questions.